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Originally Posted by fortior
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Yeah, no, this is not how it works. You have to show that the characteristics of the polled people are sufficiently similar to the characteristics of the population you're trying to infer something about.
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Actually, yeah, it is how it works. While voluntary non-probability samples aren't the ideal, they aren't invalid to draw inferences from. It has a lower generalizability than the type of sample you described, but that doesn't invalidate it. It is often impractical or impossible to draw a perfectly representative sample of a population, and a significant amount of research is done via polling methods that use alternate methods such as an open poll.
The only bias I can see in play here is that the poll is more likely to attract players that participate in the scout roll, which is actually a good thing since the population we are concerned with is players that participate in the roll, not 100% of the players on p99.
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You can't, because there's a reason prolific forum posters are called forumquesters. Ingame /OOC is simply too neurotypical for the P99 forums to be an accurate representation of the P99 ingame population.
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Thank you for your subjective, speculative opinion on the correlation between players who participate in the forums and players who participate in the game. I say the p99 forums
are an accurate representation of the p99 in game population, so there!!!
Also, I would strongly disagree that in game /OOC is anything close to neurotypical.