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<blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8250609" data-attributes="member: 10148">One, I specifically noted that as a complicating factor for the comparison in the original post. However, it shouldn't have any effect on the final summary of all 389 responses.Two, I went and got responses from rpg.net and Reddit in an attempt to make it representative of a larger number of D&amp;D players than I could get from ENWorld alone. Allowing folks to respond more than once to what was basically an extension of the original poll would have made the poll less representative.If your standard is that I can't create a statistically valid poll using responses from D&amp;D forums online, you're (at best) asking me to make this a research project on a scale that only a professional polling company would be able to achieve. Even the responses Wizards of the Coast get are from folks online who see links to their polls on internet forums, Facebook, Twitter, etc., so I'd be surprised if you consider those statistically valid...If you or someone else is willing to put in such extraordinary amounts of effort to answer these questions, more power to you. I'll happily support it. But I only did this in the first place because it seemed like an interesting question to answer - I'm not interested in making a career out of this simply because the poll wasn't perfect.Also, at this point, I'm pretty well convinced that you would dismiss any poll results I presented as &quot;junk data&quot;, even if I did try to meet your professional-grade standards.You know, it's kind of funny that these polls have been running for weeks now, but it's only after I present the final results that folks start attacking the validity of the poll itself...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JEB, post: 8250609, member: 10148"] One, I specifically noted that as a complicating factor for the comparison in the original post. However, it shouldn't have any effect on the final summary of all 389 responses. Two, I went and got responses from rpg.net and Reddit in an attempt to make it representative of a larger number of D&D players than I could get from ENWorld alone. Allowing folks to respond more than once to what was basically an extension of the original poll would have made the poll less representative. If your standard is that I can't create a statistically valid poll using responses from D&D forums online, you're (at best) asking me to make this a research project on a scale that only a professional polling company would be able to achieve. Even the responses Wizards of the Coast get are from folks online who see links to their polls on internet forums, Facebook, Twitter, etc., so I'd be surprised if you consider those statistically valid... If you or someone else is willing to put in such extraordinary amounts of effort to answer these questions, more power to you. I'll happily support it. But I only did this in the first place because it seemed like an interesting question to answer - I'm not interested in making a career out of this simply because the poll wasn't perfect. Also, at this point, I'm pretty well convinced that you would dismiss any poll results I presented as "junk data", even if I did try to meet your professional-grade standards. You know, it's kind of funny that these polls have been running for weeks now, but it's only after I present the final results that folks start attacking the validity of the poll itself... [/QUOTE]

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