"Skyrocket" is a word people use when they don't have the data to support their claim, but want to make it sound as extreme as possible.
When I hear "skyrocket" I think "several orders of magnitude in a very short time". But the source of the quote with skyrocket, basically admits that they didn't have any quantitative evidence to support a massive change in incidents.
Remember: reality is banal. Things are far better explained by sampling error, bias, and base rates, than they are by sudden, dramatic shifts caused by a single factor.
When I hear "skyrocket" I think "several orders of magnitude in a very short time". But the source of the quote with skyrocket, basically admits that they didn't have any quantitative evidence to support a massive change in incidents.
Remember: reality is banal. Things are far better explained by sampling error, bias, and base rates, than they are by sudden, dramatic shifts caused by a single factor.