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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 8250016" data-attributes="member: 6879661">So I hate to pick apart the polling but the questions don’t actually give the information that the OP is purporting to display.OP asked 225 people “Which of the following elements should D&amp;D keep in future editions?”But that question doesn’t give any idea as to which elements are important to keep. The respondent could care trivially about retaining the dice in an RPG or could feel very strongly about retaining levels. And vice versa.[USER=10148]@JEB[/USER] you have equated frequency of choice with importance. When in fact these aren’t the same thing. Based on what I said above most respondents feeling trivially affectionate about dice for instance in a ‘sure why not, can’t think of anything better kind of way’ would appear to make dice extremely important to keep.Whereas some people may feel very strongly that deities should be kept, but others trivially unconcerned - leading the suggestion that it is less important. Where in fact it could be very important to those 39%.I think if you wanted to make these kinds of polls actually speak to importance you need to ask that question. Probably by asking people to rank their choices of importance. It will give you far more useful data.I’m not sure forum posters are the most representative group of general public opinion. I appreciate your point that it’s limited by medium and resources. if you wanted to reflect public opinion, what be worthwhile might be a smaller study of casual players to see if their choices correlate with the findings of forum goers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 8250016, member: 6879661"] So I hate to pick apart the polling but the questions don’t actually give the information that the OP is purporting to display. OP asked 225 people “Which of the following elements should D&D keep in future editions?” But that question doesn’t give any idea as to which elements are important to keep. The respondent could care trivially about retaining the dice in an RPG or could feel very strongly about retaining levels. And vice versa. [USER=10148]@JEB[/USER] you have equated frequency of choice with importance. When in fact these aren’t the same thing. Based on what I said above most respondents feeling trivially affectionate about dice for instance in a ‘sure why not, can’t think of anything better kind of way’ would appear to make dice extremely important to keep. Whereas some people may feel very strongly that deities should be kept, but others trivially unconcerned - leading the suggestion that it is less important. Where in fact it could be very important to those 39%. I think if you wanted to make these kinds of polls actually speak to importance you need to ask that question. Probably by asking people to rank their choices of importance. It will give you far more useful data. I’m not sure forum posters are the most representative group of general public opinion. I appreciate your point that it’s limited by medium and resources. if you wanted to reflect public opinion, what be worthwhile might be a smaller study of casual players to see if their choices correlate with the findings of forum goers. [/QUOTE]

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