Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
That isn't how statistics work. Once you reach a large enough sample size, it doesn't matter. The average will more or less remain the same. Since we have several thousand uploads for every job, this threshold has already been met. What you see on FFlogs is roughly accurate representation of each jobs' output. rDPS is far from a perfect metric but remains efficient. Additionally, FFlogs allows you to partition based on percentile. Therefore, a 95% Dragoon will only be compared against a 95% Bard. And in every single instance, they will absolutely dominant them.
Yes, that is how statistics work, unless you are throwing accuracy out the window. Anonymous unregulated logs with no control does not equate to reliable test data for class adjustments, not even to a remotely reliable extent. It is not a matter of sample size when the fundamental system is flawed. Any person at any time could purposely upload 100's of extremely poor logs of say, Dragoon, and drastically shift the avg. It's insanity to think a full average of logs from such a system acts as a basis for reliable class assessment. But no one even needs to do this. There can just naturally be a happenstance of an unproportionate size of terrible logs for various roles of those who choose to upload. Massing together averages from all logs from FFlogs will never be a reliable source for objective data on where classes compare against one another. To think otherwise is willful ignorance and a credence to the saying of there being lies, strong lies, and then statistics.

Even if you were going to use FFlogs to try to get an idea of where classes compare against one another, you'd need to spend a long time curating the logs selected, which probably shouldn't be done by just one person (or by a group of like-minded people) anyways due to the concern of personal (or group) bias affecting judgement during the curation process. Honestly though, you'd end up with a far more accurate result if you planned a test from the ground up as described in my original post. What was presented, however, was ignorant at best, lazy at worse, and purposely misleading at worst.