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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6719439" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Well, Lowkey, all I can say is that people were already saying--perhaps casually, perhaps not meaning it as it sounded--that the &quot;most popular&quot; character was a half-elf Bard, and were talking about what alignment that character would have. That strikes me as deriving a &quot;probative&quot; result. Like I said, it might be people just using the short, casual way of saying it, but it didn't seem like that to me at the time.And in my experience, people treat forum polls as highly representative...when it's convenient for them to treat them so. E.g., when the poll supports, or can be construed to support, their argument. Doesn't matter whether it's for or against any given issue. That's why I give a consistent response to all polls I see: I explicitly state how useless they are, both to remind people that they really mean very, very little, and to make sure *I* don't become a big ol' hypocrite for trying to get &quot;real data&quot; out of a forum poll when I've spoken out against doing so many times.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 6719439, member: 6790260"] Well, Lowkey, all I can say is that people were already saying--perhaps casually, perhaps not meaning it as it sounded--that the "most popular" character was a half-elf Bard, and were talking about what alignment that character would have. That strikes me as deriving a "probative" result. Like I said, it might be people just using the short, casual way of saying it, but it didn't seem like that to me at the time. And in my experience, people treat forum polls as highly representative...when it's convenient for them to treat them so. E.g., when the poll supports, or can be construed to support, their argument. Doesn't matter whether it's for or against any given issue. That's why I give a consistent response to all polls I see: I explicitly state how useless they are, both to remind people that they really mean very, very little, and to make sure *I* don't become a big ol' hypocrite for trying to get "real data" out of a forum poll when I've spoken out against doing so many times. [/QUOTE]

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