| Viper1 said: According to a May 2008 poll by the Davie-Brown Index (DBI), Pac-Man is the best-known of all videogame characters, recognized by 94% of American consumers. Mario comes a close second with 93%, http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/7000/most-recognizable-videogame-character I'm willing to bet that since 5 years have passed that Mario has surpassed Pac-Man to top the list. Since 2008, Mario has been in more than a dozen games that have together sold well over 100 million units. Pac-Man has been in almost as many games but has sell barely 1 million units. |
Also, as I mentioned earlier, there are many factors for this statistic. Just now I checked up on DBI, and I'm not sure how well established they are considering how little you find when looking them up. Either way, no matter how professional your polls or statistics are, there's always a margin of error. Having a difference of 1% between Pacman and Mario is definitely enough to make it possible that Mario could have been the winner. It isn't 100% determined, and more of a 50/50 either way when the percentage difference is so small.
Another thing is that guinness doesn't link anything about the poll, so we don't know their sample size or how they conducted the poll. Another issue is that they used the word "American Consumers" which gives away both that they are only Americans and that "Consumers" constricts who exactly is counted. Consumers could simply be those who follow DBI polls or people who play video games.
Then there's the statistical biases that could be present. Where did they do the polling? Which medium did they use? How did they word their questions? Did they randomly select the people? Did the people go to them? Many questions, no answers. The guy who was arguing with me earlier just doesn't want to admit that there are all these problems and thus, there is no clarity for Pac-man being the winner. If anything, there's more proof that Mario is.
