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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rpgresearch" data-source="post: 6182610" data-attributes="member: 6691105">To reiterate, the long term goal of the over all RPG Research project is to establish the causal effects of  role-playing games upon participants (with long-term, controlled  studies), but there are many steps prior to that stage, as listed on the front  page of the aforementioned website, see numbers 1 through 23 there.IF  I were able to acquire a large enough sample of private gamers for a  study, it would most likely be a comparative and/or correlational study comparing between  public and private gamers in multiple stages as mentioned earlier. I  wouldn't really be implementing a controlled study manipulating the  dependent variable, and would not be establishing causality, but it could still be listed in the terms you  requested with the following approach if desired.So one example  would be using a version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) or  Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) and comparing the results between  public versus private gamers for statistically significant differences.Another step would be checking IQ between public versus private, etc.So, if you wanted to take the approach you requested to measuring, might proceed as follows:Is  their a statistically significant difference in self-reported levels of  depression between public gamers versus private gamers?So, independent variable would be the public gamers versus the private gamers.The dependent variable would be the level of depression as measured by self-reported scores from BDI or PHQ.This process would then be repeated for IQ, personality, problem-solving, etc. Looking for any potential differences.This  would also be compared to the earlier 70+ studies performed on gamers  against the general population back in the 80's and 90's to look for any  potential cohort or other differences. This would not be a longitudinal  stage of the studies, and causality would not be established for this  particular section.Did that sufficiently help clarify?</blockquote>

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