And that's bad because...? Somebody's wrong on the internet?
If not for the imperative to correct people who are wrong on the internet, ENWorld would be a ghost town.
And that's bad because...? Somebody's wrong on the internet?
Nobody has done that.
Prove me wrong.
Right. This was my statistics argument. It's a MASSIVE subset of the audience. WAY WAY WAY beyond what, for example, polling companies use to draw conclusions. It's not PERFECTLY representative, but it is representative in these number of fair generalizations to the general population of D&D players and DMs.
Very. If you know what half the population thinks, and you know exactly what demographic it represents, you can easily adjust to come to some generalized conclusions from it.
Except it's not about us. That's their data. They released some general information about it - more than almost any other company does - but you don't have any entitlement to that kind of data and they are not going to reveal their proprietary data.
I can't I'm too n00b to do that...
JK, For starters there is a thread titled "90% of D&D Games Stop By Level 10; Wizards More Popular At Higher Levels" on the front page of this forum.
Sure, not disputing the value of the data.
I think it's fair to question the data we have been given and the conclusions WotC has made. But as I said before, it makes me wonder why this is being released. What is WotC's goal in providing these graphs?
Frog is. That's what my response is about. You appear to disagree with him. He disputes the value of the data.
This is a key element... the DDB releases have been prefaced several times by saying they get commrnts feedback asking for these.It's not WotC that's providing this—it's the D&DBeyond team. This is data that they collect (and share with WotC) to better understand their consumer base. They probably also think that the data is interesting to the D&DBeyond community (and maybe the D&D community in general).
Personally, I do find it interesting as it tells us about a section of the larger D&D community. Can we extrapolate from this sample to the larger population? Not without error (to say the least), to be sure, but it does allow us to see part of the bigger picture outside our narrow experiences.