VGChartz Sales Comparison Charts March 2023 Discussion Thread

[Qwark]

haxxiy said:

Zippy6 said:

Yeah I get that, 5 times sales = 400% increase. But I would view "up by five times" to actually mean it's six times sales. It's not one times, it's up five times, so six times. Just as 1 up by 5 would mean 6, and it would need to be up to 5 to mean 5. The wording is a bit weird to me. But I'll take it they actually mean 400% for now. 

Would you view "up by one time" to actually mean a doubling then? By deductive reasoning you should, but that yields zero results on search engines.

One times five is five, not six, after all. Up 'to' makes sense only if there's a confidence interval.

If sales are up 100% it means they have doubled, so if sales are up 200% they have tripled etc. Because the 100% is the initial starting value to begin with.

The formula is initial + change is growth or decline. So in case sale are up one it's 100% + 100% = 200% of the initial. If sales are down 25%, its 100% + -25% = 75% of the initial.

So if in 2022 sales where 100k and sales are up 400% they should be 500k, because 100k is the initial and growth only is what is added.

Last edited by Qwark - on 18 April 2023