| EEPiccolo said: 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. |
oh yeah, that's true, you see them in polls. so since this is a video game site most people have a good understanding of statistics putting such a figure up would be a good thing.
the thing about vgcharts is that different games would have different error bars, because of whatever formula ioi uses. which means it's more than just sampling where he needs to estimate errors on, and it gets complicated.
but then i guess he has repeatedly stated that +/- 10-15% is his target.
the Wii is an epidemic.
