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FrothySolutions posted...

That's not what you said. You said even if the poll results are going down, and board usage is going down, and everything else is going down, that somehow doesn't mean overall site usage is going down.

I said, from the beginning, that not everything is connected. For example, I said multiple times that the poll voters going down does not mean the user are necessarily going down. They CAN be connected, but it doesn't have to be. Which makes it a bad metric to count users. Which many people have also said.

FrothySolutions posted...

I already said, going board to board asking people is still a handful of people. Not reflective of how many people as a whole use the site. I don't need to count every individual hit on the site to know that it's more than can reliably be polled on even the most active of boards here. I don't need exact numbers to know that it's "a lot."

Going board to board is better than guessing based on what you want it to be, though. And doing that also gets you a sample size. Tbh, it sounds like the reason you don't want to ask is because you know you have the possibility of being wrong. And while sample sizes aren't always right they are a way to gauge certain things in research. And when people do research, lots of them include sample sizes. You don't need to count every user. But counting some is better than puling a random number out of your ass because it matches what you want it to match. If you want people to actually listen to what you have to say or believe you, at least do more than make up numbers to fit your research.
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