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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5382313" data-attributes="member: 8158"><p>If the reasoning here is that WotC should simply look at the poll results and then proceed to fast-track whatever rates highest while backburnering whatever rated lowest, then that's just a rather facile way to interpret the data. This isn't "Dancing with the Stars". <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Looking at Bagpuss's two remarks quoted above, we can easily see how the results of a poll can be skewed without even really trying. In the poll of subscribed players, 67% of voters showed an interest in the VTT. That's two out of three subscribers. Not too shabby, really. So, Bagpuss emphasizes that "it's the lowest proportion", i.e. focusing on overall ranking and dismissing proportion.</p><p></p><p>In the poll of unsubscribed players, OTOH, Bagpuss's response focuses on the fact that it's "less than one-half", which is placing an importance on proportion that was previously dismissed. It also mentions that it came in "behind virtually everything else", so ranking is still a big deal, but the small margin of difference within the ranking (10% between the highest-ranking and the VTT) is not.</p><p></p><p>What the results of this poll really say to a team of marketing guys is...well, foremost it says that they gotta figure out a better way to do polls, because "over 4,000" doesn't represent much of their audience, particularly the unsubscribed. </p><p></p><p>But so it goes with many polls, and that is why the inferences drawn from them need to be broad. In this case, there's really nothing hands-down clobbering anything else, with only a 16 and 15% margin, respectively, separating the highest from the lowest. What they can tell from this is that amongst subscribers there's a general interest in getting any and all of those features, and that many of the non-subscribers aren't that interested in subscribing regardless of what they have to offer. </p><p></p><p>And this data is just one factor that bears into consideration. It shouldn't be sole element defining their mission statement even if it actually had broad indicators.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Felon, post: 5382313, member: 8158"] If the reasoning here is that WotC should simply look at the poll results and then proceed to fast-track whatever rates highest while backburnering whatever rated lowest, then that's just a rather facile way to interpret the data. This isn't "Dancing with the Stars". :) Looking at Bagpuss's two remarks quoted above, we can easily see how the results of a poll can be skewed without even really trying. In the poll of subscribed players, 67% of voters showed an interest in the VTT. That's two out of three subscribers. Not too shabby, really. So, Bagpuss emphasizes that "it's the lowest proportion", i.e. focusing on overall ranking and dismissing proportion. In the poll of unsubscribed players, OTOH, Bagpuss's response focuses on the fact that it's "less than one-half", which is placing an importance on proportion that was previously dismissed. It also mentions that it came in "behind virtually everything else", so ranking is still a big deal, but the small margin of difference within the ranking (10% between the highest-ranking and the VTT) is not. What the results of this poll really say to a team of marketing guys is...well, foremost it says that they gotta figure out a better way to do polls, because "over 4,000" doesn't represent much of their audience, particularly the unsubscribed. But so it goes with many polls, and that is why the inferences drawn from them need to be broad. In this case, there's really nothing hands-down clobbering anything else, with only a 16 and 15% margin, respectively, separating the highest from the lowest. What they can tell from this is that amongst subscribers there's a general interest in getting any and all of those features, and that many of the non-subscribers aren't that interested in subscribing regardless of what they have to offer. And this data is just one factor that bears into consideration. It shouldn't be sole element defining their mission statement even if it actually had broad indicators. [/QUOTE]
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