Quote Originally Posted by TheNight View Post
The forums are a biased representation of the entire playerbase since generally the more active and invested players will participate. That does NOT imply that the rest of the playerbase are completely neutral. The way to address sample bias is not to conclude that everyone out-of-sample behave the exact opposite of what people in-sample are like.
I agree with everything you said here, and never said anything intended to suggest otherwise. If you genuinely interpreted my words such that it sounded like I was saying the opposite, it makes sense why you would think I was saying something that was in dire need of correction. I encourage you to give my conversation with De014 a good faith re-read.

And if there's a problem with my methodology that you notice after that, I'd genuinely love to hear about it. It would be helpful to have an actual statistician weigh in on the issue we're discussing and how best to interpret the numerical data!