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<blockquote data-quote="Numion" data-source="post: 3909832" data-attributes="member: 124">It was my mistake; I jumped into conclusion that his beef was with the sample size, and not with ENWorld &lt;-&gt; general D&amp;D gamer link. It's just that I had calculated some confidence limits for simple binomial stuff in work, and I guess I was eager to jump in. You know the feeling when once in a blue moon a forum topic actually touches something you actually know something about? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :o"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> Anyways, Storm Raven makes a good point about the representativeness of the sample, because the poll is a question from ENWorlders about people outside of ENWorld. A bit similar to making a poll on the percentage of people aged 20-25 that are in a relationship. You only have access to SinglesForum, say, and you make two polls:A) Are you 20-25 years old and single?B) What percentage of your 20-25 year old friends (you included) are single?A) is going to be very skewed compared to general populace, since it's singles forum, but B) might yield results closer to truth. Not wholly accurate analogy, though.I admit that the half-assed arguments I made wouldn't stand up to scientific scrutiny, but it's just a piece of the whole picture where everything seems to point to the direction that the norm was not &quot;1 DM + N players clueless on DMG&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Numion, post: 3909832, member: 124"] It was my mistake; I jumped into conclusion that his beef was with the sample size, and not with ENWorld <-> general D&D gamer link. It's just that I had calculated some confidence limits for simple binomial stuff in work, and I guess I was eager to jump in. You know the feeling when once in a blue moon a forum topic actually touches something you actually know something about? :o Anyways, Storm Raven makes a good point about the representativeness of the sample, because the poll is a question from ENWorlders about people outside of ENWorld. A bit similar to making a poll on the percentage of people aged 20-25 that are in a relationship. You only have access to SinglesForum, say, and you make two polls: A) Are you 20-25 years old and single? B) What percentage of your 20-25 year old friends (you included) are single? A) is going to be very skewed compared to general populace, since it's singles forum, but B) might yield results closer to truth. Not wholly accurate analogy, though. I admit that the half-assed arguments I made wouldn't stand up to scientific scrutiny, but it's just a piece of the whole picture where everything seems to point to the direction that the norm was not "1 DM + N players clueless on DMG". [/QUOTE]

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