Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 quiz_mistress Nov 17, 2010 0:18:39	Well, social science, anyway. Hi, I'm a graduate student in library and information studies, and I'm doing a paper on user acceptance in social informatics (basically the social side of computing).  I've become really interested in the response to the online character builder that was just launched, and I would like to use it as a case study in my paper.  But in order to do that, I need to find out who uses the character builder. To that end, I've set up a short (16 questions, less than ten minutes) survey.  You can take it here: www.surveygizmo.com/s3/412615/D-D-Player-Demograpic-Data I'm not associated with WotC, not making any money off of this, and I couldn't retain or identify your data in any way even if I wanted to.  So please consider helping a fellow geek out. The survey will remain open until December 5th. Mods, I know this is probably only tangentally related to this forum's mission.  I'm sorry about that.  Thanks, Emily
#2 caerin Nov 17, 2010 0:54:05	LIS FTW! ^_^
#3 dracowayfarer Nov 17, 2010 1:48:49	Done. For SCIENCE!
#4 BilopTheFleshwarper Nov 17, 2010 2:04:46	SCIENCE! no prob.
#5 saitir Nov 17, 2010 2:19:28	For science... you monster! Oh, and done ;)
#6 wet_jimmy Nov 17, 2010 2:20:39	Well, social science, anyway. Hi, I'm a graduate student in library and information studies, and I'm doing a paper on user acceptance in social informatics (basically the social side of computing).  I've become really interested in the response to the online character builder that was just launched, and I would like to use it as a case study in my paper.  But in order to do that, I need to find out who uses the character builder. To that end, I've set up a short (16 questions, less than ten minutes) survey.  You can take it here: www.surveygizmo.com/s3/412615/D-D-Player-Demograpic-Data I'm not associated with WotC, not making any money off of this, and I couldn't retain or identify your data in any way even if I wanted to.  So please consider helping a fellow geek out. The survey will remain open until December 5th. Mods, I know this is probably only tangentally related to this forum's mission.  I'm sorry about that.  Thanks, Emily Done! I feel all sciencey.
#7 jeff-heikkinen Nov 17, 2010 3:18:38	I filled it out, but I do hope you realize the people on this board are almost certainly an unrepresentative sample of D&D players; not to mention a self-selecting one, as far as actually doing the survey is concerned.
#8 Gazra Nov 17, 2010 3:20:55	Done. You certainly have this social thing down, because I never would have taken some stranger's quiz on a messageboard without it being for SCIENCE!
#9 duck_of_doom Nov 17, 2010 3:30:30	For Pony..... erm and Science
#10 Mock Nov 17, 2010 7:07:49	A fledgling librarian! Excellent. Happy to help.
#11 SoulCatcher78 Nov 17, 2010 7:08:43	Done and done.
#12 Jeff_Loretto Nov 17, 2010 7:20:49	For science!  Would love to read your paper when it is done!
#13 Phobos Nov 17, 2010 7:31:22	Done, I'd also love to read your paper.
#14 cathak Nov 17, 2010 9:09:32	Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your basements, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our character builder, but they'll never take... OUR SCIENCE!
#15 dracomax1981 Nov 17, 2010 9:49:32	For Science! wait, what are the potentials of this for mad science again?
#16 malphaeus Nov 17, 2010 10:22:08	Hooray for social science!
#17 Jharii Nov 17, 2010 11:36:02	She blinded me!  With science!! - Thomas Dolby was here.
#18 MWSAber Nov 17, 2010 11:44:11	Being married to an MLIS I HAD to fill out the survey
#19 mellored Nov 17, 2010 12:02:05	Make sure to post the results.
#20 poseidon88 Nov 17, 2010 12:17:23	Done.  Though I'm sure you're aware, as someone studying social sciences, that online surveys are wildly inaccurate.
#21 pzychotis Nov 17, 2010 12:25:40	Done and done.
#22 knightoftheaster Nov 17, 2010 12:39:27	For the sake of SCIENCE!
#23 ChaosMage Nov 17, 2010 14:45:32	For Science! wait, what are the potentials of this for mad science again? Mad social science, of course.
#24 DragonsWrath Nov 17, 2010 17:00:31	*obligatory cheer for Science!*
#25 quiz_mistress Nov 18, 2010 10:53:45	I filled it out, but I do hope you realize the people on this board are almost certainly an unrepresentative sample of D&D players; not to mention a self-selecting one, as far as actually doing the survey is concerned. That's one of the limitations of the study.  I had to weigh the problem of getting a lot of D&D fans to take it with the problem of self-selection bias.  We'll have to see how things shake out when all is said and done. As someone pointed out up-thread, online surveys are/have the potential to be wildly inaccurate.  However, a lot of studies have been done of online communities (or are beginning to be done--I've found at least two papers written about WoW, for example).  Since these communities tend to be pretty geographically diverse, methodologies like online surveys are one way of reaching people. Anyway I'm tired of reading theory-based papers which never talk to users to find out how they feel.
#26 Teki Nov 18, 2010 13:10:21	Done! Anyway Magic > Science.
#27 drnick Nov 18, 2010 14:31:55	Done. Good Luck!