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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3147485" data-attributes="member: 18280">From <a href="http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/whatis/demographics.html" target="_blank">http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/whatis/demographics.html</a>The best known survey done of gamers was conducted by Wizards of the Coast in the summer of 1999. A short post-card questionnaire was sent to over 20,000 households. Based on results of this, a more detailed followup survey was sent to 1000 respondents. A summary of the results of this have been made publically available as the "Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary", available at the RPGnet website among other places. Is this accurate?  1,000 respondents is far from exhaustive research, IMHO.On <a href="http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/whatis/demographics.html" target="_blank">http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/rpg/whatis/demographics.html</a> we are told thatInformation from more than 65,000 people was gathered from a questionnaire sent to more than 20,000 households via a post card survey.which seems to indicate that every postcard was intended to glean information on 3 or more individuals.  In other words, for every "primary" respondant, information was given second-hand on 2-3 others, seemingly skewing the results drastically toward second-hand information.Is there something here I'm not seeing?</blockquote>