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<blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 2913802" data-attributes="member: 7737">Xath, from a survey design point of view, your 2A/2B has some (potentially) dangerous issues. Because there is no way to link up the individual respondents from 2A to their responses to 2B (or, indeed, if they even responded to both surveys at all), it is going to be hard to draw conclusions based on this data.For example, if 95% of responses to 2B say &quot;I am male&quot; but only 80% of responses to 2A say &quot;the stereotypical gamer is male&quot;, then what does this mean? It could mean that more women than men replied to 2A, or it could mean that while men are a supermajority of gamers (2B), for some reason they think more women play the game (2A). Or it could mean that a completely different, third group of people responded to 2A (over and above the 95% male group that responded to 2B) thereby skewing the results. Or it could mean something else entirely.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Joshua Randall, post: 2913802, member: 7737"] Xath, from a survey design point of view, your 2A/2B has some (potentially) dangerous issues. Because there is no way to link up the individual respondents from 2A to their responses to 2B (or, indeed, if they even responded to both surveys at all), it is going to be hard to draw conclusions based on this data. For example, if 95% of responses to 2B say "I am male" but only 80% of responses to 2A say "the stereotypical gamer is male", then what does this mean? It could mean that more women than men replied to 2A, or it could mean that while men are a supermajority of gamers (2B), for some reason they think more women play the game (2A). Or it could mean that a completely different, third group of people responded to 2A (over and above the 95% male group that responded to 2B) thereby skewing the results. Or it could mean something else entirely. [/QUOTE]

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