Did XB One dominate on Black Friday? Doubt it

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dj2one said:

All these articles about XB One  dominating Black Friday reference an InfoScout report. Sounds like they arent really the most reliable method to claim XB One is dominating.

"But then you have this little Black Friday sales story making the rounds, which suggests the Xbox One won Black Friday at U.S. retail, and by a significant margin. It comes from InfoScout, a beta startup that launched last year and claims it can track Black Friday sales in real time.

Before we go over the numbers, a word on InfoScout's methods, which sound a little like a page from a voodoo cookbook: a roux of "computer vision & crowdsourcing ... natural language processing & machine learning ... social media & big data analytics" and apps that encourage customers to voluntarily snap pictures of receipts in trade for cash- or charity-related incentives; this, says InfoScout, lets the company provide "a nationally projectable sample of American shopping behavior." But survey methodology is tricky business, and sometime what sounds like voodoo isn't voodoo at all.

Without getting too much into the weeds here, the word you want to pay attention to in that last quote is "projectable," which means something very different from "representative." Since InfoScout's survey results are based on voluntary data (provided by a subset of the population with the sort of technology necessary to furnish said data), they're not necessarily representative of the general population, even with formula fixes designed to shore things up. Bear that in mind."

http://techland.time.com/2013/12/02/did-microsofts-xbox-one-really-beat-sonys-playstation-4-in-black-friday-sales/

I was out on Black Friday and saw about 16 XB Ones just sitting around and no one buying them. Dont get me wrong I'm not trying to say XB One is a flop or anything but the articles I keep seeing come up about them killing on Black Friday I think are an blown out of proprtion.

Isn't this ancedotal evidance?