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BlueMole
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Posted - 2008.02.24 23:44:00 -
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Edited by: BlueMole on 24/02/2008 23:44:30
Hi Guys and Girls,
In real Life i'm doing a BSc Psycholgy Degree and my dissertation is on attitudes and behaviours of groups in online worlds.
If you can spare 20 minutes to fill in this questionnaire for me, it'd be really helpful and it might be quite interesting. If you decide half way through you dont want your data include just leave the survey unfinished and i will discount your results
And if you want to find out the results, just give me an e-mail address at the end and i'll send you my findings.
PS anything you notice that could be improved just let me know and i'll do my best to correct if it can be.
Click here for the link
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bswTRiulpWq6aoTy_2fIPVXA_3d_3d
Thanks Everyone
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Helix Fluxx
Caldari
Contempo Enterprises
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Posted - 2008.02.25 00:24:00 -
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Hmm. Done. Certainly some interesting questions on that one, although I fail to see how some of them equate to what goes on in an online world?
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Micia
Minmatar
Thrace Inc
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2008.02.25 00:29:00 -
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I did the first page (with questions 1 - 4), and when hitting "Next" it takes me straight to 21 (the Thanks page, to enter e-mail addy)
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Magnus Nordir
Caldari
Asimov Industries
Zeroth Continuum
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Posted - 2008.02.25 00:35:00 -
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Did the survey, I must say you've chosen an interesting set of questions for a study about online groups. I await the results to see how you used your findings to connect them to the theme.
Everything is possible for him who believes.
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Rawr Cristina
Caldari
Cult of Rawr
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Posted - 2008.02.25 00:48:00 -
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done.
Is it just me, or are the first half of the questions basically asking if you're a Racist?
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BlueMole
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Posted - 2008.02.25 00:52:00 -
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Thanks to everyone who's already completed the questionnaire, got a good early response but still need more so keep them coming.
If you get skipped to the end straight after the first page it'll be because you dont fit within the required age bracket - unforunately to remove some possible confounding factors i have to keep participants in the middle age brackets, if you are under 16 or over 36 i can't use your results so it skips you striaght to the end. Thank you for attempting to fill it out anyway. I will edit the inital post to point out the required age.
Thanks again to everyone who's filled in the questionnaire.
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Orion Eridanus
Dark Nova Crisis
Chain of Chaos
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Posted - 2008.02.25 02:49:00 -
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 Originally by: Rawr Cristina
done.
Is it just me, or are the first half of the questions basically asking if you're a Racist?
It seems to be aiming more towards do you discriminate because people are different from you than it does being racist.
Originally by: Paulo Damarr
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Tarquin Tarquinius
Gallente
Escorts of Eve
HUNTER'S BROTHERHOOD
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Posted - 2008.02.25 03:10:00 -
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Done.....
...most of the ones at the end either ended up being at one end or the other.
I would of suggested asking what nationality everyone identifies themselves as.
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BlueMole
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Posted - 2008.02.25 04:07:00 -
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Edited by: BlueMole on 25/02/2008 04:08:07
Another big thanks to everyone who's filled out the questionnaire so far, i'm already approaching my target sample size but the more responses i get the better so keep them coming, I'm expecting to keep the survey open for another week so if you know anyone who may want to complete the survey please let them know about it.
Since there has been abit of speculation about the nature of the study i will update this thread when the dissertation is complete aswell as send it out those who requested it by providing an e-mail, incase there are some who did the questionnaire but didn't remember to put an e-mail address at the end.
Thanks for everyone's comments so far, any feedback is welcomed, it's good for any research to recognise it's potential flaws - but particularly for me because this is for my dissertation and any criticisms can get me extra marks.
A big thank you again to anyone who's participated
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Multras
Caldari
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.02.25 05:32:00 -
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Make sure to take into account some people make racist jokes because they are funny, not to be mean, or racist ;).
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Tarquin Tarquinius
Gallente
Escorts of Eve
HUNTER'S BROTHERHOOD
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Posted - 2008.02.25 06:04:00 -
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Originally by: Multras
Make sure to take into account some people make racist jokes because they are funny, not to be mean, or racist ;).
Thats a good point. A lot of people have friends of different races that they'll make racists jokes or comments to because they're close enough to laugh about it. Like yesterday when one of my frieds was joking about how the Irish like to drink.
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BlueMole
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Posted - 2008.02.25 06:40:00 -
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Originally by: Tarquin Tarquinius
Originally by: Multras
Make sure to take into account some people make racist jokes because they are funny, not to be mean, or racist ;).
Thats a good point. A lot of people have friends of different races that they'll make racists jokes or comments to because they're close enough to laugh about it. Like yesterday when one of my frieds was joking about how the Irish like to drink.
Without giving too much away about how the questions are structured , they are designed to take this into account.
Just another quick reminder to everyone who's participated or thinking of participating: all your results will be completely anonymous so please try to answer questions as honestly as possible.
Thanks Again
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Mellowman
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Posted - 2008.02.25 06:50:00 -
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Lol im sorry but those questions, particularly towards the end have no suitable answers, even with a sliding scale e.g.
The situation in our country is getting so serious, the strongest methods would be justified if they eliminated the troublemakers and got us back to our true path.
The only way our country can get through the crisis ahead is to get back to our traditional values, put some tough leaders in power, and silence the troublemakers spreading bad ideas.
That is just so weighted with religeuos and fundamentalist crap it's unbelievable....true path...unless your refering to some religious belief then that question has no meaning
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BlueMole
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Posted - 2008.02.25 08:11:00 -
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Originally by: Mellowman
Lol im sorry but those questions, particularly towards the end have no suitable answers, even with a sliding scale e.g.
The questions at the end of the survey which your referring too make up a scale thats sometimes used in this type of research, it does suffer from being ethnocentric because like 90% of Psychological research it was developed in the United States of America and thats definitely one of the limitations of the study. I would like to mention that it has been used in cross-cultural studies previously and it's still come out valid in most of those.
I would of course have dearly loved to be able to make different versions of this survey for each possible Nationality and put it into as many different lanuages as possible instead of just in english but unforunately i didn't have anywhere near as much time as that would require.
If i go on to do a Phd on this subject then it's a limitation i will definitely try to correct.
Thanks again to everyone who's filled out the questionnaire and to everyone who's given feedback, again any comments you have on the survey are welcome, we get marks for poking holes in our own research and you might point out something i haven't thought of before.
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CCP Whisper
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Posted - 2008.02.25 09:09:00 -
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I'm very interested to see the results of this project. Couple of questions: Why are you not asking what the race of the character is, and whether or not the ethnic jibes were being made as part of RP? Are you assuming that anything done in character is RP? Would also have been interesting to ask whether peoples' avatars reflect their own ethnicity and to get people to evaluate how much of their RL personality they transfer to their character. Is the survey the only research tool you are using, or are you going to try and perform some more in-depth interviews?
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Xtreem
Gallente
Knockaround Guys Inc.
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Posted - 2008.02.25 09:24:00 -
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done for u :)
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Kirjava
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2008.02.25 09:31:00 -
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Hmm, well I have on occasion not invited people because of ethicisty.
However that was because they were Muslim and to teh best of my knowlege they aren't allowed to get drunk 
So in my reslul't thats the reason I'm answering like that.
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BlueMole
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Posted - 2008.02.25 10:39:00 -
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Hi hopefully i'll be able to answer all of your questions
Originally by: CCP Whisper
I'm very interested to see the results of this project. Couple of questions: Why are you not asking what the race of the character is,
I didn't ask the race of the character because i'm asking people from a number of different MMO's although in hindsight it would've been nice to have it as an optional question
Originally by: CCP Whisper
and whether or not the ethnic jibes were being made as part of RP? Are you assuming that anything done in character is RP?
I'd like to be able to answer this question now but i'd prefer to wait till all the results have been collected in case it influences people who may be yet to particpate - if you'd like to know sooner rather than later i dont mind you e-mailing me (not sure if you can access my e-mail address as your on the dev team? I give you permission if you have to have that) and i can send you my answer.
Originally by: CCP Whisper
Would also have been interesting to ask whether peoples' avatars reflect their own ethnicity and to get people to evaluate how much of their RL personality they transfer to their character.
Definitely something i regret not putting into the survey and something i'll put into any future research
Originally by: CCP Whisper
Is the survey the only research tool you are using, or are you going to try and perform some more in-depth interviews?
At the moment it's just the survey but it seems like this may well be an interesting avenue of research, if the results are significant then this could led to further research, hopefully by myself if i go on to further study.
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Roxanna Kell
FinFleet
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2008.02.25 10:48:00 -
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Done, I study the same course, I may steal your work :P, j/k.
I ve done an essay on gaming all ready, teacher liked it as it people who do not play games, have no idea about our world.
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Petsey Petrilinquo
Caldari
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2008.02.25 10:52:00 -
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Very interesting survey m8.
I had a good laugh at some of the questions :)
Keep upp the good work m8
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Meiyang Lee
Gallente
Azteca Transportation Unlimited
Gunboat Diplomacy
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Posted - 2008.02.25 11:22:00 -
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interesting survey and a joy to fill out, looking forward to reading your findings BlueMole. 
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Polonium 210
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Posted - 2008.02.25 13:53:00 -
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Some questions are very incorrect.
Several times I strongly agreed with one part of the question and strongly disagreed with the other part of the same question.
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3rdD Dave
Gallente
Deadly Addiction
Un-Natural Selection
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Posted - 2008.02.25 14:52:00 -
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HI, completed the questionnaire.Im also a Psychology student. Good luck with your course, and make sure you post out the emails for those who were interested.
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ry ry
StateCorp
Insurgency
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Posted - 2008.02.25 16:54:00 -
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Edited by: ry ry on 25/02/2008 16:57:28
Originally by: BlueMole
Edited by: BlueMole on 25/02/2008 00:54:08
Edited by: BlueMole on 24/02/2008 23:44:30
Hi Guys and Girls,
In real Life i'm doing a BSc Psycholgy Degree and my dissertation is on attitudes and behaviours of groups in online worlds.
If you can spare 20 minutes to fill in this questionnaire for me, it'd be really helpful and it might be quite interesting. If you decide half way through you dont want your data include just leave the survey unfinished and i will discount your results
And if you want to find out the results, just give me an e-mail address at the end and i'll send you my findings.
PS anything you notice that could be improved just let me know and i'll do my best to correct if it can be.
Click here for the link
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bswTRiulpWq6aoTy_2fIPVXA_3d_3d
Thanks Everyone
*Edit* Unforunately there is an age bracket that you have to be in to complete this study, if you are under 16 or over 36 then unforunately i can't use your results.
somebody wot i knew on the internet wrote this aaages ago, but i think it's relevant to what you're doing. actually, **** it, everybody should read it. it's really good.
edit. haha, the URL gets filtered. it's http://www.alwaysblack.com/blackbox/bownigger.html
and any internet randoms enraged by somebody writing ******, for the love of god actually read it before you start gobbing off, cheers.
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BlueMole
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Posted - 2008.02.25 20:16:00 -
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Hi Everyone
I have to give another big thank you to everyone who's filled out the questionnaire so far, i've already passed my inital target sample size by half again, which is really unexpected since i posted the survey on these forums less than 24 hours ago. But i'll still be leaving the survey open for a week and the more people who fill it out the better!
Thanks to everyone who's shown an interest in my research and those who looking forward to the results, i still plan to post a slightly shorter version of the debrief and results on this thread when i've finished the dissertation (aswell as e-mails for those who requested it, which maybe abit more comprehensive).
It might be interesting to have a bit of a dicussion of the results on here, esspecially with the psychologists out there.
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somebody wot i knew on the internet wrote this aaages ago, but i think it's relevant to what you're doing. actually, **** it, everybody should read it. it's really good.
People should read this, it's a good article. I remember reading it a few years ago when it appeared in the UK PCGamer Magazine and is actually one of the influences that got me interested in this area of research.
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Kalahari Wayrest
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Posted - 2008.02.25 21:24:00 -
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Quote:
somebody wot i knew on the internet wrote this aaages ago, but i think it's relevant to what you're doing. actually, **** it, everybody should read it. it's really good.
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3rdD Dave
Gallente
Deadly Addiction
Un-Natural Selection
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Posted - 2008.02.25 21:33:00 -
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BlueMole check your eve mail please.
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Ankhesentapemkah
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.02.25 22:58:00 -
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I really think these are strange questions and quite short minded too.
Most of the questions overlap, and a lot of questions are contradictonary, where you can agree with one part and completely disagree with another.
Why not just ask people how much they value law and order, authority, tradition, religion, traditional marriage, individuality and freedom of thought and action, instead of asking dozens of questions that all roll back to these points.
Also I do not think that the questions are formulated from a neutral point of view, which is essential for a survey like this. True path, who decides that?
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Kalahari Wayrest
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Posted - 2008.02.25 23:07:00 -
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Also I do not think that the questions are formulated from a neutral point of view
To be fair, I'm not sure there's any such thing 
But yes, some clearer or less loaded words (example: 'deviant' - I assumed you meant 'deviance from the norm' and answered according to that definition, but it's automatically got the negative connotations of the word) would of helped I think.
Will be interested in the results though
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Havok Dryke
Golden Gavel Enterprises
The Cooperative
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Posted - 2008.02.26 01:59:00 -
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Done
Interesting survey, the questions at the end were scarily fundamentalist
If that's how fundamentalists think... jeez, that's almost as bad as the Extremist (Note that I separated them) Islamics. Im looking forward to seeing the results from this... It would be interesting if there was a correlation between ethnicity and right-wing type fundamentalism...
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