@mrstickball
they would probably take #1 spot for a month or 2 from wii(not DS)but then fall under it again

So are the software numbers going up today or not?

yep ioi said they would come up today,i think in a couple of hours

DS dominates "again?" What does that mean? That implies it stopped and started "again." Oh it never stopped. It never will. See you at 500 billion DS! We love you!

Nice all around. I think Wii and DS showed the largest drops but of course the larger the increase due to something on one week then the larger the dropoff of the next week.

Not to mention Wii is reliant specifically on how much is shipped. But what yall think. A consisten 500k a week shipped in America for Wii till the week after Christmas?

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You are being sarcastic, I hope... You cannot exist in life without statistics. If you are serious, maybe you should check out a book called "Against the Gods". It is a nice work on the history of statistics and how it brought mankind into the modern age. The gist of it is that, before statistics, everything was the "will of the gods". Today we know that if we roll a six-sided die, we have a 1/6 chance of rolling a 6. The gods didn't will the 6. It was chance and statistics predicts it.

Everything in any modern manufacturing facility is using process controls which use statistics for quality control. Insurance rates are based on statistics. The price you pay for a stamp is based on statistics. NPD is based on statistics... and so on...
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1/ you are mainly talking about probability based on statistic for the assurance rate, the 6 sides die, on the stamp (just to put words on the things).

2/ Even probability is a limited concept (like ur example of the die)
I will use ur sentence :
'''The gods didn't will the 6. It was chance and statistics predicts it.'''

no, statistic dont predict it. It give a score for each possibility (to make a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6) that is called probability. At then end, when u launch ur die, u cannot say before the launch which side will be on the top. U cant predict.

If u want to predict, I mean really predict it, u need to have a complete knowledge about ur system (all the parameters at the beginning of the experiment and their evolution during the experiment). Then u are able to predict.

3/ when I say statistic is BS, I m mostly talking about the use of them, like if they were perfect. for example, about statistical tests, u can make them say whatever u want, u just have to modify the parameters of the test.

4/ """You cannot exist in life without statistics"""

It is not because statistics are everywhere in our society that they are good.
According to me, statistic may have huge bad consequences for the next generations, specially the combo genetic+statistic that could be a disaster for our health politic.

5/ An example of statistic in our life :

Fish have some mercure in their blood du to pollution. they are potentially dangerous for human being. According to searcher, if a fish have more than 0.05g/mL* of mercure in the blood (*let's imagine), it is "potentially" dangerous.
The problem is that ALL THE FISH have more than 0.05g/mL of mercure in their blood, in others words, they are all dangerous du to human pollution.
The other problem is that fishermen need to sell their fish or the economy of fish will suffer from this.

so what to do ?

==> ALARA concept

(As Low As Reasonnable Acceptable, something like this, also called "precaution princip")

u make a law that fit more or less with the both side of the problem :

If a fish have more than 0.1g/mL of mercure in the blood, fisher cannot sell it.
If it is less than 0.1g/mL, then u can sell it.
in fact, u take the risk to sell the fish with average dose of mercure (from 0.05 to 0.09g/mL) because fishermen cannot afford economically to throw away all the fishs they ... fish.

5/ (Health) assurance using statistic :

A : "so you have SIDA ?"
B : "yes I m seropositive"
A " hum, I think it will not be possible"
B : "but u know according to doctor, I m completely healthy, see these documents, I m not sick"
A :" yes but accoring to our policies, we cannot assure you ..."

That is how we use statistics.

6/ last but not least,

Racism
is based on statistic
you assimilate 1 black to the average view you have about black
Of course, in general, the average view is a bad view in the case of racism.
In a way, it is a safe behaviour since the probality that it fits with the average view is elevated because it is the average view, that is why so many people use it !!
but, in other hand, you judge someone before knowing him ...

7/ At the end, yes statistic can be usefull,
But in our society, the over use of statistic allow to make some "mass judgement" that consider the population AND not the people themselves.
I consider it is very "bad" use of statistic because it is never totally safe to base something on statistic ...

8/ ultimate example lol:

75% of the people with the desease X also have the version "a" of the gene Y
25% of the people with the desease X also have the version "b" of the gene Y

(we consider that the sample is huge (lets imagine 60 Millions of people) and we consider that the general population (healthy population) meanly (80%)have the version "b" of the gene alpha)

so can we conclude that the version "a" is linked to the desease X ?

well, even to me it is obvious that there is a sort of link between the version "a" of the gene Y and the desease X.
I dont need a statistical test to see this.

but can we consider that when u have the version "a" of the gene Y, u will developpe the desease X ??

well, the probabilityt to be sick is improved if you have the version "a", that is obvious, but u may also not devellop the desease.
In fact, we are not sure. We have to make a bet like in poker.

At the end, u have a safe way (human with "a" version will be sick) and a less safe way (human with the "a" version will not be sick), but u dont know which way will happen ...

9/ Statistic tool is interesting but far from being perfect.

Some american society already allow u (for some 100 dollars) to test if ur cat will devellop an heart desease or not.
With the result, u choose which cat u want to make baby and which one u dont want ... in fact, that is called genetic selection.

how long before it spreads to human being ?

"look, this genitor, based on his genetic map, has 85% of being homosexual.
I know he is not, but maybe his future sons will be !!
hum, ... I should avoid him ..."

10/ nothing personnal kn :))
(just to have 10 points)
(going to bed now)

I am only interested in Uncharted's numbers. Don't really care about anything else.

^^^^ I wanna see Uncharted numbers too, wonder how it held up this week, hopefully good.

The Wii will not do 500 a week in the US, in order for that to happen Nintendo would have to have a hidden stock pile or something. 1.8 million a month is about 450,000 available world wide a week, but I think nintendo had a stock pile because the wii was not doing that much before Nov.

where the hell is stof!
hurry up and unban me (please)