I appreciate your feedback. Thank you for reminding everyone to take the results with a hefty grain of salt. Just a few things I’d like to say, though.
If you want to go that far, then, to be fair, you should also consider the number of average players who marked themselves as Mercy mains to “fudge the results” as well.
Though I will say, 68% of all responses were confident enough in what they were saying that they gave me a direct ID, with a few dozen more apologizing that they couldn’t remember the full ID. So if I truly wanted to, I could double check all of those. If you’re concerned about private profiles, I could limit it even further to public-only if I really want to.
Plus, as I said before, the difference between shared ID’s and Non was minimal at best. The biggest difference I have in my notes right now is 2.3%, which is just naturally expected when you have to cut out a third of your responses. Still the same, solid point across.
Which is why it’s important to look at what others are saying too. I tried to come up with as many categories as was reasonable to get different perspectives (people who don’t play support, people who play support but not Mercy, etc) and would gladly add more if you want to help.
But if they all come to the same conclusion, then is it really completely unreliable? Or is that just the general consensus of those who are around at the time?
Either way, I made this with the expectancy that it would be skewed towards Mercy mains. I never doubted it would happen (hence the first disclaimer being “hey, this isn’t 100% reflexive of everyone”)
But isn’t that how every poll in existence works?
If a surveyor were to outright force you to take a poll, then not only would the poll be discredited, but the surveyor would lose all funding due to misconduct. No one can hold a gun to your head and say “Hey, you have to take this.” They can be assertive as they stop people walking by and such, but you can still ignore them, and that’s it. Send me it in the mail, and I can choose to respond or throw it in the trash. Have it pop up on my computer, and I can choose to just close it. In the end, it’s always voluntary. It’s simply the nature of a survey.
Every single year there are stories about how “half of America didn’t show up to the polls because they didn’t think their vote mattered” or something along those lines.
The number one best way to take a survey is to be upfront about your purpose.
All responses to your survey are unreliable if the participant doesn’t even know what they’re answering.
I feel like you get my point. I’m going to stop now.