GTA is falling from the top 2 places in gamerankings

[SilentWolf]

Picko said:

SilentWolf said:

Picko said:
Firstly, in statistical terms OoT does not really have enough reviews for those reviews to be a reliable indicator of the games quality. Worth noting that basically no game does but the like ot OoT are particularly bad and no real meaning can be obtained by looking at the "average".

Secondly, even looking at the "raw" scores there is very little difference between any of the top ten. This is particularly so given the first point I made, there is no statistically significant difference between their raw scores and no conclusions can be made about which game is better. Sad I know.

I thought that in statistics you only needed 31(random..ish) samples to be able to safely say that you have enough to represent the whole.  If true that would put OoT at (barely) enough reviews to say that its current percentage is a good representation.

You can get by with that number but you'd rather not have too. Ideally you'd have at least 120 reviews (If I recall correctly, I don't have my books with me at the minute). The lower the number of reviews the wider the confidence intervals must be. My analysis was flawed because I applied an identical confidence interval to all games (95% confidence interval, represented by +- 1.96 standard deviations from the mean). Had I not done that the OoT result would've been a lot weaker (and so would the other games but not to the same extent).

I got the 31 sample requirement from my stats textbook, and that is the bare minimum to be able to fairly safely say that one should be close to the whole with an estimation.

By what you said then, no game(according to gamerankings) has enough reviews to have an ideal representation; The 360 version of GTA IV doesn't even have half of 120.  I know that you said 120 was just the ideal number, but having less than half of the ideal number, to me, would imply that there just isn't enough information(# of samples) to get a very reasonable and probable answer.

I do have to ask though to anyone who may know; about how many reviewers were there when OoT was released as compared to now?  I ask this because if there were simply not many reviewers then as compared to now, I don't really think it would be fair to count the small number of reviews against OoT as much since more reviewers just weren't there.  This doesn't completely excuse OoT for 32 reviews, but it would explain why.