Research Paper on DBD: Results - Summary

First and foremost congrats on graduating!

And that's an interesting summary as well. It's interesting in its own way when a lot of predictions turn out to not be correct, something to learn from it regardless afterall. Thanks for sharing 🙂

The little Demo head in the corners. Loved it. Congrats on graduating!

Interesting summary. So about 2/3 of females prefer killer and 2/3 of males prefer survivor. Also about 4/5 of the respondents were male versus 1/5 female. I wonder if the two are correlated in the sense that because there are far fewer female players the ones that exist tend to prefer the solo experience of killer over playing with friends as survivor? In other words are players in general more comfortable playing solo if they have fewer people they associate with outside the game and the male and female players tend to prefer to associate with similar genders, leading to the smaller gender group gravitating more toward the solo experience?

Oh yeah I can imagine and totally understand keeping it brief. Your summary did a good job of pointing out some surprising findings while keeping it "accessible", and that in itself gives people something to think about and discuss if they desire 👍️

Very nice, I'm not sure there were enough demo pics though

As a fellow researcher (albeit in a completely different field that has nothing to do with Psychology), have a vote up and let me wish you a successful career.

I will be looking for the complete paper and give it a read. Congratulations!

Can't wait to read this

As a survivor main, I would have predicted the exact opposite - low agreeableness would make you more likely to be a survivor.

This was interesting

Thanks you for posting the results

I think this is an important distinction. In my experience, which I know in terms of statistics is just conjecture, males have more friends that play games and would be more likely to play a game of this type. With that being said, if you have more friends that play this game then you are more likely to play together and if you do so you are forced to play survivor. So more groups are going to prefer survivor because that is what they are better at or have more practice doing, or simply don't play as much solo. Simply looking at only one factor in the regression isn't enough because it can form a bias to that one factor. I would bet that if a few dummy variables were used to bring more factors into the game such as 1= prefers to play solo or 0=prefers to play in group another being 1=has 1 or 2 friends with the game or 0=has 3+ friends with the game that we may see less bias on the gender variable.

Essentially the more variables you use the more accurate the model. If you use only one then it either has no correlation at all or it is super correlated most of the time. When I was earning my Econ Master's I did a study that was looking at gun violence. If I formed a regression that looked at total homicide (just simply someone dying) as the dependent, and used murder as the independent variable it would show that murder was a huge factor. But if you start throwing in other independent variables such as earned income, education, family make up etc. I know this looked at education, but the other variables seemed to all be in game choices which people may have been indifferent about and made decisions in answering based on anything. This game being different than an mmorpg where personality is more important due to picking a character and basically becoming that character and playing a particular role where essentially in this game every character is the same provided the same perk availability across the board and everyone needs to due the same few tasks.