ShadowSnake said:
scottie said:
Galaki said:
Yeah, a survey of 1000 is very... researchy.
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Agreed - and I would like to see how they picked the 1000 people before paying any attention to the number
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you know, everyone is questioning how it was done. i don't disagree, it could've been done poorly and the sample is not representative of the population. but it could just as likely have been.
take it for what it is, a statistic done by some company. why does it have to be anything more? you make it seem like they said, oh this is a definite number and therefore 40% of gt5 sales will lead to ps3 sales for sure.
if you're gonna just start questioning this, then why dyou eat everything else that's fed to you w/o questions? who ever said fish was good for you? why dyou see a dentist every year, do we need to? or even better, global warming, man, does everyone eat that up. and now i'm not saying its not true, but when you're sitting in on a debate, the two sides of the argument know a hell of a lot more than you do, therefore they can spew out to you half-truths all they want. one study that was heavily used to discuss the degrading arctic conditions was credited to 18 researchers. 13 of which we're well-renowned. 6 of which pulled out because they disagreed with the results that were being presented. al gore refused to remove their names because their names being there made the argument more credible, they sued him.
if you're gonna question the statistic, then you can't trust anything that's told you because everyone is out there for their own neck and they'll do what they need to, to make you believe them. If you wanna get a statistic you can trust, go do the study for yourself. you trust yourself i would suppose.
the thread was supposed to be about discussing the possibility (because after all, statistics is all about chance and randomness) of a large increase of ps3 sales due to what is referred to as a "system seller." not to question the study. if you wanna do that, contact the site and bash em all you like
and btw, this was not directed at you, scottie. if you half read my long post, i hope you notice this last line. i'm just talking in general
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You do have a point in that even without being 100% rigorous it can still have some value.
Although to nitpick on some of your examples
I don't eat fish - I'm a vegetarian
I don't visit the dentist once a year, I take care of my own teeth and visit a dentist everyone now and again
I believe in global warming because I have read a lot of scientific studies that explained their methodology and result in sufficient detail to convince me.
And yes, I did read your whole post.
My main complain is that we all know GT5 will be a hardware seller, so if the only conclusion we can draw from the survey is that it will be a hardware seller, then it is useless. The only way it can have some use is if we can use it to make predictions about how many consoles it will sell, and I don't believe we can without more detail
