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<blockquote data-quote="Jedi_Solo" data-source="post: 4293507" data-attributes="member: 40245">Short Answer:There are lies, d***ed lies and statistics.Long Answer - and with all due respect to this site as a whole:A single EnWorld poll is hardly proof of anything, except maybe that internet polls exist.&nbsp; They can be fun and half of the ones I have responded to I went into the thread just to see if there were any funny answers.There are professional companies that try to be an scientific as they can in order to gather information, and then there are collage level statistic classes to determine what the Margin of Error is, and that is based off of multiple things such as: Questions Asked, People Polled, Order Of Questions Asked (not making that up), How THey Were Asked (by phone, etc) and Time Of Day.It is quite possable that some of these internet polls are designed by professional pollsters.&nbsp; Ask me about any one particular poll and I'd hazard to guess the answer is 'no.'&nbsp; At the very least who knows who will actually answer them.&nbsp; The people that visit EnWorld are a small subset of D&amp;D gamers, let alone those people that have actually signed up and answered the poll in question.That said; if he had used as proof 'six different polls including ones at Site A, Site B and EnWorld' I think he would have much more leverage in his statements.&nbsp; He repeated the 39% amount multiple times to back up his statement.&nbsp; That was taken from one internet poll.&nbsp; If that 39% was an average from multiple polls it might have more weight with me.I do agree that WotC dropped the ball on the marketing - at least certain aspects of the marketing.&nbsp; I just don't his 39% is an indication of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jedi_Solo, post: 4293507, member: 40245"] Short Answer: There are lies, d***ed lies and statistics. Long Answer - and with all due respect to this site as a whole: A single EnWorld poll is hardly proof of anything, except maybe that internet polls exist. They can be fun and half of the ones I have responded to I went into the thread just to see if there were any funny answers. There are professional companies that try to be an scientific as they can in order to gather information, and then there are collage level statistic classes to determine what the Margin of Error is, and that is based off of multiple things such as: Questions Asked, People Polled, Order Of Questions Asked (not making that up), How THey Were Asked (by phone, etc) and Time Of Day. It is quite possable that some of these internet polls are designed by professional pollsters. Ask me about any one particular poll and I'd hazard to guess the answer is 'no.' At the very least who knows who will actually answer them. The people that visit EnWorld are a small subset of D&D gamers, let alone those people that have actually signed up and answered the poll in question. That said; if he had used as proof 'six different polls including ones at Site A, Site B and EnWorld' I think he would have much more leverage in his statements. He repeated the 39% amount multiple times to back up his statement. That was taken from one internet poll. If that 39% was an average from multiple polls it might have more weight with me. I do agree that WotC dropped the ball on the marketing - at least certain aspects of the marketing. I just don't his 39% is an indication of it. [/QUOTE]

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