ioi speaks out about ergh "VGC analysts"

[Lawlight]

Max King of the Wild said:

Lawlight said:

Aielyn said:

Lawlight said:
2000 data points for worldwide numbers? Well, that would expect that big inaccuracies.

If we assume a reasonably unbiased sampling for those 2000 data points, then you would expect a margin of error at 95% confidence of 2.2%, assuming an infinite population. Smaller for the real population. That is, 95% of the time you would expect the random sample's mean to be within 2.2% of the real mean.

Seriously, if you don't understand basic statistics, don't get involved in this discussion, you're in over your head.

I don't care how you try to justify it with statistics - 2000 data points will not give you anywhere near accurate enough data - but we've seen that already.

I must have been incorrect with the 2000 data points. I thought ioi said that figure earlier in the thread but he is saying he didnt. Still, I take SW sales with a grain of salt on this site and I started to when Sven said those things in 2009. I started seeing a lot of things when I looked that didn't make sense.

It's not that I don't care for the figures and think no one should. Thats not it. I just cant stand the people who take them as gosspel and try to use it to prove points. When it becomes a focal point in an arguement it gets kinda annoying. 

In any case, software numbers are often proven to be off when the npd report is released and gaf starts getting the numbers.