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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 301038" data-attributes="member: 2205">Maybe you haven't.  Certainly in this thread his essay has been pulled many times as "counter-evidence" to my own position.Important distinction.  I agree.Statistical samples don't have to be big to be meaningful.  However, as I (and you) both mentioned the bias in these samples makes them suspect.  Their size isn't so much of a problem, though.  The fact that presumably the ratios of tastes in those samples represent to some extent the ratios of tastes in the whole gamer community is fine for a sample of a few thousand people.  Opinion polls are often based on numbers as small or smaller for populations much larger.  It's not that the rpg.net folks are important per se just that they presumably represent the tastes of gamers at large.Yes, that's true.  Still, Dancey said that the other games in the market were "insignifigant" relative to D&D.  More than 40% isn't insignificant.  And who knows what that ratio is now, though.True, but presumably those same spending habits hold true for all (in print) games equally, so the effect of it should be a wash.</blockquote>