I doubt they would allow them to do this on a legit edu.au domain if it wasn't legir, besides UQ Psychology Department would have trouble with a class action if I don't get a second survey withing a month, especially for wasting 15 mins of my life which I only agreed to give in exchange for a movie ticket.

I was under the impression it was considered unethical to bribe people to fill out your surveys? Oh well, it worked on me.

Considering the time normally wasted on filling in internet surverys, having to wait a month for a useable movie ticket seems like a godsend.

meh im not gonna do the survey. greater union and bcc cinemas suck

I agree with HERMITech that they should have categories based on what type of games you play online, me for instance, I mainly play racing sims and the occasional FPS, I'm still a mmorpg virgin and too scared to start cause I know I will get hooked...

Hrmm, I'm not so sure about some of the stats that might come out of this. All the questions about whether I'm happy or unhappy with my life at the end, never actually asked if it was gaming that affected those things. I mean, right now I'm not particularly happy with my life because I'm living with my parents out in the middle of nowhere and I'm always poor, but that survey looks like its going to assume that games are making me unhappy in my life =\Clearly he never did statistical data analysis at university. (oh how I loathe thee)

Try extracting statistics from a system for a living for other people to interpret (and usually incorrectly I might add)

Actualy, Term is probably right.
I'm betting that the 2nd survey will be more specific in it's questions depending on which survey group you fall into

Maybe its all a clever ploy, and the guy is really doing his psych thesis on what lengths people will go to to get free movie tickets :(

Hey, for once my uni fees are going somewhere useful, as opposed to covering the costs of buying strap-ons for the bi-curious UQ Union staff.

Hey, for once my uni fees are going somewhere useful, as opposed to covering the costs of buying strap-ons for the bi-curious UQ Union staff.

You are talking about two different costs of fees. The UQ Union didn't pay for that, they still have all of their money for dildos and queer love posters.

Free movie tickets yay!!

everyone used to play as the chick in q2ctf!

sorry, i ment everyone who was cool used to play as the chick in q2ctf.

Is it just me or did the questions seem to repeat a lot? What a crappy survey. It seems like it was trying to box gamers into certain containers...I felt on most of the questions I was outside of what the survey was asking and it didn't give much slack...that's just me :p

You are talking about two different costs of fees
I'm aware of that.

Lighten up buddy!

Hm.. they want my email address but I can't find a privacy policy anywhere.

I did the survey, but I haven't played an online game in...hmm...probably 18 months now! Used to be right into it though, then gave it away. Single player gaming is easier and more satifying for busy people I reckon.

I felt on most of the questions I was outside of what the survey was asking and it didn't give much slack

I completely agree, I definitely felt that the way a lot of the questions were worded that it was trying to steer me into some kind of two face online persona reject stereotype. Finding myself having to 'strongly disagree' to almost everything rather than respond in varying degrees.
IMO, a very poorly constructured survey if any kind of unbiased opinion is required from its results.

They reworded the same questions over and over, it was all to do with balancing gaming life with real life, although some of the questions were exact repeats once or twice, i think they did this to try and catch out those liars pretending that gaming doesnt intefere with there social life, when it does. Very repetitive survey, although maybe its like that for a reason, hes a psychologist, we are not.

I can't bring myself to click the Submit Survey button when I know those answers could be skewed to any agenda. <_<

repetition of questions is a good way of picking out those people who aren't actually reading the questions, or who are just picking random responses.

How do I answer this? I either end up having multiple personalities, or I like killing people!

I don't think the researcher is asking if you think that running around killing people is an indication of the kind of actions you normally do. I think he is instead asking about the things you do, not the roles/intentions of the form of play.

i.e. He doesn't care if you are role playing a computer character who masturbates cats while researching magic missiles. He is interested if you threaten to punch people in the f*** because they called your mother a cum-catcher, and more importantly if you only do it online or if you also do it offline.

s that the kind of thing they're asking? Do they want to know if I lag in real life? Is this a question about relating to other online players, or relating to other gaming characters?

I actually think he is doing research which is along the lines of the anonomous nature of the internet causes people to do act like f***heads, but his research is looking at online game play. I wouldn't be surprised if he also has a simular survey at UQ sports asking people simular questions about off-line games.

Seriously, there's no way that survey was written by someone who plays online games. I suspect a total BS result.

I don't think he realised how his questions would be read by the general public.


repetition of questions is a good way of picking out those people who aren't actually reading the questions, or who are just picking random responses.

That is one very valid reason. Another reason is simply by changing the point of view of a question you can get a different answer.

i.e. He doesn't care if you are role playing a computer character who masturbates cats while researching magic missiles.
Yeah, who the hell researches magic missiles?

I thought the test was trying to plot our results on some type of graph, quadrant stylez or measured in some other way. It seemed to me to be seeing where we lay on a addicted/unaddicted scale as well as a where we lay on a connectedness scale. Some questions also asked about self image :/


Then again they could just be testing for female/male ratio in an elaborate way :p



I sat a psych survy once for about an hour, they told as at the start what it was about and away it went. After they retreived the papers they told us what is was REALLY about. The questions themselves had little meaning, it was how they releated to each other that was the point of it :/

sorry, i ment everyone who was cool used to play as the chick in q2ctf.

crackwhore goodness

yar, and like orbs, i dont really have time to game online anymore

the occasional druken lan here and there, but mainly single player games these days