Game Reviews: Do They Matter?

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Questions:

1. Make some predictions about what types of games have a higher Game Rankings Score and also sold more Units. Support your answer.

2. Make some predictions about what types of games have a lower Game Ranking Score and also sold less Units. Support your answer.

3. Looking at the first graph, is there a relationship between Game Rankings Score and Units Sold? If so, what type of relationship is this? Support your answer.

4. In the "Game" bar type in 5 of your favorite games and list the Game Name, Units Sold, Average Game Ratings Score, Developer and Country. Do you see a trend among the game you have chosen. If so, what is this trend?

5. On this graph what does the zero represent when looking at the number of Units Sold?

6. What do you predict the dashed line represents on the graph?

7. Looking at the second graph there is a dashed line does this represent a trend in the data? If so, why?

8. Make a table from 1998 to 2011 with the number of Units Sold and Average Game Ranking Score.

9. From the table in question 8 what do you notice about the data trend? Does it support your answer to question 7? If not, why do you think the graph is misleading?

10. Explain why for 2011 the Average Game Ranking Score is high, but barely any Units have sold?