Why are my numpy polyfit results not realistic? Question: I use the following code to fit a 2 degree polynomial to my 2D data: deg = 1 fig, ax = plt.subplots(1,facecolor="white") fig.set_size_inches(5,4) x = [0.843291,0.873922,0.903581,0.93344,0.961478,0.990968, 1.019434,1.047562,1.075373,1.102883,1.130106,1.157059, 1.183751,1.210195,1.236399,1.262376,1.288134,1.313679, 1.339022,1.364167,1.389123,1.413896,1.438492,1.462916, 1.505685,1.57998,1.690303,1.730423,1.761613,1.791332, 1.63034,1.652749,1.675848,1.698821,1.721672,1.744402] y = [291000000,291000000,292000000,291000000,290000000,290000000, 290000000,290000000,289000000,289000000,288000000,288000000, 288000000,287000000,287000000,287000000,287000000,286000000, 286000000,286000000,285000000,285000000,284000000,284000000, 284000000,283000000,283000000,282000000,282000000,281000000, 280000000,280000000,279000000,278000000,277000000,277000000] ax.scatter(x, y,label = "data", c="black", alpha = …