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<blockquote data-quote="TheSleepyKing" data-source="post: 4440907" data-attributes="member: 63491">I don’t think the poll is meaningless or worthless. It tells us, out of all ENworld readers who cared to respond to the poll, this is the proportion who have and who haven’t moved to 4e. Judgements on how much ENworld represents the RPG community as a whole may make the poll more or less useful in your eyes, but the poll isn’t inaccurate.&nbsp;There’s been no evidence of vote rigging, only the proposition that it’s theoretically possible. If there had been vote rigging, there would be a) more responses and b) less consistent results over the life of the poll. In fact, the poll results seem very consistent from its inception until now, with no major spikes one way or the other. (Also, I can't for the life of me understand why somebody would rig the results.)&nbsp;What I think we are getting from a lot of responders here is a certain amount of cognitive dissonance. As in “I can’t believe that many people don’t agree with me! The poll must therefore be wrong.” As I said, I don’t know how well the poll represents the public at large, but it seems a pretty accurate gauge of feeling here at ENworld.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheSleepyKing, post: 4440907, member: 63491"] I don’t think the poll is meaningless or worthless. It tells us, out of all ENworld readers who cared to respond to the poll, this is the proportion who have and who haven’t moved to 4e. Judgements on how much ENworld represents the RPG community as a whole may make the poll more or less useful in your eyes, but the poll isn’t inaccurate. There’s been no evidence of vote rigging, only the proposition that it’s theoretically possible. If there had been vote rigging, there would be a) more responses and b) less consistent results over the life of the poll. In fact, the poll results seem very consistent from its inception until now, with no major spikes one way or the other. (Also, I can't for the life of me understand why somebody would rig the results.) What I think we are getting from a lot of responders here is a certain amount of cognitive dissonance. As in “I can’t believe that many people don’t agree with me! The poll must therefore be wrong.” As I said, I don’t know how well the poll represents the public at large, but it seems a pretty accurate gauge of feeling here at ENworld. [/QUOTE]

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