The PS4 may be stealing players from Microsoft and Nintendo

[DrDoomz]

ikki5 said:

DrDoomz said:

ikki5 said:
so looking at 0.012% of the install base defines what they all did in the past.... nice logic there

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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics

yeah, I know how stats work but still, with such a small number of people. not even .1%, you can hardly call that considering how there could be a multitute of variables. For example would be age, yes they say they did 7 yr olds but how many? Location, was it uniform all accross the country or was it in pockets. I know with a lot of scientific experiements, if your trials and treatments are not all mixed together with the same environment, usually your data is not very valid especially if there are not multiple replicates.

As the sampling methodology was never mentioned in the article (at least, I don't see where they did), we cannot know for sure how they did their screening or even if they just did basic random sampling. Suffice it to say, tho, Nielsen is a repuabtle stat research company and I am inclined to believe that there is credibility in their research methodology.