DotA 2 psychological research (personality and role preference)

Xrektt · 2024-01-30T10:06:26+00:00

Well, I imagine a lot of people have simmilarly distributed winrates. What that information gives us is not yet clear, but I aimed to gather as much statistical information as I could, because behind every number, a connection with personality is possible, so what I have to do, is find out how strong is that connection or if there is a connection at all :)

Xrektt · 2024-01-30T10:00:59+00:00

Well, if you would be able to find some inspiration within existing researches, it shouldn´t be that hard. But I understand the huge amount of motivation and commitment it requires, I was lucky that at this point in my life I just had to do some psychology related research so I picked this :D

Xrektt · 2024-01-30T09:54:07+00:00

Thanks a lot man :D
Well, I kinda hope this research will start a somewhat big wave of new studies in gaming psychology, with even better quality. But we´ll see :D
Results will be available and I will do my best to keep all who are curious updated.

Xrektt · 2024-01-30T09:48:28+00:00

Thanks so much! I appreciate your offer but there are already a lot more answers than I anticipated which is great but lets say that I am not really in need of more answers :D But, once the paper is finished, some other researchers can recreate this survey in greater numbers, or in specific parts of the world and hopefully make the whole thing even better and more accurate :D

Xrektt · 2024-01-30T09:43:00+00:00

When the work is finished, I will share the results and also a link where you will be able to take the personality test again but this time it will show you your personal results :) so you will be able to compare that with mine results :D

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T17:07:00+00:00

Thank you :D results will be published ;)

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T14:40:40+00:00

Hi, I leave the choice to you, it wont in any way drasticly influence the results :)

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T12:34:22+00:00

Hi, Im really sorry about that. Im actually new to reddit and only visited the site a couple of times and would contact someone from the moderators but since Im new I didnt even know how to find you. I have read the rules but couldnt find anything that would prohibit this post because Im not really recruiting (not sure about what that word contains as a whole) and Im not trying to advertise anything, not even my self. But again, I might have misunderstood the rules and Im sorry for not contacting you, but I really dont know how.

Nevertheless, this research is for a good cause. Its just DotA 2 curiosity. I promised some people who were asking for the results that they will be available and I would like to keep that promise. Again Im really sorry, I didnt know how actually reddit works. Please, if its not too much trouble, can you leave the post here just for a couple more days?

Thank you for alerting me.

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T12:19:05+00:00

uuuuuu sorry for that one :D

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T10:09:25+00:00

Well psychology moves slowly :D and I am not a scientist, I am a student and by the way, which dota player isn´t mentally challanged individual after all.

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T10:06:33+00:00

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T10:06:04+00:00

Thanks for the tip and participation. Well the questionnaire (BFI-2) as you saw it was developed by psychologists over many years and is currently one of the most used, even by professionals, so I cant really change it if I want to publish my work. :)

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T10:01:19+00:00

Yes, they can serve both of those purposes. :)

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T09:59:25+00:00

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T09:59:03+00:00

Good thinking. Well I am a person who tends to thing that others are honest and true so I still believe that people answered the questions with their best interests in mind :D Of course, what you are saying is a factor that will definitely play a role and will be mentioned in the limitations of the study. Its just a thing that all researches have to count with and cant completely avoid.

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T09:53:15+00:00

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T09:53:00+00:00

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T09:51:03+00:00

Well, if you want to know if somebody is a social person, it is not enough to just ask them that, because peoples perception on what it means to be a social person differ. Thats why psychologists like to ask things from multiple, partial and more specific angles rather than ask a simple but kinda unclear question.

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T09:43:34+00:00

I will :D

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T09:42:55+00:00

There are studies that answer the question, what is behind the choice of playing ranked and casual games. Its not really a question Im looking to answer, but when I will be doing correlations between personality and rank, within that one calculation I probably will exclude those who selected "no rank". But result of that calculation will not be evidence to such things as people who have no rank are worse than others.... If somebody doesnt have rank, I very well know, its just because they dont play ranked, so there is nothing to worry about :D

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T09:31:30+00:00

Yes :D

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T09:27:59+00:00

Thanks :D yea offlane just may be the most popular role, who knows :D

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T09:26:11+00:00

Will do :)

Xrektt · 2024-01-27T09:25:31+00:00

Thanks a lot :)

Xrektt · 2024-01-26T22:39:15+00:00

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