If this perceived trend is genuine, then most likely it can be attributed to the numbing effects of SOLs on Virginia's public education.
In a strange inverse of this trend, a genuine community has sprung up around Strongbow Dark Fruits cider, seemingly without the manufacturers doing much of anything at all, to the point that people are getting actual Dark Fruits tattoos on their actual bodies.
Only by looking at a long-term view, over many days, would it be possible to see the genuine trend.
The former trend represented a genuine revolution in how we treated the guilty; the latter trend just reflects our anxieties about possibly executing the innocent.
"It's often not a genuine trend that you're reporting on - even though that's what it looks like in the magazine.
October 29 The WHO says the rate of new Ebola infections in Liberia appears to be declining and could represent a genuine trend.
Sure, this is a styling tip for the brave but with multicoloured hair a genuine trend over the past couple of years, blue does indeed look warm and cosy.
This increase has continued for several years now, so it suggests a genuine trend and indicates that students are both excited by the subjects and feel that they represent a wise career path.
Whether it's lazy marketing or a genuine trend for unhappy, unreliable (and occasionally villainous) anti-heroines, a whole raft of books – many by first-time novelists – have been described as successors to Gillian Flynn's bestseller.
Hard-nosed calculations of this type inform western approaches to other African "one-party democracies", an attitude that could be said to encourage the trend away from genuine multiparty systems, thereby undermining the drive for good governance.
And at least it's better than the #Nowthatchersdead debacle, where someone deliberately misread a hashtag, composed a sarcastic tweet suggesting that it was Cher who had died and watched as people repeated it again and again until a handful of journalists and Ricky Gervais decided that it was a genuine trend, even though it wasn't.
