Help me with my Research Paper: Survey #2B
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Xath
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DanMcS said:Your two polls (2a/2b), don't quite match, 2b is missing "Hygiene: superior". Not really sure what that option would mean, anyway; hygiene seems like a binary state to me, you either have it or you don't
Thanks. I noticed that, but I couldn't figure out how to go back in and edit it out. Hygiene: Superior isn't really supposed to be there.
Rystil Arden
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Is it okay to not pick an option for the last two? In particular, I neither flaunt nor hide my hobby from nongamers. I don't bring it up except when it comes up. And I tell them they should play too. For instance, I had a conversation yesterday where someone thought that D&D was a collectible game and I said "Nah, that's more Magic the Gathering. Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy roleplaying game. You should try it, it's fun." But the majority of acquaintances never learn that I play.
Joshua Randall
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Xath, from a survey design point of view, your 2A/2B has some (potentially) dangerous issues. Because there is no way to link up the individual respondents from 2A to their responses to 2B (or, indeed, if they even responded to both surveys at all), it is going to be hard to draw conclusions based on this data.
For example, if 95% of responses to 2B say "I am male" but only 80% of responses to 2A say "the stereotypical gamer is male", then what does this mean? It could mean that more women than men replied to 2A, or it could mean that while men are a supermajority of gamers (2B), for some reason they think more women play the game (2A). Or it could mean that a completely different, third group of people responded to 2A (over and above the 95% male group that responded to 2B) thereby skewing the results. Or it could mean something else entirely.
For example, if 95% of responses to 2B say "I am male" but only 80% of responses to 2A say "the stereotypical gamer is male", then what does this mean? It could mean that more women than men replied to 2A, or it could mean that while men are a supermajority of gamers (2B), for some reason they think more women play the game (2A). Or it could mean that a completely different, third group of people responded to 2A (over and above the 95% male group that responded to 2B) thereby skewing the results. Or it could mean something else entirely.
Xath
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Joshua Randall said:
How would you propose changing it? I realize that there are potential data-skewing issues, but I don't know that much about taking surveys. I also have some severe time constraints, in that I have to make "significant" progress on my research at least once per week, with a final proposal due in less than 2 weeks.
The Thayan Menace
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I'd ask for pictures, clothing samples, and testimony from game store employees.
-Samir
Exactly what kind of person is going to freely admit that they have mental illness and/or poor hygiene?Xath said:
I'd ask for pictures, clothing samples, and testimony from game store employees.
-Samir
Rystil Arden
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I think the main problem is that this is a poll that people choose to respond to rather than being randomly selected, plus it is being given on a RPG-game website. This is similar to the classic selection fallacy where the NRA puts a mail-in survey at the back of their magazine and then claims that the survey shows that 99% of people are against gun control or something.Xath said:
Beyond that, if you assume a simple random sample of ENWorlders (not a safe assumption since it is selected response of people who like polls or like helping college students do research or both), the two polls thing will work out fine.
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