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There have been a few studies that say scams, discrimination, racism and bullying will increase when people are forced to use their real name. In this case it's probably because off a different reason, but still.
That’s interesting. Can you link some of the studies?
Shark Attacks are closely related to ice cream sales:
https://www.statology.org/correlation-does-not-imply-causation-examples/
Just wanted to go through the data and see if they didn’t do a statistical stunt