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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rogueattorney" data-source="post: 5143893" data-attributes="member: 17551">They're very different games.  In a lot of respects, 1e and 2e are closer in actual rules than 1e and either OD&D or BD&D - baroque and rules heavy versus simple and rules light.  Someone who likes BD&D isn't necessarily going to like a product catered to the 1e fan and vice versa.  Thus, if they're trying to find out what type of games people prefer, the categories they have there aren't telling them anything.  If they're not trying to find out what kind of games people prefer, I don't know why they're asking the question.  If they're just trying to find out how many people still play pre-3e, why divide 1e and 2e?  They have questions for finding out how long people have been playing and how old they are already, so the edition question doesn't need to be asked to find that out.  Just from a surveying standpoint, the "1e (1974)" is confusing to those who play those respective editions that may be covered by the category in question.  (1e came out in 1977, OD&D came out in 1974, are the BECM products from after 1988 "1e" or "2e".)  It doesn't bother me so much as a D&D fan as much as it does as someone who spent way too much of his undergraduate years studying about polls, surveys, and public opinion samplings.  It seems to me to be a classic "garbage in, garbage out" question, and I'm not sure what useful information they could possibly be deriving from it...  "This percentage of people may or may not be playing one of these three or four editions of the game which may or may not be any more alike than one of these other categories we asked about..."  Other than perhaps, "Not enough people click this choice to make us care enough to clarify," which is probably the case.</blockquote>

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