It looks to me like they're just trying to figure out what existing features are the player priority and, in a couple of instances, how popular a couple of other features may be. Personally, I don't mind the idea of the new features, but they don't seem terribly exciting.
Latest survey? Can someone post a link for it please?
It specifically tells those who get it not to, and it's a unique link per person. The contents are also private and I don't want my account flagged for talking about it in their forums, so I'm not at liberty to give specific details unfortunately.
Slightly weird that based on putting my age and industry I work, the survey just closed… apparently they don’t want the opinion of a 40 year old who works in journalism…
It's important to note that the survey ending after entering age and/or profession does not exclusively mean they're not interested in people from whichever groups of the two you're in by virtue of those groups alone. It can also mean they've reached a quota of responses from within those demographic silos. If you're not doing a population demographic distribution analysis (ie how many people under 20 play, how many people from 20 to 30 play etc), it's quite normal to response limit demographic responses. For example, say you want to compare what books are popular based on age demographic, you might either do capped responses, or automatic response balancing. Capped responses just means "once X people of demographic A have responded, we'll stop collecting data from that demographic". Response balancing on the other hand means "Once responses from demographic A exceed X% of total responses, we'll stop collecting that demographics data until it's percentage drops to below %" The latter is generally used if you're doing a survey with a cap on total number of responses that can be processed (more responses = more data processing = more cost), while the latter is used for open ended surveys that are going for as many responses as possible while maintaining parity between silos.
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Does taking more samples not generally increase the accuracy of the data? Unless people that fill out the survey usually answer untruthfully or have the tendency to make "joke" answers, I'm not sure why it would decrease accuracy.
Does taking more samples not generally increase the accuracy of the data? Unless people that fill out the survey usually answer untruthfully or have the tendency to make "joke" answers, I'm not sure why it would decrease accuracy.
Yes, but it also can cost more to process the data depending on if it's quantitative or qualitative. If the survey is just multiple choice or numerical ranking or the like there's not really a scale factor applied to cost in relation to responses. However, if the survey features any qualitative forms, those statements do create a scaling cost factor for data processing. In such cases there may be data point bounds; the lower being for a minimum viable data pool, and the upper being budget.
Heck, even in purely quantitative surveys sometimes there can be a scaling data volume cost. Good data acquisition is about balancing a lot of different variables to optimise your output
Not liking what I've seen in the latest survey. As a long-time subscriber, I will have to just call it quits.
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It looks to me like they're just trying to figure out what existing features are the player priority and, in a couple of instances, how popular a couple of other features may be. Personally, I don't mind the idea of the new features, but they don't seem terribly exciting.
Latest survey? Can someone post a link for it please?
It specifically tells those who get it not to, and it's a unique link per person. The contents are also private and I don't want my account flagged for talking about it in their forums, so I'm not at liberty to give specific details unfortunately.
Ah, okay. Thanks for the info.
Slightly weird that based on putting my age and industry I work, the survey just closed… apparently they don’t want the opinion of a 40 year old who works in journalism…
I really suspect the "works in journalism" part spooked them.
I said I’m in Education and in my 50’s and the survey ended. That’s the only two questions , age and profession. Then it ended. Creepy.
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It's important to note that the survey ending after entering age and/or profession does not exclusively mean they're not interested in people from whichever groups of the two you're in by virtue of those groups alone. It can also mean they've reached a quota of responses from within those demographic silos. If you're not doing a population demographic distribution analysis (ie how many people under 20 play, how many people from 20 to 30 play etc), it's quite normal to response limit demographic responses. For example, say you want to compare what books are popular based on age demographic, you might either do capped responses, or automatic response balancing. Capped responses just means "once X people of demographic A have responded, we'll stop collecting data from that demographic". Response balancing on the other hand means "Once responses from demographic A exceed X% of total responses, we'll stop collecting that demographics data until it's percentage drops to below %" The latter is generally used if you're doing a survey with a cap on total number of responses that can be processed (more responses = more data processing = more cost), while the latter is used for open ended surveys that are going for as many responses as possible while maintaining parity between silos.
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I think this falls on the latter end of Hanlon's Razor.
The tech behind the survey is probably being stupid without it going full Grey's Law & being indistinguishable from malice.
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Yeah, when I said I was 15 it shut down immediately.
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You're a minor:Why are you on this site, let alone the forums?
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Stop trying to gatekeep based on a user's age when they're within the rules. D&D isn't limited to 18+ to enjoy it, or to discuss it.
I genuinely thought it was otherwise. No gatekeeping intended. I was just trying to keep a kid safe.
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I don't think age related is why it shut you down, I am 60 and finished it.
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Could be that they don't have the desired number of responses from your demographic yet.
Interesting that they shut down responses instead of just weighting them.
Depending on the type of data and/or sentiment analysis you're doing, weighting responses can distort the data more than capping responses
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Does taking more samples not generally increase the accuracy of the data? Unless people that fill out the survey usually answer untruthfully or have the tendency to make "joke" answers, I'm not sure why it would decrease accuracy.
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Yes, but it also can cost more to process the data depending on if it's quantitative or qualitative. If the survey is just multiple choice or numerical ranking or the like there's not really a scale factor applied to cost in relation to responses. However, if the survey features any qualitative forms, those statements do create a scaling cost factor for data processing. In such cases there may be data point bounds; the lower being for a minimum viable data pool, and the upper being budget.
Heck, even in purely quantitative surveys sometimes there can be a scaling data volume cost. Good data acquisition is about balancing a lot of different variables to optimise your output
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