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« on: May 08, 2012, 04:04:09 AM »
As someone who has studied statistics I would like to add a couple of comments.
Firstly you have to consider the responce bias, who is more likely to click yes to participating in a survey. This would trend the data a little, at a guess, to those who are proud of their systems so could make a lean towards higher end systems.
Secondly and more simply you have to remember that this is not a survey that is representative of players as a whole but a random selection taken from active steam users. This means that people who may only login to steam once in a blue moon and people who do not use steam are unnaccounted for and the results cannot be construed to represent these others.
Finally on a more positive light, the sheer amount of data points that steam collects would make the survey in most circles to be highly accurate about those who they surveyed so the numbers after some criticism is levied can be trusted for creating theories based on it.
Now speaking personally, I am surprised that Win7 got such a high level of take up. I had always heard that XP was still considered the largest user base. Perhaps this is because the steam survey probably cannot accurately assess the casual player which is in vast majority to the hardcore. I`m not surprised about the screen resolution because alot of people can afford a LCD screen now and even cheap ones tend to support 1080p native which is 1920x1080 tbh Im surprised it isnt higher.
