I did classic until I leveled up, with no intention of raiding. I’m the guy who leveled from 48-60 killing furbolgs in Felwood and Winterspring. I was on a dead server, and when my priest friend quit because he was tired of waiting for mana, so did I.
We don’t have access to the sort of data that would break those numbers down to mean something. People who do a lot of mythic+ dungeons, who do a lot of them on all their alts, people who did 1 a week, people who buy carries for the mount, and people who have done one the entire expansion end up getting grouped together even though doing so is meaningless.
Yeah, anybody who exclaims that they have data is really just trying to use numbers to make their argument look more solidified in fact. All it takes is a more critical observation to see that numbers arguments are virtually meaningless and have no ground to stand on.
Everyone knows that statistics need to be corroborated anyways.
I remember some guy saying that 60% of the playerbase had downed the first raid boss in 9.1, which indicated that the majority of the playerbase raided.
It didn’t account for how many actually saw the entire raid to completion, how many of those players continued to raid after clearing the entire raid at least once (because there’s always a statistical drop in engagement after the first clear), and it didn’t consider what percentage of those achievements were just carries.
its not proof but it is evidence and thats why I back it up with another piece of evidence, that is blizzard recommend you to have a higher ilvl than M15 drops to actually do the content