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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 7653147" data-attributes="member: 1">Absolutely. Nobody will deny that a company's website will - nearly always - be the largest source of discussion about their own products.  So the largest source of D&D discussion by far is wizards.com, the largest source of Pathfinder discussion by far is paizo.com, the largest source of Green Ronin's stuff is their website(s), and so on.  What I would LOVE to do (but I don't believe I can) is somehow separately measure ALL of those and see if the proportions match up to the independent site data.  So if Game X is discussed 3x as much on independent sites as Game Y, is the official site/forum also 3x as busy?  That would be fascinating to find out (and if it were the case, it would indicate that including/not including all of official sites would make no difference overall; but including only some of them would distort the results heavily).So in that particular case "more data" or "a larger sample" would actually be less representative, and less useful, than less data.  The statisticians in this thread no doubt have special terms for that!  Sometimes a smaller sample is better than a larger distorted sample - although our sample in this case is pretty darn large! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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