08/21/08, 8:40 AM
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Church of the Bristlecone
Dextor
<Elitist Jerks>
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Infraction for Trogdor: Useless Post
Post: [Hunter] WotLK Talents & Abilities Discussion
User: Trogdor
Infraction: Useless Post
Points: 1
Administrative Note:
Message to User:
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You posted twice when you really only needed to post once. I'm giving you an infraction for not reading the rule on this, and merging this post with the one preceding it.
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Original Post:


Originally Posted by Zurai
You specifically asked us to correct you if the math was wrong. We did, and you took umbrage to it.
As for the comparative math, using your numbers and just correcting the rounding, we get 21.685 DPS and 42 MP5. Those are a 7.8% difference and a 5% difference, respectively. Simply by correcting one small rounding error, we got a result that was almost 10% different from your result. The actual magnitude of the numbers isn't big, true, but you give every indication that you'd use this same style of "math" in all cases, and when you're calculating expected DPS over an entire fight, a 7.8% difference can mean 200-300 actual DPS being lost in translation.
The amusing/frustrating thing about this is that you apparently don't even realize that, by ignoring the average case, you're making your entire conclusion vastly less reliable as you decrease your sample size, which is what you've given as the strength of your reasoning. As sample size decreases, the results will deviate more and more from the average, and you've said many times that you object to results deviating from the average by very much.
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Well that's because I don't care about a 1.685 DPS difference.. or a 2 MP5 difference. You're looking at 7.8% and 5%, and yeah that seems a lot. But I'm looking at the end. Is a 1.685 DPS difference such a big deal when it's compared to 1500+ DPS output? Is a 2 MP5 difference so big when it's compared to 150+ MP5? To me it doesn't, and I don't choose to stress over such little details because there are more important things to me. I'm also not telling people they shouldn't stress about it, because if they want to.. sure do it.
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