144474-poll-will-you-continue-to-play-wildstar

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This blowout of jargon probably looks really great to people who don't do a lot of statistics, but there's so many errors in this that I don't even know where to begin trying to correct it. Suffice to say that you are 100% incorrect about the concern over biased population sampling being invalid. The central limit theorem only applies when the samples being used to estimate population traits are randomly drawn from the entire population. So... no. Polls like this are fine when they are an unbiased random sample of the population, but forums are disproportionately populated with highly committed and heavily invested players, and because of this they are not an unbiased random sample of the population. Ergo, polls of forum users cannot be extrapolated to be an accurate measure of the game's playerbase as a whole, and it must always be kept in mind that the results of a forum poll tell you the opinion only of those players so deeply committed to the game that they spend time posting on the forums at all.


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