Dude, all these takes are full of bias. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous. You can claim it's "feat-based" all you want, but the interpretations of those feats are WILDLY subjective. Obviously, based on the debates. It is my opinion, as well as apparently that of others here, that this board and these polls have been very biased in favor of Thor in terms of interpreting power displays, and we're interpreting the same feats as everyone else. Which is how it turned into a Thor vs. Hela debate.
And no one would even be surprised to see Hela show up in Endgame totally unharmed, which speaks to the level of her power, imo.
I hear you. But, of course I can claim that, two other posters and I CREATED this system Flickchick. And Of COURSE we took biases into consideration, we had discussions headed by Surfer about this over year ago when ranking characters, this is why we use polls, color coding, and the votes available to view. We made contingencies. Characters need feats, and need to battle certain characters within their tiers to move around - we dont just *place a character* in a tier. There were a number of things we put into place to try to minimize the impact a variable such as bias had over a particular character. Color coding, and vote viewings and few others allow this. Statistics are always full of bias, but we've had enough sample sizes to at least find the votes reliable.
With sample sizes like this, the measures needed to quantify the impact such biases have statistically on these polls, as you claim, would take A LOT of number crunching, which isn't something any of us would be prepared to do. But we did what we had to do - and this is coming from a perfectionist clinician who has also worked in research and statistics - the methodology needed to validate your bias claim - while legitimate - is very real, and would need data to prove...attempting to do that poses ATLEAST some risk..the same as not doing it.
But mind this. My point seems to have been missed. It is that, we created a system that the three of us worked very hard on to create. Each tier has criteria that we set, and a battle system which considers biases we use to rank and place them. If ALL takes are biased, as you state, it makes it even easier. Again, the characters are accurately placed within the context of the system BT, Surfer and I worked very hard on to create. If you want to disregard the methodology we used to create this project because you feel it doesn't take biases that inaccurately ranks a character into consideration that's fine. But again, trying to explain it away doesn't change the fact that these characters are accurately ranked within the context of the ranking system we created.
However, I don't want this to get heated, or escalated. We can agree to disagree on this matter and move onto the next battle. Good to see you again, I haven't been around in a while.
Also, BT, thank you again for really taking the reigns here in Surfer's and my more recent again absense. After recovering from Guillian Barre, I have been very busy with grad school, reapplying to a different school actually, so I've been occupied with GRE studying, and just started a new job!
I still would like to post battles, but it will probably be a little while before I am able to again. But I havent forgotten and I still think about it every weekend
