I don’t have any evidence either way…which is precisely why I wouldn’t say what ‘most players’ do.
The whole point about personal experience is not that it is generic for everyone…quite the reverse. It is that it provides precisely the ability to refute ‘most players’ type arguments or ’ XYZ is making noobs leave’ type arguments.
Thus when people say ‘ganking makes people leave’…I can at least say, well it didn’t make me leave, and that at least counts as a data point against the argument. So its not a case of arguing that one’s experience is global…rather it is the ability to argue against global arguments.