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On the frontier - An interesting psychological experiment about 'the self'

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FeralShadow
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#81 - 2012-05-16 02:53:31 UTC
Some nice and interesting questions, but as I'm not an RPer my character doesn't really have as strong of an identity as some of the questions were asking. I guess for most I just imagined what I would do if I were him.

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#82 - 2012-05-16 11:06:11 UTC
CCP Guard wrote:
Spoiler:

Science will determine that EVE players are cool bros.


Protip: Surveys are the lest scientific data gathering method, just one step up from making stuff up (you get other people to make stuff up for you instead).
Malphilos
State War Academy
Caldari State
#83 - 2012-05-16 12:03:59 UTC
Ptraci wrote:
CCP Guard wrote:
Spoiler:

Science will determine that EVE players are cool bros.


Protip: Surveys are the lest scientific data gathering method, just one step up from making stuff up (you get other people to make stuff up for you instead).


What if you're measuring what people make up?

Protip... pfft.
Aemonchichi
Limited Access
#84 - 2012-05-16 13:50:57 UTC
nonetheless, it would be interesting to get these students post the results of their work here
Corvus Amicus
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#85 - 2012-05-23 16:00:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Corvus Amicus
Hello everyone and thanks a bunch!

The thesis is in fact complete and a summary of the results (and later a link to the paper itself) will follow in the next few days.


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My only gripe is that the wording of certain questions would be similar but switched around so if one question was phrased positively, the similar one would be phrased negatively. Was a little confusing.

Is that on purpose?


Yes, some items are "reverse-keyed"
Zalasastra
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#86 - 2012-05-24 02:06:57 UTC
Ptraci wrote:

Protip: Surveys are the lest scientific data gathering method, just one step up from making stuff up (you get other people to make stuff up for you instead).


the only people who have any reason to lie on a survey are people who refuse to acknowledge the truth about themselves or who hate science (which makes us face the reality of ourselves and our universe)

There are those of us who try to answer truthfully because We know that in the end We are all to benefit from accurate data.