A suggestion to ioi

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Lingyis said:
be it 12328 or 12300, they're just estimates. i'd like to see an error bar--an interval of confidence for instance (90% or whatever).

NPD nor those japanese tracking agencies put out error bars, probably because it's less easy to understand, but they all should.

Actualy, they're very easy to understand.  You see them in polls all the time.

I suspect the tracking agencies don't publish confidence intervals because they don't want to make it obvious that, even with their huge sample set, their numbers are still just estimates.