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Don't get the bombs, if people are interested in the results just let me know your e-mail.

Hello gamers and America's Army enthusiasts, We are currently performing a study on different aspects of America's Army (2.8.5 and 3.0), and this study requires your participation. The study is a cooperation between two universities in Belgium: the University of Antwerp and the University of Leuven. A lot of researchers have investigated the computergame America's Army, but none have taken into account the opinions and attitudes of actual players. We believe that this is absolutely necessary if we want to get a good idea of the impact of America's Army. It would be very important for us, and for the gaming community, if you could complete the online survey we have made (see link below). Your goodwill and cooperation are highly appreciated already! link -> http://soc.kuleuven.be/limesurveytest/index.php?sid=73729〈=en If you have any further questions regarding our study, you can always reply in this thread. The survey is 100% anonymous. The answers you provide will not be used beyond this study. Thank you very much in advance.

See page 2 of this topic, where I explain why we only ask these questions about middle eastern countries ;)

If you send me your e-mailaddress (pm) i add you to a list which i will send the results.

Indeed that's why your last sentence is one of our research goals ;)

Because it is/was unseen how succesful a propagandic tool as America's Army could be. A game produced by the U.S. Army that had success over the whole world, without the intention. Our goal is to see which opinions and attitudes are held by players of the game. In relation to other variables, as you can conclude from the survey. Even now there is still commotion among (ex-) players to keep playing the old version 2.8.5. It raises questions, how a game like America's Army could still evoke such an engagement.

Nobody I am a doing my last year of higher education (University in this case), and in our last year you have to perform your own research on a subject you choose voluntarily. You always get one promotor that guides you with it, this is prof. Ribbens (University of Leuven). We did the cooperation with University of Antwerp because we even wanted to make the survey more neutral. Check previous comments why it could be you think there is some bias in it. Thanks for the support and feedback already ;)

Surely heard of them, but they are not that active since 1995 if I am not mistaken (except some splinter groups). If you are talking about the Irish Republican Army that is.

Indeed and it's understandable that you think we are targeting muslims. Let's explain this. As a researcher you always try to use scales (with questions) that have proven their validity. The scale (with questions about muslims/middle east) is taken out of a previous research that is very highly regarded. Then you still have to know that we made the questions less explicit because we found the original scale too offensive. You can imagine what questions were in the original. That's why we have chosen for the 0-100 percentage. You can always give 0 percent if you think it is wrong. A second remark, you always have to choose when you create an online survey. If we again had to ask every question for a different religion. Than we had some 2 pages extra and our questionnaire was already quite long in comparison with other examples. As a researcher you would like to ask them a whole lot more, but it just is not possible. Space does not let you. A third remark, this is the first research that takes the player's attitudes and opinions into account. We knew even before we started that it would not be perfect (I never saw a perfect questionnaire I think), because we do not have any examples in this area. Mostly there is qualitative research through text analysis and such. But that is not what we wanted to do. By the way: Bafff which country you from?

This is already noted by other participants. We will take this in consideration when we will analyze data. The problem is you could also use the word 'enemy' but then you have the same issues. There is always a need for more explanation, but as you can imagine with online questionnaires many persons quit filling it in because it is too long. So giving extra information is very hard. We have to make some hard choices concerning certain wordings in the survey. This question is based on the construct 'identification', with a bunch of literature that precedes it. In which way is it biased? Because we did our very best to keep it neutral in any way. That's why have the cooperation with the University of Antwerp.I do understand that political questions immediately affect the 'biased-or-not' question. But it is very important for our research. So we had to ask that.

After deliberation with Zipper this looked like the right section (OffTopic) to post this survey. I will check this topic each day, to answer any questions concerning the survey.

Haha that fake nade is a classic one.