Before you start making plans to evict your current rig, I want to explain how the Steam Hardware Survey actually works. Rather than representing every player that uses the storefront, the monthly census instead uses a small percentage of participants who’ve opted in as a sample. It’s anything but representative of all 154 million active users, meaning the statistic above isn’t an absolute.
Does the author know how *survey sample sizes work?
Do I?
Is it because it’s opt in or opt out?
While it is opt-in, it requires almost no user input other than agreeing. Everything is automated and takes just a few seconds.
I’m willing to bet the number of people that opt out is so small that it is statistically irrelevant.