Quote Originally Posted by SamRF View Post
Read and respond to my reply prior to the one you've quoted here.
You mean this one?

Quote Originally Posted by SamRF View Post
2700 entries is more than enough. You'd only need about 400 entries to have a 95% confidence level considering active FFXIV population (using 600 000)

With 2700 entries you have a marginal error of about 2%, meaning the real result will be within +- 2% of the survey's result.

This is of course only truly the case when you have a random sample, but having a truly random sample is usually impossible.
I read it. I was already responding to it.

2700 entries means nothing if they're concentrated within one part of a whole.

It's hard to get a truly random sample, but this isn't even an attempt.

If you stood outside a political rally (regardless of which side of politics) and polled attendees on who they wanted to win the election, even if you polled hundreds of thousands of people, you couldn't then use it as proof that 99% of the general population want X to win.