Number Adjustments

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NintendoMonopoly said:

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Aj_habfan said:
NPD adjustements I assume.

lol what? Why would ioi adjust for NPD when he has publicly stated he thinks their numbers for April are at odds with everything he has observed?

I dunno. Maybe, because comparing your work to others and then fine tuning yours, is the smart thing to do.

Especially, when that someone else has more data to go on. Just a thought.

Adjustments are indeed a smart, I never said they weren't or even implied it. But that doesn't mean you make adjustments to your data based on something you think is wrong.

Lots of analysts have tons of data about the stock market and lose money for their clients and themselves every day because they were wrong...if you had cause to believe they were wrong about a particular investment you wouldn't invest in it even if you did use their conclusions (drawn from their data) before.

Aside from that there are a lot of sources and reasons to make adjustments to begin with, so I'm not sure why people single out NPD.