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I'm looking for Video Gamers for an online survey
VideoGameScientist
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Hello Video Gamer
I study psychology at the University of Basel in Switzerland and I'm passionate about playing Video Games (since birth).
So, it's obvious that the topic of my master thesis is about Video Gamers, isn't it? ;-)
(Don't worry! I won't push neither the addiction nor the violence question any further! I want to know more about the Video Gamers themselves.)
Now I'm looking for you Video Gamers.
This survey can be completed online on every browser in about 10 to 15 minutes.
You would do me (and the research of Video Games) a big favor, if you could take part and ev. forward my survey to other Video Gamers you know.
(I, unfortunately, had to learn, that it's not easy at all to find enough Video Gamers for my study.)
I really hope you can help me!
Link to the survey:
http://phpserver.psycho.unibas.ch/videogames_en/
Thank you so much!
You would do me a real favor!!
Best regards
Pat
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Patrick Keller, B.Sc.
Department of Cognitive Psychology
and Methodology
University of Basel
Faculty of Psychology
Missionstrasse 62A
4055 Basel
Switzerland
www.psycho.unibas.ch/keller
www.psycho.unibas.ch/mmi
www.psycho.unibas.ch
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I study psychology at the University of Basel in Switzerland and I'm passionate about playing Video Games (since birth).
So, it's obvious that the topic of my master thesis is about Video Gamers, isn't it? ;-)
(Don't worry! I won't push neither the addiction nor the violence question any further! I want to know more about the Video Gamers themselves.)
Now I'm looking for you Video Gamers.
This survey can be completed online on every browser in about 10 to 15 minutes.
You would do me (and the research of Video Games) a big favor, if you could take part and ev. forward my survey to other Video Gamers you know.
(I, unfortunately, had to learn, that it's not easy at all to find enough Video Gamers for my study.)
I really hope you can help me!
Link to the survey:
http://phpserver.psycho.unibas.ch/videogames_en/
Thank you so much!
You would do me a real favor!!
Best regards
Pat
=====================================
Patrick Keller, B.Sc.
Department of Cognitive Psychology
and Methodology
University of Basel
Faculty of Psychology
Missionstrasse 62A
4055 Basel
Switzerland
www.psycho.unibas.ch/keller
www.psycho.unibas.ch/mmi
www.psycho.unibas.ch
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As a general rule of thumb it is unwise to start your survey with asking how much someone earns: it is a very relevant question to ask in most surveys, but it is one that most people do not feel comfortable answering so they just pick the "no answer" option and move on. I always try to ask that question closer to the end, after answering a few interesting questions about the actual subject of the survey people often feel more comfortable telling you how much they earn - leading to more relevant data.
*edit: Uh, after a few pages I get an Error 502, going back one page and clicking [next] again fixes it, but it is kind of annoying.
"I prefer simple and short rather than long and complex video games."
I prefer games that are as long as they need to be.
"A video game must have a profound and enthralling story that is not too short."
Some games are better with good stories, some games aren't (does Tetris need a story? No.) I worry that you'll infer that when I answer "disagree" it means I don't like stories (which is the absolute opposite of the truth), but I'm clicking disagree because I disagree that all games must have a story.
I have to guess that at least some of the poorly or unclearly worded questions are that English is not his first language,.
That doesn't matter--posting a survey online and asking volunteers to fill it still won't give you good data, there's no way to tell if the people who bother to fill out the survey are statistically representative of the entire population. Even if his population was "all Penny Arcade members" this survey wouldn't give him good data since the survey respondents aren't randomly selected, they are self-selected.
well, forcing people to take a survey is unethical, so you have to rely on volunteers. and I would guess that he's advertising his survey in more places than the Penny Arcade forums.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH