Comment on Valve: Windows 11 market share on Steam drops to 41.61%

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Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I can’t find anything on the sample size. It’s not mentioned on the official page, and all the other results are armchair statisticians arguing about it in various forums. I’m guessing they want to keep that data close to their chest.

However, Steam’s charts page shows a peak of 34M players online at once over the last few days. A few different sites suggest Daily Average Users are around 60M. Let’s call it an even 50M for the sake of argument.

What would a decent sample size be without generating overwhelming amounts of data? Say, 10%? So that’s surveying 5M users.

0.3% of 5M is just 15,000 users. What if the survey just happened to pick 15k fewer Windows 11 users this time? Is that so unbelievable?

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