Final year project - I need you!
polycounter lvl 6
Hey guys!
I'm in my final year at university and for my main project I am doing a small investigation into video games and their relationship with players. I would really appreciate it if you could take 2-5minutes of your time to fill out my survey!
Survey Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YR6T8TH
Thanks a lot!
I'm in my final year at university and for my main project I am doing a small investigation into video games and their relationship with players. I would really appreciate it if you could take 2-5minutes of your time to fill out my survey!
Survey Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YR6T8TH
Thanks a lot!
Replies
Are you aware of Hare's psychopathy checklist (Hare's PCL-S)? It is commonly used to determine if someone is a psychopath. I'm sure if you applied it to your survey results, a number of people will be diagnosed to be that. This doesn't mean that they really are psychopaths. And then this doens't mean that they play violent games because they are, or they became psychopaths because they played violent games.
I filled out your survey but be aware that your conclusion from it's result may be very contextual.
I appreciate the heads up and I agree that its difficult to define the 'cause and effect', its the main problem with survey's. Thanks for filling it out though
Yeah, I did, and a few people had a problem with the last one so I adjusted it. There is a difference but what difference I cannot say as it would affect the results.
It's a lot shorter than the last one, so I would appreciate you fill it out for us.
Cheers!
A few questions though:
1.What is the difference between "bloody violence" and "gore"?
2.If you're going to specify hand and weapon combat, why not vehicle or environment combat?
3.When does negligible violent content turn into "no violent content"; or conversely when does noticeable violent combat become "extreme violent content?"
4.How do questions 6 and 7 relate to the survey content?
I don't quite think surveys alone are the reason why cause and effect are difficult to determine, after all, it's just a list of questions. It's the questions themselves that matter, no? That's like excusing the act of asking questions as being the reason one cannot find answers. Seems a bit ridiculous once one thinks about it.
Abductive logic doesn't work because it doesn't allow you don't ask all the questions or gather all the data (or at least only works if your intention was to pigeonhole data into something that fit a preconceived notion.)
Also overtly sexual themes seem to have been neglected? I mean, if we're going to bypass use of inductive logic wholesale.
If this is your main project for your final year, I'd put a bit more thought into it.
hehe that would be a cool survey. "do extremely sexual computergames make you fap"
It's great that you've spotted I missed RTS/TBS, however I have given the respondent the option to type in the 'other' box....
answers:
1.so for example the player shoots the enemy, blood squirts out or splatters walls,etc. Gore, body parts start flying off.....Not all games feature character models that can be destroyed or disfigured, therefore I would consider 'bloody violence' and 'gore' two different things. Take Halo and Gears Of War, both feature violence, however they are different as there is a lot more gore present in Gears Of War.
I assumed that an individual would be able to tell that 'gore' is a step-up from 'bloody violence' however I was careless in that assumption.
2.Vehicles are vehicles until you mount/install a weapon on it. A tank, is a vehicle with a cannon on it, a weapon.
3. I asked the respondent "in your opinion" how violent is the content of their specified video games.
4. It helps in providing me with more information.
I have put thought into it, a lot more than how it may seem at this moment in time, but thank you for the feedback, and highlighting the confusion caused by my wording with questions 1 and 2!
I'd like to encourage everyone to continue filling out the questionnaire!
I don't know why you need our opinions if you're smarter than all of us. :thumbup:
I think 3 options or 4 at most would be better.
And our new bacon thread (is it a sticky yet?)
Whatever forum tech runs this website http://www.boards.ie/ has a 'Thanks' system which is pretty nice.
also why do none of these surveys looks at contact sports, there still games and have been people have been know to show extreme amounts of aggression, while playing them.
also causes, maybe the videos games or sports is just a release for anger and aggression, and not a cause.
Sounds a lot like his last survey.
Questions like this just make me feel like you are waiting for me to type something along the lines of ' I get frustrated by most games as I cant kill the players at other end of their screen, I want to eat their heart infront of them and shower in their blood'
When nearly all my frustrations from games would be from players not knowing the game or a bad ui/buggy game.
Dont get me wrong, I get what you are trying to get at from people but I honestly think you could have done it in a way more subtle way. For example built a game that gives you choices, maybe build two parallel levels in a game and the only difference is the gore, see how many people choose to play with more gore, guts etc monitor heart rates from that. Idk, that actually sounds pretty terrible and flawed after typing it but I feel it is a better way to go about finding such things.