Does the World Cup matter?

I can't tell if this post is facetious or not. People who watch the world cup at bars are "hooligans" and you're "surprised" they live in your neighborhood of "otherwise respectable people"? And the conclusion of this post is that the world cup "matters" because of a statistically insignificant drop in your company's highly skewed sampling of productivity data? Only on HN.

I for one must have watched at least 50 of the 64 games, so I did not need the graphs to know that the World Cup matters.

Yes, but not for any of the reasons that RescueTime said it does.

Doesn't rescuetime take note of what's running as the most active process anyways? I bet when people were watching the world cup on their rescuetime installed computer, that window is not always active and would have it in the background or a second monitor, which means it's hard to predict anyways. Moreover, obviously there are more football fans in europe and the good games were on during evening (GMT'ish) by when most would probably be home or at a pub anyways.

I write embedded software for TVs and have 2 40+inch TVs on my desk (in addition to my monitors) we watched every game on almost every TV in the office.