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My name is Dr Guy Porter, a clinical researcher based in Sydney, Australia. I am part of a team of researchers headed by Dr Vladan Starcevic, Associate Professor at the Discipline of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney.
We are investigating patterns of video game use, both online and offline. Specifically, our project aims to determine the characteristics and impact of excessive video game use.
We are looking for video game users from all backgrounds and who play all types of video games to take part in an anonymous online survey.
This project is not for profit and has received ethics committee approval by The University of Sydney.
If you’d like to take part, please follow the link below to our website:
http://www.nepean.med.usyd.edu.au/research/psych.php
(The survey can be found at the top right corner)
-Dr Guy Porter
Clinical Researcher
For:
A/Prof Vladan Starcevic
Discipline of Psychological Medicine
University of Sydney
Australia
We are investigating patterns of video game use, both online and offline. Specifically, our project aims to determine the characteristics and impact of excessive video game use.
We are looking for video game users from all backgrounds and who play all types of video games to take part in an anonymous online survey.
This project is not for profit and has received ethics committee approval by The University of Sydney.
If you’d like to take part, please follow the link below to our website:
http://www.nepean.med.usyd.edu.au/research/psych.php
(The survey can be found at the top right corner)
-Dr Guy Porter
Clinical Researcher
For:
A/Prof Vladan Starcevic
Discipline of Psychological Medicine
University of Sydney
Australia
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If there's a lot of shaky people scared to leave the house, and a lot of those types play a lot of videogames, that's significant regardless of the causal relationship.
Just to answer some of your concerns:
We are certainly not setting out to try to link video game use to all of life's problems. Indeed video game use has many benefits. What we are concerned with is the concept of 'excessive' use - what does this actually mean? Can it be defined? Yes the questions in the second part of the survey ask you about various negative emotions / experiences over the last 7 days, but we will not be assuming that these are necessarily related to video games. Of course people have other problems - this will be taken into account in the interpretation of the results.
I was recently interviewed by the Australian PC magazine 'Atomic' about our work. You may find the article interesting as they covered our current project and also asked me about my views on Jack Thompson!
The link is:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?CIID=104069
cheers,
Dr Guy Porter
Thanks for continuing the thread. I certainly understand the need to reduce / eliminate spam from forums.
You understand, but do you empathise?
What the hell does this have to do with gaming?
-Well ok... I did make that one illegal copy of Mortal Kombat back in the 90s.
Does he denounce and reject the spammers?
Edit: It made me feel a lot better about myself. I'm a pretty easy going guy and got to answer "not at all" to most everything.
Yes, I have heavy arms and legs from working out a sore back because of an old football injury. Asking about overeating in the past seven days right after Easter is about the same as asking the question right after Thanksgiving or Christmas. Everyone in the American Primaries thread has likely had the urge to beat someone in the last week. Though I suppose if they weren't bothered by it, the correct response is the same as somebody who hasn't had the urge to beat anyone.
If you ever need to talk to someone, feel free to message me. Yes, that includes you.
Yeah, particularly if you have kids in the house and shopped for Easter candy at a wholesale club. :P
Have I had the urge to yell at someone? I've got a 12-year-old and a 3-year-old, of course I have.
Tired? I work full time plus raise 2 kids, what do YOU think?
It skips like 9 or so percent each page when you're going through the easy stuff, but now that I'm on the 10 question per page clickathon, it only moves up like two percent.
It's a shady use of percentages, and I don't brook it, no sir!
On the black screen
This.
Edit: Though incidentally explicitly looking only for a correlation and not trying to say anything with it coupled with the failure to get any information that could suggest anything about causation strikes me as a way of getting the numbers to say what you want without having to actually prove it by relying on the fact that the majority of people who are going to read about it in the news don't know the difference between correlation and causation in the first place.
That question was Per Week?! Shit I thought it was per day!
I didn't answer any questions about nicotine, so I'm curious why you think this, unless you're just saying that he's comparing videogames to nicotine in their addictive qualities somehow, which I also don't really see, but it's more of a possibility.
I did. And I believe that at least half the question were trying to redefine "excessive use" as addiction.
Shit, when I do my research, finding participants is like pulling teeth. This is likely on of many, many outlets he's using to gather participants.
Personally I think the DSM just needs to put Addiction as a disorder, and have it open as to what the addiction is to -- similar to the way they have Specific Phobia in there now, because there are too many phobias to list individually. Anything can become psychologically addictive.
Sure, some people are addicted to video games, lots aren't. Some people are addicted to eating, some are addicted to exercise, some to the internet, tv, whatever. That doesn't make any of those things inherently bad.
I think B is a more prevalent problem than A. The public at large doesn't understand that correlation is not causation, and they hear something on the news about a correlation between the increase in local hippo populations and increases in the number of dogs disappearing and they assume the hippos are killing the dogs.
In this particular case it's hard to say what the experimenter's agenda is because those are the same kind of survey questions you'd ask if you were trying to say that there were no negative addictive effects from videogames.
Though I pretty much can't stand survey research -- especially internet surveys -- because they have quite a few drawbacks.