Focus Friday, Part 2 | Gender Wars and Love Interests

It’s the weekend before Christmas, and today we have the second portion of yesterday’s post exploring some of the not-so-obvious results of the survey.  Having wrapped up the additional analysis of question 18 on it’s own, we are now going to jump right into some of the correlations we found when examining the responses to  questions 18 and 1.

What kinds of results were we interested in exploring?

• What proportion of male players play FemShep?
• What proportion of female players play BroShep?
• What proportion of each gender engage their Shepards in same-sex romances?
• What proportion only engage their Shepards in straight romances?
• What proportion of each gender engage in a specific romance?
• What is the gender composition of the players romancing each LI?

Some interesting stuff, right?  Well, go grab that cup of coffee, while the grabbing is good.  This post is epic, so maybe break it up into a couple of sittings, lol.

Focus Friday, Part 1 | Player Fidelity and Love Interests

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It’s that time again. Focus Friday. Time for us to make your ears to bleed and your brain liquify, due to the vast quantities of information we’re about to toss in your general direction.

Wait, you mean that’s not fun for you?

Huh. Weird.

Anyway… :]

About a month ago when we identified the bug with the survey data, I was trying to dig a bit deeper into the results to analyze the correlation between certain questions.  Specifically, the relationships between player gender and Love Interests (#1 and #18 on the survey).  I was also teasing apart the results of question #18 on its own.  There is a trove of information in the survey beyond the specific answers to individual questions, and this is the first time I decided to delve into these topics.

Consequently, we have some super-interesting stuff coming up.  After considering the amount of information we’d be going through, I decided to break this post up into two parts, with Part 2 coming out tomorrow.  So for now, go grab a cup of coffee, bottle of beer, glass of wine, or whatever.  Sit down and stay awhile — and don’t forget to pop back in tomorrow!