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Mr.Playstation said:

Ever heard of an outlier. That's exactly what the WII was, it was an outlier in a sense that the WII obtained the biggest casual audience any Nintendo console has done/will ever do. When carrying out an experiment, just because you have one outlier doesn't mean that suddenly the whole experiment shift towards that outlier but rather that it is quietly disregarded as something which had gone wrong in the experiment and shouldn't effect the final conclusion of that experiment.

 

Except the "outlier" here comprises 16.5% of your data. That's far too significant to just dismiss out of hand. This isn't just a few weeks here or there, it's an entire generation.

Like Rol said, you're basically just ignoring anything that isn't convenient to your claim. If you're going to compare this to an experiment, then what your doing is something known as 'fishing' for data. Which means that you're looking for data to match your claim, rather than the other way around.



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