Hey, this is Eric. Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, all correlational data like this has two limitations, lack of ability to make causal inference and self selection bias. The last point can be especially true in niche communities, as you point out. Frankly, I'm sending this questionnaire everywhere I can think of in the hopes of attaining enough responses to get good statistical significance and HOPEFULLY a representative sample of the gaming population. The last one is more a hope, as I also have recruitment posts on more general gaming areas such as escapistmagazine, pennyarcade forums, ign, /r gaming and others. In the end, self selection bias will be a strong limitation of this study and hopefully through good tracking of data I can mention what that bias is and how it might affect the results (ie: if 95% of my respondents put Everquest as a favorite game and MMMORPGs as a favorite genre).
In any case, I would like to personally thank all of you for helping me out. Without people kind enough to take time out of their day (for science!), there wouldn't be a study at all.
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