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Gaming and Critical Thought (Survey)

Your participation (and help in promotion) is greatly appreciated!

I’ve started writing a series of posts about gaming and critical thought in kids. When I think of gaming — as I’m sure do many others — I think of cracking open a cardboard box and extracting a board, dice, cards, tokens, bits, pieces, and often a crisp sheet of rules. But I don’t want to limit my definition to that. A handful of dice, a deck of cards, or a pencil and paper can be the basis for the simplest game. And it goes from there to anything increasingly more complex than that…

More details about this effort, here.

Please take a moment to answer a short survey about this, and it would be much appreciated. If you have a blog (or another audience) please help me promote this. I won’t claim this as “formal research” but I will make the results and my own analysis public on this blog in the coming months.

All participant information will be kept anonymous and confidential. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to comment or email me at “brad” at this domain name.

Do you game?

As part of a series of articles I am writing, please participate in this informal gaming survey about your experience playing board games.

Where do you live?

How often do you play dice, card, board, or similar games?

 Daily

 Weekly

 Monthly

 Rarely

 Never

What types of games do you play? (Answer all that apply.)

 Simple card or dice games, like solitaire, cribbage, etc.

 Popular board games, like Clue, Scrabble, Monopoly, etc.

 Betting card games, like Poker, etc.

 Social games, like Cranium, Pictionary, etc.

 Complex card games, like Munchkin, Killer Bunnies, etc.

 Rare board games, like Settlers of Catan, Puerto Rico, etc.

 Very complex games, like D&D, Warhammer, Warmachine, etc.

 None of the above.

Which one type of gaming is your favorite?

Do you consider yourself a Gamer?

Yes   No  

Please provide a SINGLE WORD that you would attribute to someone who calls themselves a Gamer.

Please consider a skill or personal attribute that you think results from gaming and type your answer below:

What would you consider the most important reason you game?

 Social activity

 Personal enjoyment

 Pass the time

 Mentally engaging

 Stress relief

 Peer pressure

 Habit or hobby

 Personal profit

 Creative outlet

 Other


This survey powered by Survey Fly for WordPress.

Thanks, from the skep/dad blog!

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The skep/dad blog is meant to casually reflect on questions surrounding parenting and raising kids to become critical thinkers by asking questions and examining parenting ideas with a skeptical eye for facts and science. Each article is one dad's personal opinion, backed where relevant by literature and published research. skep/dad welcomes balanced discussion, comments, and ideas.

January 24, 2008 by Brad
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