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<blockquote data-quote="xaosseed" data-source="post: 9068496" data-attributes="member: 7025804">I'm going to briefly stop in to say glad people find this interesting - most folk are approaching this with what I think is the right amount of 'this is a better one of the not-great data sets we typically see'. The entirety of what I said about the forum data is &quot;Compare this with the choppiness and changeability in forum respondents where we see more variability in favourite character classes&quot; - I am not sure what &quot;wild claims&quot; are being read out of that. I was trying to get across the data is noisy (as expected for small samples) where the bigger surveys are surprisingly stable over time. Happy to take suggestions on how to convey that in a more easily understood way.Also, I fully agree that any single one of these surveys is deeply questionable on its own, even if you pile enough of them together like this all that can be said is that there are these hints of patterns - nothing more. After all, we are never going to see a good, detailed survey with all the questions we might want asked.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="xaosseed, post: 9068496, member: 7025804"] I'm going to briefly stop in to say glad people find this interesting - most folk are approaching this with what I think is the right amount of 'this is a better one of the not-great data sets we typically see'. The entirety of what I said about the forum data is [I]"Compare this with the choppiness and changeability in forum respondents where we see more variability in favourite character classes" [/I]- I am not sure what "wild claims" are being read out of that. I was trying to get across the data is noisy (as expected for small samples) where the bigger surveys are surprisingly stable over time. Happy to take suggestions on how to convey that in a more easily understood way. Also, I fully agree that any single one of these surveys is deeply questionable on its own, even if you pile enough of them together like this all that can be said is that there are these hints of patterns - nothing more. After all, we are never going to see a good, detailed survey with all the questions we might want asked. [/QUOTE]

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