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Article #99Re: Doom is NOT Dead; The Rating System is Skewed
From: mor...
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 20:29
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 20:29
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I have been following this thread for a while hoping that someone knowledgeable would comment on this so called 'survey'. It is by no means a represention of the people who 1) buy computer games, 2) play computer games or 3) are users of electronic bulletin boards. It is a survey of those people interested enough to send a reply to the collector AND BY THAT NATURE is therefore skewed. People who play a particular game may have less access or be less willing to participate in the survey. Something I find not very difficult to understand. This survey even with a 26 week limit is still subject to a form of 'ballot stuffing' as a result. I would estimate that (and this somewhat conjecture) that the effects of twenty people could significantly skew the results. Voluntary surveys are notoriously bad.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!scipio.cyberstore.ca!vanbc.wimsey.com!unixg.ubc.ca!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!tribune.usask.ca!admin.usask.ca!morphy From: mor...@admin.usask.ca () Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc Subject: Re: Doom is NOT Dead; The Rating System is Skewed Date: 22 Jul 1994 20:29:00 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <30pa6c$51n@tribune.usask.ca> References: <30eje6$ceu@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <30h3lnINN4l1@uwm.edu> <hilman.774681160@ichips.intel.com> <30jtr3$dj5@cronkite.cisco.com> <30lakp$ce6@illuminati.io.com> <1994Jul21.160734.9284@integrity.uucp> <30n6ek$gl2@illuminati.io.com> Reply-To: mor...@admin.usask.ca () NNTP-Posting-Host: wyvern.usask.ca X-Newsreader: mxrn 6.18-4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit