Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
What they’re saying is that SE’s statistics include RMT bots. That’s why they have males projected higher—most RMT bots are the generic Male Hyur Midlanders, though I do see a lot of the THM bots as male Lalafells.
When I looked up the statictis (and shared them in this thread), I thought the same, but there are still things to consider that are making those statistics more valid than anecdotal experience and then perception of the 3/4 ratio the OP claims:

You can correct me on this one, should I be mistaken, but those RMT-bots are the ones that get actually deleted, are they not? So while some might show up in the statictis, those are only the ones that are currently active - seeing how each week about 4k of them are getting banned and how we have 11 million registers characters or about 570k active ones, thats a tiny, tiny portion.
Even if we only take NA into consideartion, with about 250k active characters, that would be roughly 1,6%
I dont know if SE used anything to filter out bots in their statics and I know the amount of them can seem overwhemling, when you see like 30 of them teleporting at once, but generally speaking: I would assume that the statics doesnt include so many bots that it isnt a reperensation of actual player-preference anymore. Maybe not down to the excat number, but certainly not enough to shift the 40/60 ratio to a 75/25 one - thats down to personal perception. Maybe its more like 50/50 for the western world aswell, if you subtract the bots - but I doubt its gonna be much more/different than that.