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Hamsterdam
New Zealand59 Posts
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Rasun
United States787 Posts
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GoatSwarm
Sweden63 Posts
I did the survey and tried to spread the word as far as my social connections go..  I am quite amazed and fascinated by this initiative and hard work, also it's very nice to see this kind of dedication towards research involving StarCraft. | ||
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XnG_777
713 Posts
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rUiNati0n
United States1155 Posts
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BrauL
Canada197 Posts
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
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Probulous
Australia3894 Posts
On September 02 2011 05:45 CrushDog5 wrote:+ Show Spoiler + On August 24 2011 08:29 State wrote: Why cap the replays a user can upload to one? Wouldn't it be better for the study if a single user could upload as many as five replays? Good question, we debated the decision heavily. There are several reasons: First, we though that making it easy for people was very important. This study is the first of it's kind, and we thought we'd get a better response if it was simple to do. As it turned out, only half the people that do the study complete all three steps. If we had required multiple replays, it might be even less. Second, having multiple replays, and particularly different numbers of replays from each person, creates a scenario which is more difficult to analyze for statistical reasons. Because we have never done a mass replay study, we were reluctant to add more complexity to the analysis. Third, because we are interested primarily in identify league characteristics, rather than individual player characteristics, it can be better to get fewer games from more players. + Show Spoiler + If we have some success with this project, we will likely do followups where players submit many games over the course of a long time. We'll have better measures of individual progress, in that case. Thanks for participating, and please spread the word. The more participants, the better. Interesting study, you guys have obviously thought about selection bias. My question is what is the distribution of responses that you are receiving within each league. Are you getting getting a normal distribution of players or are your responses skewed towards the higher end of the spectrum? It's a gut feel, but what if people who have just entered masters, don't feel they "represent" masters? Do you have a way of ensuring that you get a decent distribution of replays? Also do you expect to have similar numbers of participants in each league or would you stratify based on blizzard's estimates for each league. For example, Bronze would be expected to have much larger numbers than masters, how is that dealth with? Apologies for the 1001 questions, just interested as my guess is that this study would have a hard time getting a sample, that is actually representative. Good luck! Edit: On September 06 2011 10:22 DystopiaX wrote: Wow, surprised that the split between races is so fair, and that there are so many less Terran, since many people I talked to (especially beginners) picked Terran cause they heard it was the easiest to play and they were somewhat used to it cause of the campaign. The real question is whether that distribution is consistent between leagues. I would imagine that terran is over-represented in the lower leagues and via-versa with zerg. | ||
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TheLink
Australia2725 Posts
Also as a SEA player I couldn't figure out how to link to my NA profile (where most of my games are). It is also possible that I loaded the wrong replay and you now have a random pro replay.  | ||
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Jubeiz
Canada23 Posts
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Jonoman92
United States9103 Posts
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Doko
Argentina1737 Posts
Just curious, not trying to be a dick. | ||
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Delinius
United States324 Posts
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Mobius_1
United Kingdom2763 Posts
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Sliver
United States402 Posts
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lichter
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
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CrushDog5
Canada207 Posts
On September 06 2011 14:36 Sliver wrote: Done. Hope the replay I uploaded didn't have any terrible BM on my part. t.t BM may correlate with skill, look at Idra. | ||
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MrBitter
United States2940 Posts
TeamLiquid is absolutely the central gathering point for the Starcraft 2 community, but there is a tremendous amount of Europeans who don't really come here.  | ||
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Mr.Brightside
Australia317 Posts
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CrushDog5
Canada207 Posts
On September 06 2011 16:53 MrBitter wrote: I think you'd get a lot more feedback from the EU community (at least in Germany) if you'd post on sites like readmore.de and taketv.net TeamLiquid is absolutely the central gathering point for the Starcraft 2 community, but there is a tremendous amount of Europeans who don't really come here. I'll check them out. Thanks for the tip. | ||
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