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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9102341" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Sure, if I was making a product and there was a failure, I might look into it before putting it out to the public. But here's the difference. We aren't making the product. We are consuming it. So, since we know for a fact some people will misunderstand, and we know for a fact that all statistical polling data has an error margin... what does finding a single &quot;failure&quot; mean? Nothing. It means nothing, because finding a single failure does not indicate something is wrong with the product, because we EXPECT that there will be a small number of failures. Until you can demonstrate a statistically significant amount, you are using a small sample size to make false predictions. Because as we keep demonstrating, small sample sizes don't tell you anything about the larger product. And we are the consumers, not the producers, so with only a single failure, we cannot declare a fundamental error.Okay. So can you prove that WoTC has never investigated this over the last 10 years? Can you prove that they are ignorant of the fact that they may have some respondents who give junk data? Can you prove that they never account for this, and have no clue how much of a problem this might be? Can you prove that this MUST be a large problem, because we found a single instance of this problem? What you are talking about is business 101. Something even dumb lay-people like me know. So why are we assuming a multi-million dollar company, owned by a multi-billion dollar company has been using this method for a decade WITHOUT DOING THE MOST BASIC QUALITY CONTROL. If this is business 101 under what possible set of ideas do we imagine a company like Hasbro has no conception that they should have done this?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9102341, member: 6801228"] Sure, if I was making a product and there was a failure, I might look into it before putting it out to the public. But here's the difference. We aren't making the product. We are consuming it. So, since we know for a fact some people will misunderstand, and we know for a fact that all statistical polling data has an error margin... what does finding a single "failure" mean? Nothing. It means nothing, because finding a single failure does not indicate something is wrong with the product, because we EXPECT that there will be a small number of failures. Until you can demonstrate a statistically significant amount, you are using a small sample size to make false predictions. Because as we keep demonstrating, small sample sizes don't tell you anything about the larger product. And we are the consumers, not the producers, so with only a single failure, we cannot declare a fundamental error. Okay. So can you prove that WoTC has never investigated this over the last 10 years? Can you prove that they are ignorant of the fact that they may have some respondents who give junk data? Can you prove that they never account for this, and have no clue how much of a problem this might be? Can you prove that this MUST be a large problem, because we found a single instance of this problem? What you are talking about is business 101. Something even dumb lay-people like me know. So why are we assuming a multi-million dollar company, owned by a multi-billion dollar company has been using this method for a decade WITHOUT DOING THE MOST BASIC QUALITY CONTROL. If this is business 101 under what possible set of ideas do we imagine a company like Hasbro has no conception that they should have done this? [/QUOTE]

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