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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6753240" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Well, of course, that's what you do with just about any data. Data--or at least well-collected and honestly-presented data--is "objective." It simply is. Interpretation, the evaluative judgment about the data...that is not. See the SMBC about statistical presentation in politics: "our teen birth rate is skyrocketing" vs. "we have become a nation of sexual prodigies."AFAIK, no such polls exist. The closest thing we have is that "what is your favorite class" poll, where the Warlord outranked several present-in-5e classes, but it didn't have anything to do with name preferences. Doing such a comparative analysis amongst all the variant names of all the various classes would be relatively complex statistical analysis, far beyond anything WotC has shown even interest in doing, let alone the expertise to do.For me, I was looking at the raw numbers behind the percentages, more than the percentages themselves, for making that statement. Several posters--for example, [MENTION=48965]Imaro[/MENTION] in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?471037-Purple-Dragon-Knight-Warlord&p=6751763&viewfull=1#post6751763" target="_blank">this post</a>--characterize the entirety of the issue to be "roughly...the same 10 posters" throwing a fit. According to the above poll, however, some 50-ish posters are completely fine with at least one of the above-stated names, none of which exist (either as class or subclass) in D&D 5e. So, while it might in fact be only "the same 10 posters" making threads, there's four times as many people who aren't saying anything but still share some kind of positive opinion about the concept. They may be highly heterogeneous and agree on little beyond the name...but it's still halfway decent evidence that there's a "silent" support group in addition to the vocal one.Yeah, the poll definitely suffered from (a) initially being half-humorous, and (b) generating measurably popular answers outside the provided set. For that reason, I'd be interested to see what would result from taking (say) the top 10 options plus Herald and making a single-choice follow-up poll; not being multiple-choice will bring all the responses down, of course, but that's a mixed bag (no option is likely to win even 20% of the overall vote, but conversely we can add together distinct but thematically-similar groups, like "Captain/Marshal/Commander/Warlord" which are really only shades of the same color).</blockquote>

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