Like everyone else said - filled it out, look forward to the results.
Poll: Demographics and Gaming Style [Update: Results are in]
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#102
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 02:39
JadedJune
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All done. Look foward to the results.
#107
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 05:56
Ulathar
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Done. Looking forward to the results. :-)
#108
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 06:00
azrael_1289
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Done. Will be interesting to see the results.
#112
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 07:26
SporkFu
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Done. For the last question, where is the 'choose all' option? 
... I mean, really? I had to choose five? At least eight on that list are tied.
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#113
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 09:12
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That's just the problem. Many people who will fight tooth-and-nail for the girl-pink-boy-blue dichotomy. It's become an odd sort of truth in our behaviors, but... it's not biological. It arose out of the rise in colored textiles in the 1920s. During that time, there was considerable debate as to whether boys should be pink, or maybe girls should be green. Generations later, it's become a firm social expectation that females should like pink, and males who like pink must be gay or something.
More importantly, it has become engrained at a fundamental behavioral level, such that it's virtually impossible to separate from something that isn't biological. I will borrow a similar example of social expectation from Brant Wenegrat's Theater of Disorder:
Maybe. All i can say is what i see in my normal life, since i am not studying biology or social sciences.
About the color issue though:
My niece is crazy about pink. All she wants to wear has to have at least a bit of pink in it. And her parents were firmly against such stereotypes. They painted her room yellow when she was a kid and her clothes were from as many different colors as possible. She hasn't even watched TV yet, but she still wants everything to be pink.
#114
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 09:16
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Maybe. All i can say is what i see in my normal life, since i am not studying biology or social sciences.
About the color issue though:
My niece is crazy about pink. All she wants to wear has to have at least a bit of pink in it. And her parents were firmly against such stereotypes. They painted her room yellow when she was a kid and her clothes were from as many different colors as possible. She hasn't even watched TV yet, but she still wants everything to be pink.
To add to whom you quoted, it used to even be reversed. For a couple decades, pink was considered a boy color and blue a girl color. The explanation was that pink is simply a light shade of red and red is a very strong and masculine color which meant that pink was too, whereas blue is a rather soft and gentler color in general and thus would be more fitting to girls. It was around the 50's or 60's where that started to reverse.
http://www.livescien...-blue-boys.html
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#117
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 09:25
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So I felt weird selecting the "gender and class of your first playthrough" question. I picked Qunari mage because that has been my plan since female Qunari's being a choice was revealed, and I haven't changed my mind. And yet if a future gameplay video shows warriors or rogues being awesome enough, my plan could change. So while I'm not undecided and am pretty sure that will continue to be my choice, it isn't set in stone either. Basically I have a plan, but that plan could change with significant future info on classes. I chose Qunari mage, but I don't know if that was right considering this.
#118
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 09:26
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Done. Interested to see the results when released.
#120
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 09:43
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Dies mei 
Interested to see what sort of results you get
#121
Posté 14 juillet 2014 - 10:04
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My niece is crazy about pink. All she wants to wear has to have at least a bit of pink in it. And her parents were firmly against such stereotypes. They painted her room yellow when she was a kid and her clothes were from as many different colors as possible. She hasn't even watched TV yet, but she still wants everything to be pink.
This is a complicated issue. First, individual variance would have it that you'd expect a person of either gender to prefer it at random. That one person would like it would be unremarkable, and it's within the realm of possibility that this is independent of any social influence. Second, it's rather futile to attempt to address the gender bias as an individual in the first place. Your child would have to more or less be stuck in a bubble for 14 years. What's significantly worse is when you turn pink into the forbidden fruit in the attempt to evade the influence of bias. Your strategy could also end up counterproductive. I bet myself that I could find a six-degrees support of this problem from andy69156915's link, and lo and behold, I had to follow only one link to this gem:
It's unclear whether the [genderless child] experiment will work out, said Katrina Karkazis, an anthropologist at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University and author of "Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority and Lived Experience" (Duke University Press, 2008). That's because gender messages are inescapable in our society, Karkazis told LiveScience. However, Karkazis said, Storm's parents are correct in thinking that people treat children differently based on gender, sometimes in very subtle ways.
One 1975 study, published in the journal Sex Roles, put 42 non-parents in a room with a 3-month-old baby and three toys: a football, a doll and a gender-neutral teething ring. A third of the volunteers were told the baby was a girl, a third thought the baby was a boy, and a third were told that the experimenter couldn't recall if the baby was a boy or a girl.
Unsurprisingly, when the volunteers thought the baby was a girl rather than a boy, they were much more likely to offer "her" a doll to play with. If they didn't know the baby's gender, the male volunteers tended to go for the teething ring, while women offered the baby the doll. That could mean that women see dolls as less gendered, or it could mean that the men in the study hewed more strictly to gender roles.
Overall, people held and touched the baby less if they thought "she" was a girl. When they didn't know the sex, a gender difference emerged again: Men held the unknown baby less, while women held the baby more.
Likewise, parents view their own children through the lens of gender. A 1991 analysis of 172 previous studies on gender bias found that parents, especially fathers, encourage activities for their children based on sex stereotypes. A study published in 2000 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology found that moms of girls underestimate their 11-month-old's crawling abilities, while moms of boys overestimate crawling skills, highlighting a trend in which male infants are seen as more hardy. A 1995 study published in the journal Sex Roles found that these gender-based perceptions emerge quickly, with moms and dads rating their newborn girls as less strong, finer featured, more delicate and more feminine than newborn boys.
...and even if everyone manages to sneak through that minefield with all their genderless limbs still attached, you have to then provide a model to the child which is similarly genderless. That is, all the effort goes to waste when the child models itself after a person who conforms to gender stereotypes.
In any case, don't mistake me for condemning this project or somesuch. It's an interesting sociological question one way or the other, and I also completed the survey. I just don't think it's a good idea to celebrate the data without understanding what they mean.
