Thank You, Aria Rose

BadWidowEU-2419 · September 12, 2018, 5:08pm

Someone had an argument similar to this as well. Lemme try to find it.

This is completely wrong. Private profiles make no difference at all here. When you’re trying to collect statistical information, it’s okay to decrease your sample size to a smaller (but still significant) sample if the criterion you use to decrease the sample is independent of what you’re measuring.

Imagine you were going house by house in a city to check what percentage of people have blue eyes. Now imagine you did the same thing, but only checked houses with even numbered addresses. Do you think the percentages would be different in any significant way? The odds against it are astronomically small.

In order to believe that private profiles have any effect here at all, you have to believe the following facts.
People whose profiles are public are significantly worse at Mercy than people whose profiles are private. Furthermore, they weren’t worse before the recent nerf.

This Mercy issue they’re having is very recent. Nothing about Mercy statistics changed in the slightest when profiles became private.
If you don’t believe these claims (and you shouldn’t, they’re preposterous) then the claim that private profile has any significant bearing at all on Mercy statistics is manifestly false.