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Did Groupon investors just get stuffed with a turkey? (gigaom.com)
5 points by ila on Nov 27, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Sometimes I feel like sports commentary consists people cooking up stories to explain a random number generator.

Even the dumbest sports commentary outshines this article, which consists of 500 words attempting to explain a company's entirety based on a two week price fluctuation based on market whim (because there was no news regarding the company)


I really wish that articles like this would quit using a non-zero based y axis graph to illustrate a drop. It looks dramatic but masks the actual percentage drop.


Indeed! I always joke about financial graphs using 'opening value' (or whatever) as a base: if they used a 0-based graph, financial panics wouldn't happen.




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