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I hate that HN is a place where the ignorant simply flaunt their ignorance instead of trying to inform themselves. "According to the Velofollies survey as well

I hate that HN is a place where the ignorant simply flaunt their ignorance instead of trying to inform themselves. "According to the Velofollies survey as well as other sources last year’s [2018] e-bike sales stood at slightly over a quarter million units; some 251,500 to be more precise. This accounts for a big 14.3 percent growth compared to the total of the year before. It makes electric bicycles by far the biggest category of the Belgian market with a market share that stands at close to 50 percent." https://www.bike-eu.com/sales-trends/nieuws/2019/07/market-report-belgium-e-bikes-keep-growing-10136156 https://www.bike-eu.com/sales-trends/nieuws/2019/07/market-r...

ChuckNorris89 7y ago
According to your source that's 50% share of new bike sales in 2018, not market share of all bikes in Belgium. Not the same thing.
- retrovm 7y ago
  Please go find out the definition of "market share".
  - HanayamaTriplet 7y ago
    To add context to your downvotes, it is clear that the author you cite used "market share" in an unusual way (possibly due to a language barrier), since there are certainly more than ~503,000 bicycles in the whole country of Belgium.
    - retrovm 7y ago
      Sure, if you don't know what the term "market share" means then your comment makes perfect sense.
      - derekp7 7y ago
        What would help your case (with regards to downvotes, and for your words to have greater impact) is to convey additional information instead of just repeating the same thing. For example, you could state that "Market share reflects sales of an item over a fiscal period -- which is different from installed base, which reflects the percentage of units that are in current usage". You can even include a pointer to a reference, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installed_Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installed_Base. This way, even if you are technically correct, you can better convey knowledge when it appears that communication isn't occurring.
        retrovm 7y ago
        Yeah but it's 2020 and I decided that just because people are displaying their own ignorance on the Internet doesn't impute upon me the duty to adjust their attitudes. If two fuckwits on HN want to hang around and tell me that I am using the term "market share" in a wrong or unusual way, when they themselves are the ones who obviously don't know what it means, then let them do it. Eventually the accumulated mass of stupidity recorded on this site will sink it.
        dang 7y ago
        Please stop.

ChuckNorris89 7y ago

According to your source that's 50% share of new bike sales in 2018, not market share of all bikes in Belgium. Not the same thing.

retrovm 7y ago
Please go find out the definition of "market share".
- HanayamaTriplet 7y ago
  To add context to your downvotes, it is clear that the author you cite used "market share" in an unusual way (possibly due to a language barrier), since there are certainly more than ~503,000 bicycles in the whole country of Belgium.
  - retrovm 7y ago
    Sure, if you don't know what the term "market share" means then your comment makes perfect sense.
    - derekp7 7y ago
      What would help your case (with regards to downvotes, and for your words to have greater impact) is to convey additional information instead of just repeating the same thing. For example, you could state that "Market share reflects sales of an item over a fiscal period -- which is different from installed base, which reflects the percentage of units that are in current usage". You can even include a pointer to a reference, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installed_Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installed_Base. This way, even if you are technically correct, you can better convey knowledge when it appears that communication isn't occurring.
      - retrovm 7y ago
        Yeah but it's 2020 and I decided that just because people are displaying their own ignorance on the Internet doesn't impute upon me the duty to adjust their attitudes. If two fuckwits on HN want to hang around and tell me that I am using the term "market share" in a wrong or unusual way, when they themselves are the ones who obviously don't know what it means, then let them do it. Eventually the accumulated mass of stupidity recorded on this site will sink it.
        dang 7y ago
        Please stop.