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[docdoc]

Hi my name is Chris Groom and I am a student at Lancaster University on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course (email c.groom@lancs.ac.uk). I am doing a study into the effects of online game playing on lifestyle factors and general health in men aged 18-40, which involves filling in some questionnaires. All participation is voluntary and participants can withdraw from the study at any time. If you are a man in that age group who plays MMORPG’s regularly, and this sounds interesting please go to the following website for more details.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=99232690777

Many thanks, much appreciated

 

[Piratecat]

This may not be the best site for this, Chris - we're dedicated to pen & paper D&D - but hopefully there is lots of crossover. I'll take it myself.

EDIT - note that the survey code is flawed. Questions 19-21 are contingent, and shouldn't be answered if you said "no" to Q 18, but the page requires them to be answered in order to proceed. As a result, I quit the survey at this point.

 

[Aeson]

Thanks for the tip Piratecat.

I play WOW. I'm not sure if I want to do the survey. I'm a little concerned that since it is health care related, I wonder if they will use it in some way to deny insurance.

 

[docdoc]

absolutely not- its a genuine study in repsonse to anecdotal reports of health problems associated with excessive gaming

 

[docdoc]

thanks

This may not be the best site for this, Chris - we're dedicated to pen & paper D&D - but hopefully there is lots of crossover. I'll take it myself.

EDIT - note that the survey code is flawed. Questions 19-21 are contingent, and shouldn't be answered if you said "no" to Q 18, but the page requires them to be answered in order to proceed. As a result, I quit the survey at this point.

hi thanks for that - have fixed the flaw