[skeptoid]

-.. . . if the fraction decreased by 5% during the first 100 years of that 150 years and then increased by 1% during the last 50 years of that 150 years, wouldn't you have a situation where the fraction has not increased in the last 150 years, but HAS increased in the last 50? .....

Yes, I was wrong in my statement;  the fraction could indeed have remained constant or decreased over the last 150 years, but increased during the last 50 years.


I opined in haste.

You see, I  was startled by what I thought was a snake in the grass in the form of a hockey stick, and I lashed out in reactionary fear and disgust.  (I also shout epithets at newscasts and liberals on C-SPAN)

I despise hockey sticks.

 

[skeptoid]

.. . . if the fraction decreased by 5% during the first 100 years of that 150 years and then increased by 1% during the last 50 years of that 150 years, wouldn't you have a situation
where the fraction has not increased in the last 150 years, but HAS increased in the last 50?

Yes, I was wrong in my statement; the fraction could indeed have remained constant or decreased over the last 150 years,
but increased during the last 50 years.

I opined in haste.

You see, I was startled by what I thought was a snake in the grass in the form of a hockey stick, and I lashed out in reactionary fear and disgust.
(I also shout epithets at newscasts and liberals on C-SPAN)

I despise hockey sticks.