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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 2914084" data-attributes="member: 7737">Ah, then you may want to do some research into the theory of survey design. I'm sure any sufficiently large college/university library can help with this. (Google might help too.)However, now that we know your hypothesis, it is a lot more clear to me why you created the surveys the way you did: to try to find out if gamers have an internal stereotype of themselves that is somehow* picked up by non-gamers.* How this happens is also a potentially fascinating reserch topic.Ideally, you would want two samples of survey respondents: non-gamers and gamers. You would start with a sufficiently large random sample of "normal people" and then shunt the ones who self-identify as gamers** into the gamer-specific survey. Everyone else answers the non-gamer survey. Then compare the responses.** I would not ask the question, "are you a gamer?" because it is too open to interpretation. Rather, I would ask something like, "Have you ever / do you regularly play games like Dungeons & Dragons or [insert other examples here]?"Alternatively you can survey a bunch of likely-to-be-gamers (like you are doing here on EN World) and separately survey a bunch of likely-to-be-non-gamers (e.g. by posting flyers or whatever). Of course the tricky thing is you need the non-gamers to be sufficiently familiar with gamers to have a stereotyped idea in mind for them.</blockquote>