jsmith8045 opened this issue on Jan 10, 2012 · 48 posts
millighost posted Wed, 11 January 2012 at 11:56 AM
Quote - I'll post my response here as well as the sample population not truly being representative of customers that buy at DAZ.
If you glance over some of the charts it would imply that most of the participants are Platinum Club Poser users that are interested in figures and morphs that because of Genesis their purchases went down.
Actually, the charts do imply no such thing, except that most of them are platinum users. The rest is up to your imagination (and you seem to imagine that it is the platinum users who are interested in in figures and morphs).
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...Also the Gen4/Genesis characters sold more than those Gen4-only products as well. So either those were flukes or your sample population wasn't really representative of those who actually buys content here.
Or the fact that you sold more Genesis figures has absolutely nothing to do with the numbers that the survey has collected. Also it might be the case that the people who are buying those characters are not a representative sample of all daz customers, even if the survey was representative.
Quote - I'm going to go with the latter simply because all of the events that have occurred in the forums over the last few months that has caused so much negativity and releasing "unofficial" survey results such as this does nothing but to spread false facts and help reinforce the negativity, not enlighten.
I guess i agree in principle, but i think this survey bears no false facts. False facts and rumours are born by careless interpretation of numbers like these (like you tried above). But it seems to be a principle of human nature to see two roughly equally sized slices in two different pie charts and immediately to think they represent the same population which is just not the case. So when interpreting these numbers be very careful with using words like "because" and "imply", statistical and causal correlation are different things (especially when there practically is not even statistical correlation :-)