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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8077095" data-attributes="member: 93670">No the surveys are designed to get a specific result.&nbsp; &quot;is x fun to play&quot; is a meaningless question that excludes &quot;yea but it's broken&quot; and &quot;well bob liked playing it but Alice felt like a third wheel to bob because he was equal in her niche &amp; better in so many others&quot; and &quot;probably but I'm strongly considering telling bob he needs to play something else&quot;.&nbsp; How you word questions is critical to the result. How you weight the answers matters too.&nbsp; It's extremely rare that wotc asks questions directed at player &amp; GM individually &amp; the number of people playing d&amp;d is a massively larger group who depend entirelyon the people who GM.&nbsp; Yes there are people who play and GM, but it's rare to see something like a prison d&amp;d group where the GM rotates each week so no one inmate has power over the others rather than one or two people in the group who generally do most if not all of the GM'ing.&nbsp; If you don't ask questions relevant to a gm &amp; don't check who is mostly gm/mostly player you can't meet their needs/desires or even weight their answers at some reasonable leveledit:&nbsp; Pew writes about question wording in <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/u-s-survey-research/questionnaire-design/" target="_blank">Questionnaire design - Pew Research Center Methods</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8077095, member: 93670"] No the surveys are designed to get a specific result. "is x fun to play" is a meaningless question that excludes "yea but it's broken" and "well bob liked playing it but Alice felt like a third wheel to bob because he was equal in her niche & better in so many others" and "probably but I'm strongly considering telling bob he needs to play something else". How you word questions is critical to the result. How you weight the answers matters too. It's extremely rare that wotc asks questions directed at player & GM individually & the number of people playing d&d is a massively larger group who depend entirelyon the people who GM. Yes there are people who play and GM, but it's rare to see something like a prison d&d group where the GM rotates each week so no one inmate has power over the others rather than one or two people in the group who generally do most if not all of the GM'ing. If you don't ask questions relevant to a gm & don't check who is mostly gm/mostly player you can't meet their needs/desires or even weight their answers at some reasonable level edit: Pew writes about question wording in [URL="https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/u-s-survey-research/questionnaire-design/"]Questionnaire design - Pew Research Center Methods[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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