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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8250653" data-attributes="member: 93670">It's not a &quot;complicating factor&quot;, it's an injection of noise that ignores people active in multiple places are more likely to be more involved with d&amp;d &amp; possibly even spend more&nbsp; on it or any number of other things.&nbsp; What's worse is that 389 is likely a vanishingly tiny fraction of those communities even if you limit to&nbsp; those active within a short window of time like a week or month&nbsp; Those numbers are harder to gather for the various forums, but reddit shows number of members &amp; number of online users for each subreddit on the right.&nbsp; /r/cheesemaking has 53.8k members &amp; 41 online right now at 2am as a good example of a small niche subreddit.&nbsp; By comparison /r/dnd has 2.3m &amp; 7.2k online right now at 2am est.&nbsp;&nbsp; It's a safe bet that 389 is less than the rounding error produced by rounding that 7.2k up or down.Yes and that's laudable for attempting, but with a single question &amp; dubious sampling&nbsp; the biggest accomplishment of this poll is to provide ammunition for&nbsp; dismissing opinions with &quot;posters on the forum are very different from the community at large&quot; when dismissing it.&nbsp; That's not to say that good polling can't be done, statistics grads do it every so often as part of coursework &amp; using all of 30seconds r so on google it looks like <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/5s2uz4/results_of_my_5e_character_survey_almost_2500/" target="_blank">this</a> might have been one.People post forum polls all the time &amp; it's generally not worth fighting over the poll itself&nbsp; since they don't say much unless it's a simple question like does x really happen with decisive results.&nbsp; Really all such a poll like the yoyo healing one at 77/26 with just over a hundred votes actually does though is lend a bit of weight to the discussion of&nbsp; the problem itself &amp; any merits it might bring. There are tons of free &amp; cheap polling tools that can be used online like surveymonkey &amp; such&nbsp; that can be used in conjunction with a reasonably well worded survey to draw useful data from without even needing to know how to code your own survey application on an aws or something just like that one I dug up &amp; linked to above did.It's great that you found interest in doing some kind of poll, but people are offering you constructive advice not to attack you but to help provide you with the tools &amp; knowledge needed to accomplish actually useful data collection if you decide that you enjoyed it enough to do better.&nbsp; They aren't offering this advice &amp; knowledge because you ended the poll, it's being offered because you are presenting the results as something far more than they are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8250653, member: 93670"] It's not a "complicating factor", it's an injection of noise that ignores people active in multiple places are more likely to be more involved with d&d & possibly even spend more on it or any number of other things. What's worse is that 389 is likely a vanishingly tiny fraction of those communities even if you limit to those active within a short window of time like a week or month Those numbers are harder to gather for the various forums, but reddit shows number of members & number of online users for each subreddit on the right. /r/cheesemaking has 53.8k members & 41 online right now at 2am as a good example of a small niche subreddit. By comparison /r/dnd has 2.3m & 7.2k online right now at 2am est. It's a safe bet that 389 is less than the rounding error produced by rounding that 7.2k up or down. Yes and that's laudable for attempting, but with a single question & dubious sampling the biggest accomplishment of [I]this[/I] poll is to provide ammunition for dismissing opinions with "posters on the forum are very different from the community at large" when dismissing it. That's not to say that good polling can't be done, statistics grads do it every so often as part of coursework & using all of 30seconds r so on google it looks like [URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/5s2uz4/results_of_my_5e_character_survey_almost_2500/']this[/URL] might have been one. People post forum polls all the time & it's generally not worth fighting over the poll itself since they don't say much unless it's a simple question like does x really happen with decisive results. Really all such a poll like the yoyo healing one at 77/26 with just over a hundred votes actually does though is lend a bit of weight to the discussion of the problem itself & any merits it might bring. There are tons of free & cheap polling tools that can be used online like surveymonkey & such that can be used in conjunction with a reasonably well worded survey to draw useful data from without even needing to know how to code your own survey application on an aws or something just like that one I dug up & linked to above did. It's great that you found interest in doing some kind of poll, but people are offering you constructive advice not to attack you but to help provide you with the tools & knowledge needed to accomplish actually useful data collection if you decide that you enjoyed it enough to do better. They aren't offering this advice & knowledge because you ended the poll, it's being offered because you are presenting the results as something far more than they are. [/QUOTE]

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