Not even that, the prompt used is "Looking only at the years 2022 and 2023, what would a quadratic regression predict for 2024" as mentioned in the appendix.
So quadratic regression makes it sound all fancy, but with two data points, it's literally just "extend the line straight". So the 2024 prediction is essentially meaningless.
So quadratic regression makes it sound all fancy, but with two data points, it's literally just "extend the line straight". So the 2024 prediction is essentially meaningless.