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Hello,

I am looking for participants for my third year Psychology dissertation. I am investigating the extent to which sexism is, or is not, present in the tabletop game hobby. I would be immensely thankful to anyone that can take this small amount of time to help me. Participation involves completing an online questionnaire that should take around 10 minutes to complete and will be completely anonymous. Further information can be found at the start and end of the survey, also please note this is for over 18's only please.

https://ueapsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4N2DBdPVN210eIR

Thank you for your time,

Kieran

Done. This was a weird one, I must admit I felt the 7 variations of "disagree, neutral, agree" were a bit too much.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Done. This was a weird one, I must admit I felt the 7 variations of "disagree, neutral, agree" were a bit too much.

Thanks for taking the time to complete it, I really appreciate it. I completely understand what you mean, I have used a study that was given to online video gamers and simply modified it for tabletop gamers. A future study may change the format of some questions but for now i've just changed the variable from online video gamer to tabletop gamer and kept everything the same. I appreciate your feedback though and may use your comment within the write up if that is ok?

Mean Hands wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Done. This was a weird one, I must admit I felt the 7 variations of "disagree, neutral, agree" were a bit too much.

Thanks for taking the time to complete it, I really appreciate it. I completely understand what you mean, I have used a study that was given to online video gamers and simply modified it for tabletop gamers. A future study may change the format of some questions but for now i've just changed the variable from online video gamer to tabletop gamer and kept everything the same. I appreciate your feedback though and may use your comment within the write up if that is ok?

sure thing

Did the questionaire. Questions were typically rather vague, but I'm always down for questionaires.

+1 done.

I get the feeling the "dominance" section was copied from somewhere since it went 'I agree that X' with later ' I disagree that X'.

Still, interesting survey.

There was one or two answers that I was a bit unhappy to give, because I couldn't prefix it with "In my experience" as opposed to " I believe that". I may not believe something to be the case (e.g. women work better with men in charge), but I cannot recall a useful example :|

I wasn't sure what the section on when participants were playing tabletop games was getting at. Also, it was hard for me to answer, to be honest. High school should have been defined with, say, an age range, as it will mean different things to different people (especially because in the UK we don't usually use the term high school). I took it to mean secondary school, which runs from 11 to 16. I did't play wargames all through that time, and when I did it wasn't at a regular time each week. It might have been more useful to ask about times people were painting/modeling, as well as playing. Finally, I don't think you'll find anyone playing tabletop games when they first wake up in the morning.

(Also, check your capitalization of 'I'; it makes you look sloppy.)

I think you really have to ask what the point of each question is. This survey does not fit tabletop games at all. I'd start from scratch with categorization questions at least, as I think you're going to have irrelevant data based on that survey as best as I can tell. At the same time, that may be fine for your class level.

Video games are a very different beast, and there may indeed be a difference between someone who plays in the evening vs someone who plays first thing in the morning all the time. However, play time and obsession are probably what this survey was going after given the questions on when you play. Weekend questions come down to "are you socializing or not" for video games, whereas with this game you are inherently socializing.

I started, but quit half way through as scrolling down on a touch screen kept changing my responses.

Done but like a lot of psychological surveys, i didn't like it: lots of vague questions, lots that didn't make a lot of sense/couldn't be answered, lots that could be worded better, lots of repeated questions just worded differently and many weighted questions.

The answers I gave didn't really give any real impression of how much of a tabletop gamer I am or what my opinions are on the sexism part of the survey, I answered many questions with 'neutral' simply because the questions were either too vague or heavily weighted.

Thanks to everyone that has taken the time to complete it so far. I also appreciate the constructive feedback

Lordy, lordy....

I wonder how many are actually prepared to sign up to "Yes, I'm a misogynist..."

That was kinda weird. I had hoped that education sourced questionnaires would be, frankly, better. I genuinely struggle to see how you would accurately link my answers to your hypothesis. That said, good luck!

I have up after the constant redundant questions. If you want meaningful input, take the time to tailor your questions instead of the poor cut and paste job you did.

I completed it, but I have to agree with others that the questions weren't really tailored for tabletop gaming, and that there were a lot of redundant questions. I get that question redundancy is good to a certain level as it lessens the impact of a misunderstood question, but this was off the charts.

Anyway, good luck!

Completed, but have to agree with the redundant questions, especially in one of the sections where I answered the same questions, asked differently about 4 times. Also, it didn't start off so well with the first section, which just seemed...odd. Giving a numerical value to when you usually play a game is a weird concept.

Hope it helps, but as with all of these types of questionnaires the quality of answers will only be as good as the quality of the questions and many of these felt really, really vague.

I didn't game in high school at all.

I knew some kids who played D&D in the library at lunchtime, but I wasn't one of them. I tended to hang out in the library - it was airconditioned - or the science labs.

I didn't START gaming until after I'd finished high school.

School gaming clubs didn't exist here when I was at school - you were more likely to find a university campus gaming club than high school.

First wake up in the morning?

Some terrible questions listed

As someone who spends a single Saturday a month - the entire questionnaire had me list 1 (Never) for the majority of the questions


edit: have you ever actually played a popular war game? Or even Magic the Gathering? These questions make it seem like you've never even heard of "Warhammer"

done

Thanks again for everyone that has taken the time to complete the study. I apologise for those that have found it frustrating and I will be happy to provide further information to specific questions as either a direct message on here or to my email at k.meenaghan@uea.ac.uk.

My favourite miniature game at the moment is Malifaux

Some sneaky question in there, but I'm curious to see the end results.You might want to thinka bout researching both sides of the dynamic next time. You ask about how a person feels about the other gender in the area of tabletop games but don't have them define how they feel about their own. I think that would an interesting data point.

 ChargerIIC wrote:
Some sneaky question in there, but I'm curious to see the end results.You might want to thinka bout researching both sides of the dynamic next time. You ask about how a person feels about the other gender in the area of tabletop games but don't have them define how they feel about their own. I think that would an interesting data point.

A very interesting idea and one that I might include in my discussion of future avenues of research. If you would like a copy of the paper once it is completed and marked i'd be happy to send it. If so just drop me an email to the address I listed above.

Thanks for your help

Mean Hands wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Done. This was a weird one, I must admit I felt the 7 variations of "disagree, neutral, agree" were a bit too much.

Thanks for taking the time to complete it, I really appreciate it. I completely understand what you mean, I have used a study that was given to online video gamers and simply modified it for tabletop gamers. A future study may change the format of some questions but for now i've just changed the variable from online video gamer to tabletop gamer and kept everything the same. I appreciate your feedback though and may use your comment within the write up if that is ok?

I see where people were talking about the redundacy, but it makes ton of sense to model it off of a different and existing survey. Now, you can compre the Tabletop World vs. the results of the Video Game survey.

I hope you share the results with us.

Completed out of curiosity but being honest I have no clue what about 2/3 of the survey had to do with sexism in tabletop gaming.

Is this a final year dissertation with a view to getting a degree/masters or something? If so, I would strongly recommend redoing the survey, focusing/balancing/making relevant.
Whatever data you glean from it will be imho tenuous at best in terms of proving/disproving your theory because the survey is so.....well poor tbh.
Any academic marking it is going to want to see your full data presented/methodolgy/validations and relevancy. This survey dosnet help you with that imo.

Now, you can compre the Tabletop World vs. the results of the Video Game survey.

Thats not the basis for his thesis.

I took it. Similar questions to what I have been asked on other surveys.

I can't get over the questions about asking for help. Not sure what they correlate to. I believe in asking for help when you need it, and proving it when you don't. Feels like the honest answers I give would be contradictory.

Thank you everyone that has completed it, I now have more than the amount advised by my research supervisor, but will keep it open as the more data I can collect the better. Also if anyone has any specific questions please feel free to email me at k.meenaghan@uea.ac.uk

 Easy E wrote:

Mean Hands wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Done. This was a weird one, I must admit I felt the 7 variations of "disagree, neutral, agree" were a bit too much.

Thanks for taking the time to complete it, I really appreciate it. I completely understand what you mean, I have used a study that was given to online video gamers and simply modified it for tabletop gamers. A future study may change the format of some questions but for now i've just changed the variable from online video gamer to tabletop gamer and kept everything the same. I appreciate your feedback though and may use your comment within the write up if that is ok?

I see where people were talking about the redundacy, but it makes ton of sense to model it off of a different and existing survey. Now, you can compre the Tabletop World vs. the results of the Video Game survey.

I hope you share the results with us.

This will indeed be a valid comparison that I will be including within the dissertation . I am happy to share the finished and marked piece of work to people that want one, please drop me an email to the address listed above.

Actually rather than emailing the whole thing why not put up a results summary on Dakka?

Done. But I'll echo the others. There are far too many repetitive or redundant questions.

Has your supervisor seen this? I did a dissertarion not that long ago, I know that mine wouldn't have let me use this questionnaire.