Shadowrun
Shadowrun General => General Discussion => Topic started by: UnbreakableJustice on <11-18-14/0807:25>
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Hello!
My name is Mary Penny and I'm doing a research paper on the community of people who play D&D, Shadowrun, ect.; for my English paper final. I need people to fill out a short survey and shed some light onto the subject of why this style of gaming isn't as popular as their computer companions or video games. If you could fill this out, I'd be eternally grateful! If you want to share more on your opinion or experiences, feel free to post them here. The more data the merrier.
I will not be using anyone's real name, I'll only use your username if you say that it is okay to do so in your post. If you only answer the survey, it is entirely invisible as to who you are - but please take it seriously.
Thanks a ton for whatever you can give! Your views and experiences on the subject are extremely helpful.
http://goo.gl/forms/iPYUjuxxKH
You can fill this out without a Google form, so don't worry about having to create an account.
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The survay states
"Tabletop Games
Please fill this out if you don't play any of these games."
The people who read this forum are probably all actively playing, have played and plan on playing again or desperately wish they had someone to play tabletop games with. Thus, you're not going to get a lot of answers from this crowd. (I only found out after writing an eloquent exposé about the superiority of the species Homo Sapiens Nerdius, gorram it!)
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Except maybe D&D bashing since we all play SR
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shed some light onto the subject of why this style of gaming isn't as popular as their computer companions or video games.
Hello Mary. Are you trying to figure out why sales for pen-and-paper roleplaying games are not as significant? Or are you trying to find evidence to support a claim that the pen-and-paper community would rather play video games?
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The survay states
"Tabletop Games
Please fill this out if you don't play any of these games."
Thanks for catching that, I accidently linked it to the second half of the survey, it should be the correct one now!
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Hello Mary. Are you trying to figure out why sales for pen-and-paper roleplaying games are not as significant? Or are you trying to find evidence to support a claim that the pen-and-paper community would rather play video games?
I'm attempting to figure out why the community of pen-and-paper RPGs are not as significant to their video game counterparts.
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Ahh, okay - the context of the survey makes much more sense now. I was not aware you had two surveys going, one pro pen-and-paper and one anti pen-and-paper. Very logical. :)
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I am assuming this is high school-level english paper, so I'm taking it as such, but perhaps this is a good time for you to learn about confirmation bias. I would encourage you to research it, this paper can be a good learning experience for you beyond just the actual writing of it.
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Hey Mary!
Took your survey, tried to leave useful advice. Having just finished my master's thesis, I'm probably a little wordy in the qualitative entries. Hope it's useful in your project! :D
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Done! Hope we are helping!
Will you be able to share you findings with us? Or perhaps even share the paper when you done? I'm curious what you turn this all into :)
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And done.
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Interesting, and done. ;D
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Done. Hope it helps. :)
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There is only that few questions ? How many games we play and how much we spend on it annually ?
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There is only that few questions ? How many games we play and how much we spend on it annually ?
yup, i gather it is either a small paper, or this quiz is but a small segment of the data used for the paper or that table top gaming is but a small portion of the paper. That's why im curious as to the papers final form
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I am assuming this is high school-level english paper, so I'm taking it as such, but perhaps this is a good time for you to learn about confirmation bias. I would encourage you to research it, this paper can be a good learning experience for you beyond just the actual writing of it.
This is actually my college research paper, but as a freshman in my first semester, I'm not surprised that it still has that highschooler feel to it. I've never conducted a paper that I've had to personally gather information on before so I am new entirely to this.
However, yes, I do know what confirmation bias is as I have written research papers before and I'm doing my best to avoid this. Being a player and huge fan of Shadowrun, I do have expectations of what I think will come out of this questionnaire for both the side of people who play and those who do not. I will be doing my best to represent the information I've collected in my paper as is and not the expectations I hold.
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There is only that few questions ? How many games we play and how much we spend on it annually ?
yup, i gather it is either a small paper, or this quiz is but a small segment of the data used for the paper or that table top gaming is but a small portion of the paper. That's why im curious as to the papers final form
Originally I was trying make a big survey with many more questions, but collected data had been so few in numbers of people that I decided to shorten it in hopes of having more people answer. I decided to keep with the cost of it because I personally took longer to join a Shadowrun group because the rule book was $60 so I thought that cost might be a turn off. In chance there was another reason a lot didn't participate, I put in the reasoning for joining up. Having where you heard about it was important because my teacher wanted me to figure out if a reasoning that the group is small is due to information not being readily available.
Also, in comparison to the papers I've written, this is a small paper. It is suppose to only be a four page thing, double spaced so it is a rather small (another reason for the few number of questions). This is my first paper where I am required to collect the data personally, so it's a learning experience as much as it is data collecting.
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Now that Finals are (I think?) likely to be done, mind sharing the results?
Also, welcome to the crazy world of original research/data collection! It gets even crazier from here :)
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I filled out the survey. Sorry for the high word count. Good luck with finals. :D
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Done with mine. Will you please post the paper and/or results soon? Inquiring minds and all that...
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Done and done. Like the rest of the posters here, I would love to be able to read your finished paper or see some of the results of the survey. I'm always interested in what other gamers think about the common games we all play(or run).