Yvain comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Yvain 26 October 2014 06:05PM

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Comment author: Yvain 02 November 2014 01:52:17AM 2 points [-]

I stated that all disputes would be resolved by Wikipedia, and here is Wikipedia's verdict on the matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_games

Comment author: James_Miller 02 November 2014 01:58:27AM 3 points [-]
Comment author: ike 02 November 2014 02:10:40AM 1 point [-]

Well the question did say computer game ...

Comment author: James_Miller 02 November 2014 02:43:02AM 1 point [-]

Which is different from PC games.

Comment author: Lumifer 02 November 2014 02:00:53AM 3 points [-]

The question in the survey is:

What is the best-selling computer game of all time?

"computer game" != "PC game"

Comment author: VAuroch 02 November 2014 10:56:18PM *  -1 points [-]

"computer game" == "PC game"

"video game" != "PC game"

Comment author: Lumifer 03 November 2014 12:54:26AM 3 points [-]

Not in my usage of these terms, but YMMV, of course.

Comment author: see 02 December 2014 11:55:36PM 0 points [-]

The contention that "'computer games', as defined by Wikipedia" is "PC games" is, of course, true.

However, did you deliberately intend that people who knew with high confidence Tetris was (by far) the best-selling game played on computers (as computers are defined by Wikipedia) would get caught by not knowing that Wikipedia redirects "computer game" to "PC game" rather than to "video game"?