On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Rokenn Swiftsong wrote:

> of stat buffs. The Shaman that ran the test came to the conclusion that
> that buffing Str had a negative impact on damage. Here is a link to the
> thread:
>
> http://www.soerbaird.com/forums/Forum16/HTML/001893.html
>
> I would love to read John's comments on this :)

If you look at the histograms, you can see it's obvious the
sample size is not big enough. Except for the peaks at 2x
weapon damage (very odd indeed, I have a couple theories on
that brewing...), basically there is no pattern. If he ran a
standard deviation on his damage values, I suspect it'd be
pretty clear the st. dev. exceeds the damage variation for
different str/dex values (which is another way of saying your
results are statistically insignificant - you need a variation
of at least 3 st. dev. to be significant, i.e. less than a 5%
probability of occurring due to random chance).

--
John H. Kim
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