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Bias in CMBO?


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One thing you have to realize is that the weak minded often see what does not exist in reality. The Bias against Germans, Bias against commonwealth, bias against this or that has its origination in people who are willing to believe with little data. Likely they are also the people who are willing to answer endless get rich quick spams and who believe USATODAY polls.

The best evidence of a tilt in CM, and it was of questionable value based on some data with no controls and no balancing, was that the attacker has a harder time of it in games, and that Germans are slightly more likely to win. BUT, it also showed that the players with higher win / loss ratios almost exclusively played Germans, so it is not clear if better players eventually stop playing allies or if they are better players because of it.

The best thing that can be said is that there may be a small bias for German. The data next said that British, followed by US, followed by other countries. This was all presented a long time ago and I took it with a great deal of sceptism, and still do. If the imperfect method of tracking Rugged Defense games were valid, than it was not amazing that it showed a small bias, but that it did not show as large a bias.

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