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Quantification of EQ Players

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the grats dept.

Nick Yee writes: "As part of a psychology thesis project, I collected data from about 4000 individual EverQuest players who together filled out about 25,000 surveys that focused on many facets of personal and social dynamics in real-time 3D immersive virtual worlds, such as: gender differences, gender-bending, addiction, friendships, romantic relationships, people who play with romantic partners and so on. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. "

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  1. oh geez.... by vex24 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and I thought playing EQ was a waste of time! ;)

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    People shape laws. Not the other way around.

  2. Looking at the numbers by BelDion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Though I`m not a whiz at math or statistics, my rudamentry understanding of both leads me to two conclusions:

    1) There's only a 16% chance that HotBabe13 is female.

    2) There's only a 13.5% chance that if she is a she, she is single and not dating..

    So, for anybody I meet, I have about a 2% chance that they a single female. Leaving out other variables, I like those odds! :)

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    I am BelDion's .Sig; Who the hell is Jack?
  3. Re:I didn't find any of this especially... by dswensen · · Score: 5, Funny
    Of the three women in my guild, two have husbands - you know, real ones they sleep with - who play the game.

    Married people, sleeping together? Okay, now who's living in a fantasy world?