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FlightSim Community Survey 2018 (15,000 Respondents)

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Just in case you were wondering what sims you should be concentrating on, this will definitely help you decide:
http://blog.navigraph.com/post/181243982766/flightsim-community-survey-2018-results

Most interesting take-aways, (at least for me):
  • X-Plane has now (just) overtaken P3D.
  • FSX (original and Steam Edition combined) still has a decent market share.


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There's a whole list of other demographic info in there.

Time for me to learn the ins and outs of X-Plane.
 
Interesting statistics indeed.
 
If you review that graph and conclude X-Plane has overtaken Prepar3D... you aren't really understanding what the graph is actually indicating. One reason I ignore statistics... too open to interpretation.
 
It certainly pays off to take a closer look at the composition of those bars.
 
WarpD said:
If you review that graph and conclude X-Plane has overtaken Prepar3D... you aren't really understanding what the graph is actually indicating. One reason I ignore statistics... too open to interpretation.
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While I agree that this method of presenting the stats is different from, for example, a pie chart which shows only the number one choice of simulators for the 15,000 users, the graph denotes time spent flying a chosen simulator compared to other simulators available. If one would like to see only the number 1 sim in use, it is easy to see from the dark blue bars that P34 is still by far the most frequently used.
But if one assumes that a user would have had to select never, sometimes, or frequently for each option presented, I don't see why the conclusion I came to above is not a logical one.

This method allows for people who may use more than 1 sim, while still showing that, cumulatively, among a shared user base, users prefer flying XP over P3D.
If there is another way to interpret this, I am open to hearing it.
 
No.... the question allowed the participant to select "most of the time" for more than one sim. As example, you could select "most of the time" for both Prepar3D v4 and X-Plane 11. As I've already stated, it doesn't indicate what you believe at all.
 
I don't see how you saying that the participant was allowed to select "most of the time" for more than one sim, is different from me saying that a user would have had to select one for each option presented.
I'm not trying to argue, since we seem to be on the same page there; I'm still interested in hearing how you interpreted it, as I haven't heard that yet.
 
The resulting graph for each sim in that question is independent. There is nothing preventing the respondent from selecting the exact same response for every sim listed. The combined responses for X-Plane 11 and Prepar3D v4 alone exceed a value of 100%. Statistical impossibility, especially if you are attempting to show an 'overall percentage' of sim use by respondents, which is what you're trying to state the results indicate. They do not indicate that at all. If you want to see if there is an increase of X-Plane versus Prepar3D... you would have to compare the results of the exact same question from last year to the exact same question from this year. Only then, by indicating where the response levels have changed between years based on usage frequency selection can you even begin to correlation a possible change in sim usage. In the end, that graph does not indicate that either sim is actually used by more people. It just isn't that kind of data due to the design of the question/response.
 
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No problem. Personally, I believe that the use of X-Plane has grown a great deal with the release of v11.
 
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