Renar on 29 January 2008
| Username2324 said: Well, perhaps you shouldn't put so much faith in them, after all "sample sizes are small compared to professional tracking", but anyways I don't want to anger the beast, my original question was answered. |
On the other hand, NPD's numbers are not gospel either since they don't track all of the largest retail outlets. Most here, I would say, are more interested in the trends that ioi's data shows versus whether the rounding of a tenth of one percent should go to this console versus that console. Or even to both.
One other comment, as mentioned before about statistics. Small sizes can give fairly accurate results. If you disagree with this, then you would have to ignore 99.99% (or higher) of all polls that sample only 1% (say, 50,000) out of a population base of 5 million. Which for most polls would be a huge sampling of the population that the poll is about.
Torturing the numbers. Hear them scream.
