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<p>Meanwhile, ScreenAustralia's Audience Participation Survey didn't even give the options of PCs (or macs) or non-mobile/phone handheld gaming devices... Which data sources were you looking at, Wesley? Sometimes surveys that look totally fair, scientific and impartial aren't actually designed very well.</p>
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">Hi Wesley<BR><BR>The survey was anonymous, so I didn't collect that data. To be honest,<BR>I don't think age and gender is really important (and certainly wasn't<BR>relevant to the goal I had for the survey which was to assist with<BR>some decisions about a project I have in the works).<BR><BR>L8r, Paul<BR><BR>On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Wesley Lamont <<a ymailto="mailto:pigmi@raez.net" href="javascript:return">pigmi@raez.net</a>> wrote:<BR>> Thanks for sharing Paul.<BR>><BR>> I also am unsure of the respondents. Could you put up a break down of the people who replied? Age, platform reply was made, gender? If you collected that data that is. From most other sources Consoles beat a PC for games share by a rather whopping margin so I'm curious as to the reasons (apart from those you have already mentioned in the article).<BR>><BR>> Wesley
Lamont<BR>><BR>><BR>> On 03/08/2011, at 2:29 PM, Paul Turbett (Black Lab Games) wrote:<BR>><BR>>> The survey was web-based, so it could be taken on any web-enabled<BR>>> device. The other thing is that it asked how frequently each of the<BR>>> platforms are used for gaming, which I think it independent from the<BR>>> device being used to answer the questions.<BR>>><BR>>> However I think the results are skewed for sure - by the sources I<BR>>> used to direct people to the questionnaire. But like I said in the<BR>>> post, that was intentional, because the sources are related to the<BR>>> people I'm seeking to make games for.<BR>>><BR>>> L8r, Paul<BR>>><BR>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Michael B <<a ymailto="mailto:michael.sg@gmail.com" href="javascript:return">michael.sg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>>>> Hi Paul, i just had a thought, don't you think
that the results might be<BR>>>> compromised by having the survey on a PC?<BR>>>><BR>>>> Ie if the survey was given to kids in school, high school, tafe, even<BR>>>> university whether the kids and adults who couldnt afford PC's or iphone's<BR>>>> would make up a larger majority than PC users ?<BR>>>><BR>>>> Michael<BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>> On 3 August 2011 12:16, Paul Turbett (Black Lab Games)<BR>>>> <<a ymailto="mailto:paul@blacklabgames.com.au" href="javascript:return">paul@blacklabgames.com.au</a>> wrote:<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> Hi All!<BR>>>>><BR>>>>> For those interested in stats (and lets face it, that's everybody<BR>>>>> right?), I've just got around to my first post on the survey I<BR>>>>> conducted in June. <a href="http://blacklabgames.com.au/blog/2011/08/stats/" target=_blank
>http://blacklabgames.com.au/blog/2011/08/stats/</a><BR>>>>><BR>>>>><BR>>>>> L8r, Paul<BR>>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>>> PIGMI mailing list - <a href="http://pigmi.org/" target=_blank >http://pigmi.org/</a> - <a ymailto="mailto:pigmi@pigmi.org" href="javascript:return">pigmi@pigmi.org</a><BR>>>> Unsubscribe: <a href="http://lists.pigmi.org/listinfo.cgi/pigmi-pigmi.org" target=_blank >http://lists.pigmi.org/listinfo.cgi/pigmi-pigmi.org</a><BR>>>><BR>>><BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> --<BR>>> Paul Turbett<BR>>> Black Lab Games<BR>>> www.blacklabgames.com.au<BR>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>> PIGMI mailing list - <a href="http://pigmi.org/" target=_blank >http://pigmi.org/</a> - <a ymailto="mailto:pigmi@pigmi.org"
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