Quote Originally Posted by Democratus View Post
Do you have any evidence to show that the race/class surveys are lies or manipulations?
Ah, you've made an assumption based on the title of the book. The book is concerned with how statistics can mislead, not all of which is intentional.

Basically all surveys of people will have multiple inherent biases and most surveys have areas of ambiguity that require interpretation. Professionals and experts involved with making and running surveys try to mitigate these flaws and still semi-regularly come to incorrect conclusions. Based on past experience with WotC, it's surveys and results I simply have no faith that they would pay for professional survey and analysis services. So, not saying that anything iffy is going on, just that I think they have shoddy surveys that they analyze based on their own unchallenged assumptions.