My questionnaire - A maths G.C.S.E

[Mc. Lovin']

Hey, my name is(n’t) Apelord69, and in my maths course I am doing a statistics G.C.S.E, and I am at the stage of collecting the data for my investigation (alongside my friend called 'Z-Axis' who is in the same class as me), so here’s mine.

I am investigating many different things. Firstly I am investigating how age affects time spent on games, because I have always assumed that younger people play more games, however as I have branched into the wonderful world of MMORPGs, and I have only met 3 people my age so far. Is this because mainly older people play MMORPGs? Or is it simply that the older you are the more games you play?

I am also investigating the relationship between the time you spend on games and your IQ. New games have come out that have proven to increase your IQ (or at least your brain age), and I was wondering if this is because the game is well made, or if it is just because it is simply game.

So please answer the following questions as truthfully as possible, this is going towards my G.C.S.E .

If you don’t want to put in your age (or aren’t allowed to) the don’t feel you cant post, just answer the other questions

Finally if you don’t want your answers to be readable by other GiantITP members then you can e-mail me at *dead thread - no spam please*.

What is you age?

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)?

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)?

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)?

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)?


Thanks for your time
If you have time at the end I'm sure that Z-Axis would really appreciate you posting in his questionnaire too.

[Jimp]

We have to give our IQ? Whatever happened to multiple intelligences theory.

[Belkarseviltwin]

You're doing GCSE stats coursework? Bad luck. You're the last year to have to do it!

[Penguinizer]

I want to give out my age.
I got 127 IQ. (is that ok)
I think I spend around 15-20 hours a week on games. Maybe less.
Computer
Tie between RPG and FPS

[ufo]

What is you age? = 12

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)? = 115. Sounds a bit.. untrue..

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)? = 10 a day, approx.

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)? = Only play on computer.

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)? = 50% RPG, 30%RTS 20%FPS.

[Ryuuk]

What is you age?
-17

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)?
-According to that, 135

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)?
-Gaming, I play little on the weekdays but I watch my brother play Flyff and find it oddly entertaining If that counts then probably 2 hours every weekday, around 4 on Saturdays (Mostly Warcraft III, but some Guitar Hero and Devil May Cry As well) and probably 2 on Sundays. Around 16 total.

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)?
-Probably PC

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)?
-RTSs, RPGs and Action tied for second

[The Prince of Cats]

What is you age? 26

What is your IQ? 156 (MENSA tested)

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)? I play PC games for about 12-16 hours a week, I do PnP games for 4 hours a week.

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)? PC

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)? RPG

[Khantalas]

What is you age?

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)?

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)?

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)?

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)?

17.

170 (or so I was told).

Not as much as I'd like to. Around 25.

Normally PC, but recently PS 2.

ACtion, platform, strategy and RPG, as well as any crosses between these.

[Pocket lint]

What is you age?
32

What is your IQ?
Not quite sure - I've never taken an official one other than the army's, and they use a different scale. I usually score around 150-160.

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)?
3 hours pen&paper gaming, another 2-odd on the computer

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)?
Computer

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)?
Strategy, adventures (not necessarily rpg)

[Mc. Lovin']

Thanks for posting guys, this will be really usefull, if you wish I shall post the results of the experiment here, and my grade of corse

What is you age? 14

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)? 127

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)? about 14 (wow)

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)? Pc ftw

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)? Fps

[okpokalypse]

What is you age?

34

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)?

Via Tickle (US): 144 ; Intellectual Type: Visionary Philosopher

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)?

4 - 6 Hours Weekly.

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)?

Computer

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)?

Pen n' Paper RPG. (With Su'Doku a Close 2nd right now.).

[okpokalypse]

A Note on IQ Testing... For purposes of his study, it would make the most sense if everyone could take the 5 minutes to do the linked IQ Test - otherwise, you're dealing with differing scales, and the statistic is useless.

(I can appreciate this because I myself did some statistics back in college, and if your population isn't gauged by a consistent means, the results are useless)

[Maestro]

What is you age? 14

What is your IQ? 136

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)? 5

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)? computer

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)? RPG

[lucifa]

What is you age? 25

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)? 152

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)? 12

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)? PS" / GBA

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)? RPGs

[Ethdred]

Man, I couldn't get a score out of that IQ test - maybe that says something about my IQ!

Though the questiosn in the test just confirm all my prejudices about the unreliability of IQ tests

[LotharBot]

What is you age? 26

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)? The last time I took that particular IQ test I scored about 150.

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)? 12 hours on D&D, 12 hours on Descent, and 6 hours on card games. 30 hours total.

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)? PC

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)? Socially, I prefer RPG's. For adrenaline, FPS's. To just waste a few minutes, card games and puzzle games. If pressed, I'd say my current favorite is tabletop RPG.

[Khantalas]

Tickle says my IQ is 165, though the fact is, that particular test is in English, which is not my native tongue, and the test appearantly has some proverbs and stuff. When I take an IQ test in my own language, it says my IQ is 170 (or 180, they can never be sure). Appearantly, I am some sort of weird genius.

Though I would place it no higher than 140 myself. I tend to suck at academic studies and don't have the intellect to force myself to study. Besides, those IQ tests mean very little. Even though their results mean I'm very, very intelligent and are great to brag about the results of. Ask me a simple Calculus question and see me get stumped spectacularly.

[Bryn]

What is your age? 15

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)? 135, according to the linked test.

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)? (pi*7+3n)^5+42.3 recurring Call it 10 hours. Est. only, probably wildly out.

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)? PC

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)? Strategy (both on computer and off) and RPG (off computer)

[RS14]

Age: 16
IQ: 140, according to the test linked to.
How long each week: 9, maybe, on average? Usually I play a lot, but I've not played any games in the last couple of days. It's not uncommon for me to play nethack for several hours each day, but I go through phases where I don't play at all.
I play PC exclusively.
Favorite type: Roguelikes, RTS.

[Ikkitosen]

Age: 27
IQ: 138 from linked test
Long: Average 10 Hours
Platform: Pc recently, PS2 previously
Type: Strategy

[axraelshelm]

133 ah sheesh don't need a high IQ anyway and aged 24 and spend 10-13 hours playing games either roleplay or ps2 for some hack and slash.

[InaVegt]

What is you age? as good as 17 (16th of march is my birthday, in case you want to know)

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)? (dutch standard scale, might be different from your scales) 143 (genius level)

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)? video games: ¼ hour max, PnP RPGs: at least 10 hours a week, probably closer to 20

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)? PS2/Wii

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)? RPG

[daggaz]

29. 136. Way too long 40 hours minimum. Computer. RPG.

[Toliudar]

What is you age? 37

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)? 142

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)? 5-8

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)? computer

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)? RPG

[The Prince of Cats]

Okay... By definition, the average IQ is 100 but not only is the average here higher, but nobody here had admitted to being under 100...

Either a lot of people are lying (which I actually doubt) or here is a trend to follow up on...

[LotharBot]

It's a widely known trend. People with high IQ's tend to gravitate toward D&D and similar "thinky" games. They also tend to gravitate toward internet forums and sophisticated "nerd humor" comics like OoTS. So you're going to see a lot of abnormally high IQ's in a place like this.

Now, that's compounded by the fact that most online IQ tests only get you very approximate results. My little sister once took one (I think it was the one posted here) and scored a 196, 6 standard deviations above the mean -- which would make her among the 10 smartest people in the world. She was fairly young at the time, and while smart, certainly isn't THAT smart. I suspect the reason she scored so high is that IQ tests often scale for age, so young intelligent people will tend to have very inflated scores. When I was in my mid-teens I regularly scored in the 170s on IQ tests, and now I score in the low 150s.

IMO your statistics would be much more reliable if you had people take an independent test that didn't account for age and just counted raw correct/incorrect results. Or something like SAT or GRE scores.

[Charity]

What is you age? 35 last count

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)? by your test 140

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)?
Video games? I'll assume so ~ 8 this is quite variable

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)?
Computer and lately Wii


What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)?
I think your choice of website may skew your data horribly on this one.
RPG's

[Jade_Tarem]

I would love to take your IQ test, but at the end there's this unending miasma of advertisements - It wouldn't be so bad except that it helpfully auto-signs me up for various junk. I have a policy about going too far with that.

Edit: I got through the miasma. By your test my score is 140 - slightly higher than my clinically tested one (136).

The average IQ is 100. That means that there are 3.5 clinically retarded people or 7 pretty slow ones to balance out Khantalas, assuming his figure is accurate. 80 is clinically retarded. 130 or so is gifted. 150 is genius level. That's to the point of doing extended calculus problems in your head, multiplying 5 digit numbers at age 2 and never, ever having to study anything because you immediately grasp every ramification of everything that passes your way. I think that whatever IQ tests are registering everyone and thier mother up in the 150's, 160's, or 170's are just a tad off maybe... or else we need to submit these findings to real, hardcore science, that DnD attracts geniuses.

Age 19

About 15 hours a week gaming.

Favorite Platform: PC

Favorite Game Genre: RPG

[Jannex]

What is you age? 23.

What is your IQ (here is a link to an IQ test)? 140 by the linked test. I was tested as a young child (IQ tests for children have different standards than tests for adults) and was told I scored 168.

How long do you approximately spend on games per week (In hours)? Tabletop roleplaying games? Approximately 15 hours a week, though that varies wildly depending on how many games I'm in at any given time, and if there's a LARP event that week.

What is the platform you play on most (e.g. computer, X-Box, PS2)? Lately, Gamecube (I <3 Tales of Symphonia).

What is your favourite type of game (e.g. Rpg, Fps)? RPG.

[Khantalas]

However, note that Prince_of_Cats has his IQ score MENSA tested, whatever that means. His score on that test may be even above 165. Or below 156. I had that given test three times, and I had the following results in this order: 170, 160, 165.

Bah. I am not that smart, anyway. That test is rigged. Rigged, I tell you.