theolaf

My sampling 100% fits the objective and subject of my survey. What do you think my survey is a survey of? The issue at hand was the "major" communitys tearing eachother apart because they all assumed the others wanted something specific, my survey proved that was not the case. My survey is completely indicative of that. There is no bias- the survey is open to everyone in the target demographic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error Read it up. Essentially says the larger the sample, the lower the margin of error. This was a TRUE randon polling of viable particupants (active people on the forums) and a snall SELECTION of people has a greatly increased chance of bias- either accidental or intentional. My 800 participants would put me at an *average 3.5% margin of error. whereas your proposed 150 would be closer to 7 or 8%. Scientific polls do not go through a lot of trouble figuring out margin of error. It is a simole mathmatical equasion based on level of confidence, and sample size. Looking at the results I can ascertain a 95% confidence level (whick literally almost all surveys and polls are) leaving me at roughly a 3.5% margin of error. As we speak now none of the stats are even a whole percent different- over 200 participants later... well within the 3% i roughly estimated at the start. Now since I had to prove myself to you, prove yourself to everyone else by showing what led you to "assure" me that poll margin or error calculation is a lengthy process, and provide source that proves my sampling is bad.

Liquid, I think he meant the BI doesnt give him 100% freedom with everything. DayZ is a BI copyright, and a BI product now. Although Dean may be the "man in charge", he is still only the lead developer (And a bit of a PR faceman). He still answers to someone else who ultimately gives him direction. The game is being developed on BI money now, so naturally they will keep a strong hold on the development process. We as players and potential customers will benefit from real QA, whereas that wouldnt be practical otherwise. Essentially it is a symbiotic relationship where they (DayZ and BI) benefit off eachother- However I cant believe BI needs DayZ more than the converse.

Some people are never happy. It happens, I dont take offense, some people are naturally un trusting.

I have a pdf that I could share, but theres no way for me to post it here... let me see if I can upload it somewhere.

One of the issues is the "man with the plan" would reach out to all the community sites. Reddit, dayzmod, twitter, facebook, even 4chan. The current devs don't even try to do that. Dean arguably posts on reddit more than here.

This man... genius. There is a missing PR link somewhere in the system, and as I said- the nod to the people was a great idea, just not executed well according to the majority. There was a step missed in the development process where a proposed idea was never proposed.

Also, having opened the poll back up, I have had nearly 200 more respondents so far, (25% more) and not ONE of the results have tipped either way even a full % point yet. We will see what it looks like at the end, but this honestly looks like the real results.

I have the survey set to ignore duplicate IPs and MACs. There are no accounts involved. The only way to submit multiple times is to either go to a totally different house or go through a proxy, which the survey has a public proxy list filter.

To be fair, those "randoms" are also players, and are apparently the majority. The poll was open to everyone, the only reason that the dayzmod.com "community" had less say was because either less people are active on the dayzmod forums than reddit, or less dayzmod forums people care enough to have their voice heard. I actually technically posted the poll on dayzmod.com a few minutes before reddit. You claim dayzmod.com forums are ther "real" community, when it would appear that the community is either less active, or cares less. A "random selection" poll has always been proven statistically to have a larger margin of error both due to the fact of a significantly smaller sample of people, and a larger percentage of people who don't really take the survey seriously.

If people dont know how to answer a question, I wouldnt say that is the surveys fault per-se. I understand how some may see a bias, But it is a false perception. Would you like to to have two options of "I liked it" and "I really fucking liked it"? Ultimately they are the same literal answer just one is more passionate. There are no more facts being conveyed. However, if someone disliked it, I wanted to know WHY they disliked it, not just "I hate that crap". At any rate, I left an "other" option and you can see quite a few people used it- sadly many of them MISUSED it by not expressing anything other than slander. TL:DR No matter how you make a survey, some people are going to "go full retard".

An honest man! Lol, some people had big issues with it. Much of it stemming from the fact that it just doesnt fit in the game. I know that I, personally look at every item I pick up, and I could imagine quite a few others do to. Lots of people play th game to get as involved as possible, not just to pew pew zombies and people. To each their own... eh?

Attention! I opened the survey back up just to see what a "long term" poll will look like. go ahead and vote now if you like, I will post the results of the long term poll Saturday night! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MHB79BM

We all just don't like you! My first thread was posted in suggestions, it was lock and moved to general. Later in the day, i posted another thread in General that stayed as the very top post for a couple hours, Actually, that post is still on the first page. I tried to get the word out as much as possible, and as I said 290 people took the survey from the dayzmod forum link- so I think I at least had partial success. I'm sorry you didnt get to voice your word. Cest la vie, I suppose.

That is the problem with EVERY survey. This is why I say take it for face value. Typically, surveys allow for a 3% margin of error, to assuming 24 trolls only posted negative things- that will not skew the results any significant amount. Yes the second question is "subjective", but I wanted to see what peoples issues were (if any). You can still see that only 31.65% of people actually thought there was nothing wrong with the food. That 31.65% most likely isnt going to check any other boxes- meaning that leaves ~68.35% of people who are distributed among the REST of the answers based on %/(.3). Math is too much for me right now, but essentially* almost 70% of the people at least thought it wasn't perhaps the best of ideas.