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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9003757" data-attributes="member: 82106">It is better to speak of how people represent their play, and what they actually do. Maybe you're trying to get at this, but in terms of 'probability' and such, I think the problem there is we don't have that sort of quantification of activities like TTRPG play, and there are considerable issues involved in even attempting to generate such data (IE much of the behavior is subjective, see the MANY recent retractions of papers on animal behavior stemming from such issues).I think we are using the word 'consequence' in very different ways here. Play may well be a thing of great consequence in terms of human society, but its weight in the general course of things in our individual lives, the specific activity of playing a given game, is not something we generally weigh that heavily. Going to work everyday and interacting with my colleagues is heavy stuff, I have to ALWAYS get that right, and if I promise to produce some work, I know there will be consequences if I don't. OTOH I can quite easily take it or leave it when it comes to some rules question in a game I play for entertainment on Sunday Afternoons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 9003757, member: 82106"] It is better to speak of how people represent their play, and what they actually do. Maybe you're trying to get at this, but in terms of 'probability' and such, I think the problem there is we don't have that sort of quantification of activities like TTRPG play, and there are considerable issues involved in even attempting to generate such data (IE much of the behavior is subjective, see the MANY recent retractions of papers on animal behavior stemming from such issues). I think we are using the word 'consequence' in very different ways here. Play may well be a thing of great consequence in terms of human society, but its weight in the general course of things in our individual lives, the specific activity of playing a given game, is not something we generally weigh that heavily. Going to work everyday and interacting with my colleagues is heavy stuff, I have to ALWAYS get that right, and if I promise to produce some work, I know there will be consequences if I don't. OTOH I can quite easily take it or leave it when it comes to some rules question in a game I play for entertainment on Sunday Afternoons. [/QUOTE]

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