Aielyn on 30 December 2013
| ioi said: So really we are getting into semantics here and how we physically present the data. For simplicity sake, we present the midpoint in the same way that any tracking service does - be it box office figures, billboard sales, NPD, Media Create and so on - there is just one data point provided for each product and that represents the midpoint of the expected range of estimates. It isn't intended to mislead anyone or to make the data seem any more accurate than it is - it is just a standard convention that we apply just like everybody else. It is up to the people who use the data to apply some common sense and understand the limitations. |
Out of curiosity, do you perhaps include Standard Deviation in your VGChartzPro sales data?
If you were going to provide a range, one standard deviation would be the natural choice of range to provide, in my opinion, but since most regular VGChartz users probably wouldn't have studied statistics to any great extent, I'd imagine it would only cause confusion for many... yet I could see it being useful information to those that are paying for the numbers.
