From: jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com (jeff zeitlin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.advocacy
Subject: survey: gaming habits
Date: 19 Nov 92 05:51:06 GMT
Reply-To: "jeff zeitlin" <jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Executive Networks Information


  This survey is being posted in connection with an assignment in a
  statistics class I am taking.  I am not out to prove a point; I just 
  want your honest opinions and reasonably honest answers to these 
  questions.  Who knows what kind of interesting correlations will 
  turn up...

  Please return completed surveys via email to 
  jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com; there's no sense in wasting public 
  bandwidth for something that other people probably won't be 
  interested in.  If there _is_ sufficient interest expressed, I'll 
  post the resulting write up.

  Feel free to print out copies for your friends who don't have access 
  to the Internet; the more data, the better my paper will be.  I'd 
  prefer that their answers be emailed as well, but snail mail to Jeff 
  Zeitlin, 305 Sixth Ave #1D, Pelham NY 10803 USA will do fine.

  Because this is a class, there is, unfortunately, a deadline.  I'd 
  like as many responses as possible to arrive at my site before 15 
  December.  I'll continue taking them as long as they keep coming in, 
  but if they don't get here before that date, there's no guarantee 
  that they'll get included in the analysis.  As I receive them, you 
  _will_ get an acknowledgement of your participation, with my thanks.

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  Role-Playing Game Participants Survey of Participation Habits

  1:  Please list, in order from most favorite to least favorite, the 
  RPGs that you play, and the publisher of each.  Each separate 
  edition of a game should be counted as a separate game, as should 
  each separate genre of multi-genre games.

  2:  Please indicate whether each game is a "Character Design" game, 
  where you have total control (within resource limits) of the 
  eventual abilities of the character, or an "Event Driven" game, 
  where your control of the character's eventual abilities is limited.

  3:  Is the game "Creationistic", where the character's abilities do 
  not change once generated, or "Evolutionary", where the character's 
  abilities can change with time?

  4:  How much time per month do you spend playing the games you 
  listed above (as a character)?  

  5:  If you are a referee, how much time do you spend refereeing 
  rather than playing (as a character)?

  6:  How much time do you spend in preparation for playing?  for 
  refereeing (if applicable)?

  7:  Consider the highest-ranked game from your list in question #1 
  that is the same genre as the game you listed first.  Why do you 
  prefer you highest ranked game to this one?

  DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

  8:  Are you male or female?

  9:  What is your age?

  10:  Where do you live?  (region:  New England, Mid Atlantic, 
  Midwest, South, Northwest, Southwest, Pacific Coast [incl. AK and 
  HI], or name of Canadian Province or country outside of US/Canada)

  11:  What do you do for a living?  (Full time students: Indicate HS 
  or College student)

  12:  If you are a college graduate or current student:  What is/was 
  your major?  If you are a high school student, what are you thinking 
  of majoring in?

  13:  If you are a college graduate or current student:  What field 
  of study does your school have a reputation for being good at?  If 
  you are a high school student,what field of study does the college 
  you expect to attend have a reputation for being good at?

  14:  If you have a full-time job, is it a job where your personal 
  "style" shows in the results that people outside your organization 
  see, or is it a job where anyone who holds the same position will 
  get the same results?  For example, your personal "style" shows if 
  you design advertising or write for publication, but not if you 
  write computer programs or do accounting.

  15:  Besides playing RPGs, what hobbies do you have?  Note: For the 
  purposes of this survey, LARP is _not_ the same as playing RPGs.

  END OF SURVEY
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  J/
  jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com

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