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jonop on 30 January 2010
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Kasz216 said:
BigBoobieHead said:
Kasz216 said:
fxa5209 said:
Cant believe that this web site would question its integrity with such a huge adjustment. This is not even within any kind of error margin. Serioulsy, i am starting to doubt any number here.

1.1 million divided by 31.21 gives me an error of 3.5%.

1.1 million divided by 13.89 gives an error of 8%.

Both are within VGC's margin of error of 10%.

 

It's an adjustment going back... pretty much forever as they refine their process.  So yeah... it is within the margin of error.

That's spin and you know it. If your going to be fussy like that you should know that probably the majority of software on this site is out of the margin or error. Also, if a console sells 100M, do you think a 10M error is acceptable just because it's in the 'Margin of Error?'

How is that "spin".  It's percentages... using the number based over the timespan given.

Also.. if a console sells 100M and their is a 10M error... is that acceptable?  Only if you have a hard count of every system sold.  Since that would be the entire swing of your margin of error.

Bit if you knew in fact that 110 or 90 million consoles were sold then... yeah.  That's acceptable.

That's what a margin of error is... a margin... a percentage.  Just because a number gets higher doesn't mean that the acceptability of the margin of error gets lower.


Being 1 off on a sale of 10 is no different then being 10 Million off a sale of 100 Million.

Hell... i'd say being 1 off a sale of 10 is WORSE... I mean your only tracking 10 things... vs you know... 100 Million.

 

The site wouldn't ever be off by 10 million though because of shipment figures. If there were no shipment figures then a 10 million error of 100 million consoles would be acceptable although at the extreme end of the error margin, so unilikely.