Comment basic problems with this idea (Score 1) 149
1). Figures are going to be really skewered by the fact that people who will download and use a "download faster !" utility are a subset of the population whos behavior differs from the rest of the population.
2). Unless these people are actually collecting details about financial transactions done over the web (that cannot be legal right ?), the figures they get will be page hits and sites visited which does not really correlate to actual sales figures.
3). How good are their statistical methodologies, you can find fairly strong corrilations between any two sets of data by chosing the right stat functions.
4). Don't we have enough trend indicators already that are far more accurate than spyware collected date ?
5). Of course if they actually collected credit card numbers and looked up transactions then they would have better results. Anybody want to tell them that ? :-)
2). Unless these people are actually collecting details about financial transactions done over the web (that cannot be legal right ?), the figures they get will be page hits and sites visited which does not really correlate to actual sales figures.
3). How good are their statistical methodologies, you can find fairly strong corrilations between any two sets of data by chosing the right stat functions.
4). Don't we have enough trend indicators already that are far more accurate than spyware collected date ?
5). Of course if they actually collected credit card numbers and looked up transactions then they would have better results. Anybody want to tell them that ?
