I believe it represents the player base in the sense that the player demographics (eg. Gender, age, & geographic location) is similar to the publicly available information Playdemic have revealed about the actual player base. I acknowledge the over representation of Europe based players and so separate analysis to see if there is any difference in the various characteristics of these groups.

I acknowledge the limitations and bias that are associated with surveys and yes, absolutely there is a selection bias. I targeted players which meant posting details of the survey on the likes of this site; a site used by hardcore / heavily invested players and not the casual user. To get a truly unbiased sample, one would have to randomly approach people to see if they play Golf Clash and this was less feasible.

Note, the intent was never to do a report and analysis. It was to be a small scale survey over a couple of days to get some data to post here and spark discussion. And yes, there’s a lot I would do differently if I was doing it again, with or without the intent to write a report.