Destiny 1st Month Annyversary Stats (Avg. 3.2 million players per day)

[ethomaz]

Vena said:

PR Math is an amazing thing, especially when its blatantly miscalculated misrepresented:
The average player plays Destiny 1.8 times a day.
The average player has played Destiny 20.9 times.

These numbers contradict one another, did no one at Bungie bother to check? The numbers are literally impossible if they are using the same "average player". In a month, based on the first number, the "average player" would have played 54 times. Based on the second number, the "average player" played 0.7 times a day. Obviously they used different calculations which is a very annoying thing to see, I hate shit like this.

Anyone who uses "averages" to tell you something needs to burn in statistics-hell for lying.

----- Math Asside -----

For anyone curious, these two numbers together mean that the "average" is skewed from a heavy load. The average of the first number is calculated over all players, the average of the second number is calculated over 30 days. Had the first average been more a median than an average, you'd have a more steady line in the second number, leading to an overall larger average than 20.9 times. Obviously its not a median though, nor is it near the median in fact (as you can tell by the fact that 20.9<<54) this means that both numbers are bloated somewhere (think a histogram with a huge spike somewhere), the average ends up being very different from the median and we have an askew graph.

Actually... why did they even publish these numbers.

They do the avg per day and sum it for the 30 days...

Day 1: 0.5 avg

Day 2: 0.8 avg

Day 3: 1.1 avg

Day 4: 0.9 avg

...

 

For the 1 day they do the overall average... that is the difference.