Elite: Dangerous Mega Survey Results

[babelfisch]

The majority* do play in a multi-player mode....

*: of those who participated in the poll and are actually players that is.

I just asked my grandma and she doesn't play Elite at all

 

[YakSick]

It would really help if you would accept that we understand what a majority is by your definition. There is no need to explain it again and again, we already new that before this thread...

You don't understand.

 

[babelfisch]

Indeed it is. However, the entire argument stems from this:


When counting votes, stating that something has the majority automatically infers that one group received more than half of the votes. That what majority means in the context of a vote (it doesn't matter how many votes options there are).

I suspect this 12 page argument, stems from each person's interpretation of Driver's post.
From my perspective, Driver is incorrect. The majority have not voted for Open Play.

So it's all Drivers fault.

It's definitely a relative majority though

You don't understand.

I do. I always did. I repeatedly said that Russel and Cagman are correct.

 

[S3B4ST13N]

How about Open and PG instead?

Then, as I mentioned, Open holds the plurality. They hold the most votes, but they don't hold more than half of the votes.

 

[JosiahD]

Redacted.

 

[Ouberos]

An irony im enjoying right now is that while we are all on here flinging Oxford concise quotes back and forth and knifing each other in the feelies it's fair to say the majority of us aren't actually playing Elite in any mode.

 

[S3B4ST13N]

It's definitely a relative majority though

Oh absolutely.

To those reading this, a relative majority is also known as a plurality.

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

No they did not get a majority of the share... they got what is called a Plurality. Read up about it and learn the difference between Majority and Plurality, and we will never again have to discuss this matter.

I know the meaning of the two. Plurality is votes in an election. Are we electing people here. That is what Theresa May got and needed a deal to get an absolute majority over everybody else. We are not talking about absolute majorities or elections. The word majority does not mean the same as overall or absolute majority.

 

[S3B4ST13N]

Agreed but doesn't change that a majority needs to be >50%, electoral analogy or not. None of the modes has a majority on their own though.

Apart from Open's relative majority / plurality .. holding most votes, but not more than half.

 

[Arkadi]

It's to be someons fault in the end!

But what?

wut?

you mean?

faulty!

yes!

who?

You?

no, you.

Let's enjoy times shortly after kindergarten. This were the times.

or Oasis: Definitly Maybe.

smoke more Onionhead.

 

[S3B4ST13N]

Right .. are we all on the same page now... can we get back to the actual thread?

.. Or has someone else got something we can argue over?

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

Indeed it is. However, the entire argument stems from this:


When counting votes, stating that something has the majority automatically infers that one group received more than half of the votes. That what majority means in the context of a vote (it doesn't matter how many votes options there are).

I suspect this 12 page argument, stems from each person's interpretation of Driver's post.
From my perspective, Driver is incorrect. The majority have not voted for Open Play.

So it's all Drivers fault.

I don't see 777Driver mention overall or absolute majority there either.

 

[Cageman]

How about Open and PG instead?

What about it? Do you have a specific question regarding the poll results?

 

[S3B4ST13N]

I don't see 777Driver mention overall or absolute majority there either.

As I said, interpretation. I (and others) interpreted it to mean he was saying Open had the overall majority.

 

[Ozric]

I already answered your second point. As for the first, yes I could see how many duplicate submissions there were, and the number was irrelevant.

Correct, you did. You didn't contact Frontier.

I can't even remember what information you had to put in when filling out the survey, but even if it was email addresses you have no way of knowing how many different email addresses one person used. Even if Frontier did an official poll tied to the launcher (so they were guaranteed to own the game) it still wouldn't mean one person one vote, as many people have multiple accounts.

 

[babelfisch]

What about it? Do you have a specific question regarding the poll results?

You said Solo and PG are a majority. They aren't because they aren't connected. Otherwise Open and PG would be a majority or Open and Solo... So, which one is it?

 

[Arkadi]

That's cool. Finally I can carry on playing tell tale games "game of thrones" episode six to the end..

 

[babelfisch]

Right .. are we all on the same page now... can we get back to the actual thread?

.. Or has someone else got something we can argue over?

I'd like to debate if the majority of the most recent posts was a waste of time.

 

[S3B4ST13N]

Correct, you did. You didn't contact Frontier.

I can't even remember what information you had to put in when filling out the survey, but even if it was email addresses you have no way of knowing how many different email addresses one person used. Even if Frontier did an official poll tied to the launcher (so they were guaranteed to own the game) it still wouldn't mean one person one vote, as many people have multiple accounts.

Hopefully Frontier do a survey similar to this; as they did with that Instant/Delayed ship transfer poll.
Just log into the website, do the survey - done and dusted.
Use that information to improve the game.
Publish the results when it's done.

 

[Heater]

OP, Thanks for putting this together....
Just Hope FD does something with it, Like removing CQC from the stats in Game