Do we understand Damage and DPS?

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As many of us agree in game, Damage and DPS relate to the power of our skills and basic attack respectively. Therefore, it would be easy to assume that the Arcane Maul would deal more damage than the Mythic Glaive. Then two warriors meet and find that the glave user deals more damage and everyone quickly claims a glitch. I will point out that the glaive has more armor so the mauls sheer power is reduced when attacking a glaive user. This is why the claim to a glitch was buried.

PvP Data:
Axe Throw: glaive dealt 50 more damage per hit on average.
Basic attack charged: maul dealt 60 more damage per hit
Basic attack uncharged​​​: maul dealt 40 more damage per hit.
*Bias was that we were not hitting the same target.

Today, I preformed a similar test (it started out as a test of whether or not Axe throw stuns) when the question was raised as to which weapon was better. The results were consistent with what I expected until we tested our basic attack. The maul, with far less DPS dealt more damage charged and uncharged than the glaive. We then went to Elite Rooks Nest and found the maul dealing more damage from its basic attacks but less from its skills even though we were both hitting the same target.

PvE Data:

Axe Throw: Glaive dealt 210 more damage per hit
Basic attack charged: Maul dealt 180 more damage per hit
Basic attack uncharged: Maul dealt 130 more damage per hit.
*this is the least biased data since we both hit the same target.

Precautions taken to remove bias:
-All pets were removed.
-Any hits that were critical was removed as faulty.
-Any hits that caused a peoc were ignored.
-Our data size was 5 hits each in PvP and 3 hits each in the Elite map.
-Both of us have similar passive, the only difference was armor for one of us and intelligence for the later.
-We both have the same points in Axe throw (the skill tested).
-All gear besides weapons was identical for each respective player.
-We took turns attacking so damage dealt could be properly associated with the dealer.
-The average of all data was rounded to the nearest tens place.

It should be noted that the maul user had more super gems than the glaive user. However, the stats page indicates that the glaive user had had more DPS and the Maul user had more Damage.

The Conclusion:
We may have all been wrong. Either DPS relates to our skills and Damage to pur basic attacks, or one of the two weapons tested (the Arcane Maul and Mythic Glaive) is glitched.

Please leave any critiques of my methodology, assessments of the data, or findings of your own in the comments. Additionally, special thanks to Venom for helping me with these tests.