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People will need to think about the true capability of classes, and not just the builds inside their comfort zones, or the results will not be accurate.

You are correct from an objective "I need to know exactly what the best class is" perspective. I am also very concerned with how people view the classes. Do most people think that Bards are useless in melee combat (they often aren't), or that Fighters have no battlefield support?

I started filling out the survey and gave up on it. The scale is not sufficiently defined. As a statitician I found it irritating.

I could just decide on my own meaning to the 0-10 scale, but it feels different for each question.

Do my decisions about the scale for question 1 help me with the scale for question 4? Nope, I have to invent the middle of the scale myself again.

The standard Strongly Agree/Agree/Indifferent/Disagree/Strongly Disagree scale won't work on this question, but you might go for a Ineffective/Weakly Effective/Average Effectiveness/Above Average/Very Effective scale for 3 and 4. Question 1 could be No Experience/One Character in One Game Session/One Character in One Module/One Character in a Campaign/Many Characters and Many Game Sessions/Many Characters over Many Modules or Campaigns.

Thank you for your feedback! I really do understand your frustration, and appreciate that you gave me advice rather than just listing problems.

Unfortunately, I have not yet found a way to give midpoint references to the scale option of Google Forms. Though I now realize that the ranges could have been much more clearly presented, it really is a list of subjective questions. For the moment I will move forward as is, but I am already considering how I might improve and simplify for the future.

I have created a Pathfinder class analysis spreadsheet, and now I would like to fill it with data! The survey linked below has some questions on how well a class fills different roles in a party. If I get enough responses, I will be sure to post my results. Thank you!

Survey Link