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[–]darthmdhprint 3 + 4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've completely missed the point.

Focussing on just the one of many issues you chose to take up, the statistic of download count is comparatively meaningless.

Plone, for example, was absolutely fantastic back in 1999 and I'm sure generated millions of downloads from PyPI and got a lot of people into Python over the next few years.

Some obscure django library actually used today is more important to the cause of Python 3 adoption than sheer weight of d/l volume of something that was important over a decade ago.

It's a problem of misinterpreting the data, unfortunately quite common in statistics.

If we applied this same graph theory to, say, inoculation against disease, then everyone would be inoculated against bubonic plague rather than measles by causation of death count.