Google is showing a steep drop off how often my state colleges are mentioned in printed text. Why could this be? Is this all of education?
Posted by ItsStory
Google is showing a steep drop off how often my state colleges are mentioned in printed text. Why could this be? Is this all of education?
Posted by ItsStory
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wrong sub but good question. I’m not sure where this belongs
Follows the population growth of the state along with athletics, the drop off is die to less printed things.
there is no data for 1920, there is no data beyond 2020?
Not totally correlate, but there was a massive florida college football inter-rivalry and scandals throughout the 90s to mid 2000s. Lots of news coverage and this peak corresponds pretty well.
would be interesting to compare to UM / university of Miami and USF / UF / Gators / Canes / Seminoles
Similar trends are visible (although a bit less extreme) for Penn State University, University of Michigan, but not for Harvard or Columbia University which remain roughly stable, and also not for non-US university, most of which seem to be showing a steady upwards trend.
I’m not sure why this is the case, but it’s definitely interesting. I think it’s got to do mostly with the US college sporting culture. My guess is that during the early 2000s there was a peak in sport magazines printed which then rapidly declined. Which was the main or only source of press for the more obscure universities, while the bigger or more culturally significant universities had other sources of press as well.