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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3700774" data-attributes="member: 18280">Without knowing the size of each population group, we have no way of knowing this.No, it does not.It is tantamount to saying that excluding Target Group X from voting isn't really exclusion because we don't know that including Target Group X would change the outcome.The idea of polling is presumably to determine what gaming tastes exist, and such a poll might have told us whether or not gaming tastes were dramatically different for a 25 year old gamer and a 45 year old gamer.  Seeking information doesn't assume that the information is going to be one thing or another.Exclusions in polling are used, AFAIK, because (1) you don't have the manpower to perform a more inclusive poll, (2) the excluded group falls outside your target demographic, and/or (3) the pollers believe that the excluded group will/may skew the results.Drawing the conclusion that WotC didn't poll gamers over 35 implies one or more of the above to be true.  Experience tells me that in the case of (1) they would have limited the polling areas, or used random selection to limit the polls.  This suggests that reasons (2) and/or (3) were the operative reasons.RC</blockquote>