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Limp Gawd
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Still waiting on that hypothesis (note I said hypothesis, not conclusions).
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Negative Decibel - Thanks for checking out the survey. Curious what your specific psychometric concerns are? Just so you know, each of the quantitative measures used in the survey have demonstrated strong validity and reliability detailed in more than 1 article per measure published in peer-reviewed, scholarly medical and psychological journals.
Ok, now say that in English.
BTW, completed the survey.
Hi everyone, thought I'd stop by to try to answer a few questions and let you know that the survey will be closed at the end of the night on Friday.
Appreciate a lot of the interest - but wow - some of ya'll are a tough crowd! Not to say that's unreasonable, healthy skepticism is a good thing. I do hope you can appreciate that without knowing the full spectrum of the actual dissertation, some of you are making a lot of assumptions about my knowledge/opinions/goals without having the full set of facts in regard to the purpose of a survey. I've tried to share as much as I can without compromising responses. I am fully aware of the broad spectrum of gaming on the PC. I purposefully limited the scope of the study and there are methods to the madness.
Everyone certainly is within their right to ask questions or state concerns. I realize that for some this is potentially a hot button topic and I welcome a healthy discussion. I've tried to be active in responding to everyone, but I guess there's not a lot to comment on in response to the folks stating vague criticisms without any specific evidence or support for those critiques. I'm making no claims to trying to study every possible gamer or genre. Nowhere am I defining what constitutes "PC Gamers" - there are a number of questions on the survey and, again, the meaning you may be attaching to what the sum of the answers to those questions equal is most likely inaccurate without sitting on the other side of a study. Without context, a survey is just a series of questions.
I'm trying not to be overly defensive and have encountered an expected amount of snarky internet responders during the course of this dissertation, but it is something I've spent a few years researching and exploring and have great passion for, so cut me a little slack if that sounded curt, it's not intended to be.
Anyhow, all things considered the response rate/thread views/replies from this forum has been one of the best I've encountered throughout this whole process. I genuinely appreciate the enthusiastic responses from such passionate gamers - it's been a good trip.
Thanks again,
Nate
Took the survey, gave an explanation at the end. I've played MMOs in the past, so I was able to answer some of the questions.
The survey is reasonable if you're trying to look for people who are typically categorized as having gaming addictions: MMO gamers, online Console gamers, and social/browser MMOs like Farmville. But not if you're looking for a general cross-section of gamers (just to keep in mind).
The structure of the survey may dissuade some PC gamers who have addictive tendencies from answering well after deciding it's not for them by not fitting into any of the three categories. Starcraft:Broodwar and Starcraft2 are great examples of games that people have been hospitalized over that don't fit into any of the categories. Team Fortress 2 and Counterstrike and other PC FPS games also don't fit in well.
It's not necessary, but in the future, a category for 'online PC' games that aren't an MMO or browser game may help you get some more responses.