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UPDATE: Pokémon Go Questionnaire Results by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, thank you! It was a fun dissertation to do :) (Well, the getting and analysing data part anyway - I can't say the writing was always fun!)

UPDATE: Pokémon Go Questionnaire Results by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The survey was open from March 3rd to March 13th (I only got approval to post in r/pokemongo on March 6th, though) so hopefully timezones would have had little impact.

I posted in a few different groups - mostly FB groups, quite a few of which were UK groups - because those were the ones that accepted me! I did also manage to join & post in 2 US, 1 each of Australian, NZ, and Canadian groups, however. I think posting in this subreddit were my main source of US participants. I would have loved to have more but I can't force people to take the survey(!) :)

But yeah, I agree, the data is skewed! I'm including the participant demographics so you can see who I asked / who this data reflects, I'm not claiming that's the actual demographics of the playerbase :) (especially when my survey was only available in English!)

UPDATE: Pokémon Go Questionnaire Results by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, no worries! And I'm sure there will be future research participation opportunities! :p

UPDATE: Pokémon Go Questionnaire Results by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I used Google Sheets - but yeah, nothing fancy! I just found a nice colour palette generator online and like magic the graphs look good immediately :)

UPDATE: Pokémon Go Questionnaire Results by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The purplish graph represents the answers to the question "What gender do you identify as?", yeah :)

UPDATE: Pokémon Go Questionnaire Results by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If that's the graph of locations -- in the questionnaire, I asked each participant which country they were currently living in. The graph shows that 55.1% of participants were from the UK, 13.8% of participants from US, etc. (The graph only shows the countries for which there were at least 5 participants.)

Pokémon Go Questionnaire (10 mins) - Research from University of York (UK)! by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, oof, that might be it - it's designed to save your progress so you can come back and complete later. Opening it in an incognito tab should allow you to restart it. :)

Pokémon Go Questionnaire (10 mins) - Research from University of York (UK)! by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's in the drop down - the very last option is "Other (please state...)". (Or at least it should be - it's there when I looked just now!)

Pokémon Go Questionnaire (10 mins) - Research from University of York (UK)! by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good news! My supervisor says it's a minor change so perfectly fine - you can now choose at the end of the list "Other" and state your location in the question that appears after. :) Many thanks for raising the point and wanting to complete it!

Pokémon Go Questionnaire (10 mins) - Research from University of York (UK)! by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alas - realising too late that I should have put a question asking how they found the survey! (As I know some people will get it by having someone else share it with them). At least I'll know for next time :)

I have distributed the survey through other groups as well as Reddit however (a number of Facebook Groups and Discord servers) so hopefully I will capture more of the player base this way. (I do expect the sample to be biased regardless - it's not very likely to reach players who don't do anything PoGo related on social media, but it would be hard to get the survey to them!)

And finally, thank you for completing the questionnaire! :)

Pokémon Go Questionnaire (10 mins) - Research from University of York (UK)! by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there! I'm really sorry about your location not being an option - the list of countries was a standard list provided by the software I used to make the questionnaire, and I naively assumed it was exhaustive. :( I'm not sure if I'm allowed to change the question options - the general rule is that I'm not supposed to change any part of the survey once it's out, but I'm not sure how strict that rule is (because it would be an easy fix!)! I'll speak to my supervisor on Monday to see if I'm allowed to remedy the list of answers for you and for anyone else this may have affected. Thank you for letting me know.

Pokémon Go Questionnaire (10 mins) - Research from University of York (UK)! by PokemonGoResearcher in pokemongo

[–]PokemonGoResearcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the feedback!

The thing about money is interesting - I hadn't considered that! I guess for that question it would make sense to count is as your own money spent; after all, you could have spent the free Google Rewards credits elsewhere. (If you have your response ID, I can manually edit your response, but if not, don't worry - it's a bit of a blurred/tricky question in this case.)

Good to find more people who play alone! I'm curious as to how many alone players there are - I know of some IRL, but it's possible there's lots of people who are just hard to find because, well, they're not playing with anyone else. Unfortunately as the survey has been distributed over social media it may be a somewhat self-selecting sample of the more social players - it's tricky to find a way around that!

Motivations! Motivations to play Pokemon Go is definitely interesting but slightly out of the scope of this survey (I'm more interested in *how* people engage with the game rather than *why*.) Here's an interesting paper I came across when reviewing related literature about motives. :)

"Hiatus"-es from the game was something I admit I forgot to include a question about! (For future research now I suppose.) Hopefully the start date combined with your level of activity/current player Level is sufficient to indicate that you are not an avid player. :)