Stew Woods
Australia
Wellard
Western Australia
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Fellow Gamers,
I am currently researching my doctoral thesis on differing understandings and experiences of games and play and would like to ask you all for your help.
The link below is to a survey which asks a little about who you are, your gaming habits and how you understand and experience the social contract of gaming.
The survey has a number of open-ended questions so, depending on how inclined you are to wax lyrical on the topic, this should take between 5 minutes and half an hour. (Fortunately, should you decide half way through that you don't have the time, the survey will recall your IP address so you can return later)
All responses are completely anonymous and no-one will be identified in the final thesis.
Should you care to help me out and take the survey I would be most appreciative (though unable to reward you in any way as my ethics committee frowns on that kind of thing!)
You can, however, walk away with the knowledge that you will have helped me out enormously by taking a little time out...
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Nn6DHFjX42qFhEOkaxywFw...
Thanks ever so in advance,
Stew
PS. If I promise that I'm no thumb-slut, I would also appreciate your giving this post a wee thumbs up to keep it towards the front page for a little while - this will increase exposure and enable me to get more responses. (And I promise to give all the thumbs gathered in this way to a charity, honest!)
Edit: Spelling Error, dang!
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my eye
United States
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
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Interesting survey. I'd love to see some sort of tabulation of the data. Or at least your synopsis.
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Ross Gerke
United States
Indianapolis
Indiana
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Stale pastry is hollow succor to a man who is bereft of ostrich.
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earache wrote: Interesting survey. I'd love to see some sort of tabulation of the data. Or at least your synopsis.
I'll second that.
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Brad N
United States
Madison
Wisconsin
There are 7 games I want to play by June 30th, 2012
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Cool. I took the survey and would also like to see any results that come out of it if possible. I wish you the best with your thesis!
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Chris Talbot
Canada
Fort Smith
Northwest Territories
Be seeing you... -Alphonse
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Survey taken. I'll parrot others before me: I'd be interested in seeing the collected data in its entirety or at least an executive summary of the report.
Chris
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Dennis Ugolini
United States
San Antonio
Texas
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This is not a criticism, but input I thought you'd like to have.
I was completely stumped by the question about individual game mechanics. For all of them, I could think of multiple games that I enjoy and multiple games that I can't stand, and thus "rarely enjoy" seemed too negative and "usually enjoy" seemed too positive. In order to answer honestly, I feel I have to leave this entire question blank.
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Neil Cook
United Kingdom
Burton on Trent
Staffs
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Done.
And I'll add my voice to those above... Any chance of seeing the final results?
Good luck with your thesis.
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Marshall Miller
United States
Medford
Massachusetts
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Some of the questions and anchors were a bit vague.
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David Levin
United States
Cortlandt Manor
New York
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Done. Good luck with your research. And I agree that it would be nice to see some of the data or results.
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♫ Eric Herman ♫
United States
West Richland
Washington
I like elephants. I like how they swing through trees.
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Done. Good survey and I'd also like to see the results.
I would have preferred your survey have an "important" option between "quite important" and "not very important", as "luck" would have received an "important" vote. I like games that have some degree of randomness, but not too much outright luck, unless it can be mitigated by strategy/tactics, so I felt like neither "quite important" or "not very important" was a good choice.
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Michael Buccheri
United States
Glen Arm
Maryland
Sweet Holy Moses, Fruit F*cker Prime!
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You should post this also on consimworld for better results.
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Dave Story
United States
Roseville
California
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Took the survey, and hope it ultimately provides you with the data you're looking for. However, I think drawing your participant pool from BGG members will give you somewhat skewed results in contrast to a random population sampling.
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David Colvin
United States
Lenexa
Kansas
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I just finished taking the survey. Nice job. I, too, would like to hear the results.
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Dane Peacock
United States
Stansbury Park
Utah
That tickles
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I just checked on wikipedia and I think I got question 13 wrong. Can I retake it?
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Annick Jean
United States
Burlington
Vermont
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I have to agree with Dave. I would hope that you are sampling some more casual boardgamers.
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Kane Klenko
United States
Ridgeway
Wisconsin
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Done.
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Bianca G
Germany
Frankfurt
Hessen
Come to the dark side - we have cookieees.
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Please let us know the results!
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Allen Vailliencourt
United States
Greer
South Carolina
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malloc wrote: You should post this also on consimworld for better results.
Is consimworld a larger site than BGG? I've only visited it in the past and it's confusing layout has always turned me off..hehe..
just curious...
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Byl Kravetz
United States
Nampa
Idaho
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there you go. you have my invaluable data.
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Ben Foy
United States
Ellicott City
Maryland
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I think I broke the survey.
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Valerie Putman
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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Good luck with the survey!
To those of you who took it, I understand the frustration over the 4 pt scale (as opposed to a 5 pt scale with a more neutral response). But keep in mind that the 4 pt scale was likely intentional in an effort to force you to choose one way or the other. Too often when subjects are given a neutral response they will choose it nearly every time. Forced choice can be an effective tool.
Consider the following.... What if you wanted to know which behavior gamers hated more--cheating or whining. If you asked, "which type of gamer are you less likely to play with, someone who cheats or someone who whines?" I am guessing that most of us would prefer to have a third option--I'd rather not play with cheaters or whiners. But if the questionnaire offered that choice then most of us would pick it and the experimenter wouldn't learn anything about what we think is worse.
I also think that it is perfectly acceptable to identify the population as hobby gamers. Yes, the results will not generalize to casual gamers, but that might not be the authors intent. Casual gamers wouldn't recognize enough of the mechanics or examples to answer intelligently. Clearly his dissertation committee was okay with a more narrowed population--so let's rejoice that we're getting some attention!
Making a good survey (and analyzing the results--especially on open ended questions!) is a difficult beast! I commend Stewart for tackling it!
Valerie Putman
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Kevin Brown
United States
Macon
Georgia
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Done. I'd say that the line between misleading people about your intentions and backstabbing is quite thin.
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Sue Hemberger
Washington
Dist of Columbia
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Forced choice led me to choose not to finish the survey. When any answer you could give is clearly a misrepresentation of your preferences, it seems pointless to answer.
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Rich
United States
West Lafayette
Indiana
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Done. Good luck with your thesis.
Heh. Should known we'd have people bitching about mechanics on BGG, even about surveys.
"Take the survey? I'd rather just play Monopoly!"
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Mark Campo
United Kingdom
Radcliffe
lancashire
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one of the questions rate chaos
very important maybe important not important, then INSIGNIFICANT
well i dont like Chaos, so its Very important its not there,
its not insignficant because its signficant i dont want it.
so nto sure what to tick there, insignificant maybe should be undesirable instead?
I like luck i dont like chaos does make make sense either?
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