Healer Changes Straw Poll from Reddit

[Gaethan_Tessula]

And we have 330 million people in the US and 1000 polled respondents is a good metric of almost any topic. Polls are samples. Nothing more. They're supposed to be representative of the whole.

A professionally conducted poll will carefully consider what populations they randomly select from. 1000 people living in Portland metro are going to think different than 1000 people in the rural southeast. Polls try to select at random, since that's the only way they actually approximate a population accurately. The issue with this poll is that the population engaging with it is highly unlikely to be random and the answers to the question posed are too broad imo. It also has no way to weight the population for sampling biases.

As much as I am dissatisfied with the healer changes, I have to agree with the other side here: this poll is poorly constructed (blind yes/no), poorly controlled (possibility of duplicate votes, onus is on those polled to find poll, weighting sample is impossible), and pulls from a population (people who have enough investment in the game and issue to participate in a poll on English language fan forums) that is arguably not representative of the playerbase as a whole. I mean, most casually created internet polls given to the public at large are, so I don't mean to imply anything against its creator.

It's a quick way to gauge opinions in the broadest strokes possible, it's not meaningless, but I'd never call it valid or statistically significant and therefore wouldn't use it as a tool in debate.

A better poll would likely call random active players, and would be more involved with the questions asked. Of course, I doubt anyone is going to actually DO that.

[Knoahl]

I'm still finding it amusing they made the healer npcs in Trusts DPS in their downtime endlessly, if that doesn't say what the devs think truly IDEK.

[Ceasaria]

I would have loved to see Gravity spam by Urianger

[Jollyy5]

I'm not a healer main, but I have played healers in casual content as well as EX and Savage.

So I'd argue that I'm "qualified enough"

[EaMett]

I'm not a healer main, but I have played healers in casual content as well as EX and Savage.

So I'd argue that I'm "qualified enough"

I don't know if that's in response to me but yeah it's not a matter of being qualified or not. Even if you're not qualified at all and never played healer your opinion can still be valuable. It's just that it doesn't say anything if you just bunch up all players from all backgrounds into one vaguely formulated poll. Aka: We can't tell anything from this poll.