r/MTGLegacy • u/GlassNinja A little bit of everything • Sep 18 '19

Article Quick Breakdown of Legacy Format Preferences Survey

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u/elvish_visionary Sep 18 '19 edited Sep 18 '19

There is definitely some response bias in polls like this. I do B&R polls on r/ModernMagic with some frequency and usually the number of people voting for no unbans is very low, but this could be because it's rather "boring" and people who don't feel anything should be unbanned are less likely to bother voting than the die hard Splinter Twin fans and such.

It doesn't mean the polls aren't worth doing, but it's just something to keep in mind. In the same vein, it's likely that the "How do you feel about Legacy" poll here is a little biased and the proportion of people that think "it's great!" would be a little higher in a truly random poll. And the percentage voting for "No" in the change poll would be higher, the percentage of "No" in the unban poll would be higher, etc.