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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Numion" data-source="post: 3149033" data-attributes="member: 124">No, not really. You choose who you want to please, and then you ask them. Including and excluding are the same thing. You plan a statistical test for anything, part of it is to choose the target population. WotC might consider choosing the target population from, for example: all americans, all american roleplayers, all american D&D players, all american D&D players aged 7-65, all american D&D players aged 10-35.If they want to develop the game to be very mainstream they might ask just random americans what they know about D&D, what interests them in what they've heard, what kind of D&D would they like to play .. etc. Now, if they wanted to know what the strengths and weaknesses of the current D&D (then 2nd ed) are to make it more popular among younger players, they might choose the last segment. There's no malice in it, or any kind of conspiracy to shaft the older players - they just might not know anymore how to capture that wonder D&D inspires in younger players, which is an important part in getting people hooked to the game.It's quite ordinary, actually, in different fields. Choose the audience you're going for, and ask them.But it does make you right in that the market research isn't really a study on all D&D players, and shouldn't be touted as such. It was a market research conducted to sell more books, not to know the D&D players. Well, ok, it can function little as a both, as long as all remember how the sample was chosen and what was asked. I know neither.P.S. I've studied some statistics at Uni, but don't shoot me for getting something wrong.</blockquote>

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