Psychology Study - Characteristics of Poker Players who use Online Poker Forums
You are invited to complete a brief online survey as part of a psychology study exploring characteristics of poker players who participate in online poker forums. The study is being conducted by Dr. Will Shead, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The purpose of this study is to gather descriptive information about poker players, particularly those who participate in online poker forums. The survey takes approximately 20 minutes to complete.
If you reside in Canada and you are at least 19 years of age or if you reside outside of Canada and you are at least 21 years of age, you are welcome to participate in this study. If you wish to participate, please follow the link below which will take you to an external website where the survey is located. Potential participants must read the informed consent page providing detailed information on the study.
The University Research Ethics Board (UREB) of MSVU has reviewed the proposal for this study and confirms that it respects the Tri-Council Policy Statement regarding the ethics of research involving human participants (MSVU UREB File #: 2010-028).
I’m conducting the above study which aims to gather descriptive information about poker players. I’m particularly interested in examining poker players who participate in online poker forums such as pokerforum.ca.
If you would like more details about the study not contained in the informed consent page before you choose to participate, or if you have any questions or comments about the study, you may contact me at will.shead@msvu.ca. Alternatively you can post your comments in this thread and I will respond to them as soon as possible.
A summary of the final data will be posted in this thread at the conclusion of the study. Thank you in advance for your participation and contributions to this study. I believe the findings will provide new and valuable insights into poker players.
+1. I'll probably do the survey, even if it is just to take a gander at the questions. If it is anything like the last one that showed up here, the questions will be worded so that, no matter how they are answered, the person(s) compiling the response will be able to interpret them however they choose to.
In short, gambling is bad, mmmmmmmkay?
Gamblers have psychological problems.
Governments should give more tax $$$ to study said problem.
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I don't gamble . . . but I will bet.
Governments should NOT be running gambling sites, nor casinos for that matter. Tax the crap out of them, like they do booze and ciggies, but run them? NO WAY.
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I don't gamble . . . but I will bet.
Governments should NOT be running gambling sites, nor casinos for that matter. Tax the crap out of them, like they do booze and ciggies, but run them? NO WAY.
i guess then the tax money generated from cigarettes and booze goes to funding cancer and rehab programs.
My point is that people should be allowed the freedom to make their own decisions, even if those decisons prove to be self-destructive.
Government's role should be as a framer and regulator, not an operator. Government, ideally, should be as minimally intrusive on an individual's day to day existence as possible.
The problem you get with government intrusion into gaming, or ciggies for that matter, is that the government becomes the biggest addict. Look at lotteries. Every change you see the OLG make is designed to increase the OLG's take, while reducing the payouts to the customers.
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I don't gamble . . . but I will bet.
Was pretty straight forward, filled it out. Very well explained and done. Curious to see what the final results are, looks they have this posted in enough places to get some numbers.
Thanks for your participation everyone. Much appreciated. I'll definitely post a summary of the results in this thread when I've conducted a preliminary analysis of the data (probably around mid-October).
Will
Location: Milton, poker capital of the world.. after Wloo that is.
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Originally Posted by MSVU_Psychology
Thanks for your participation everyone. Much appreciated. I'll definitely post a summary of the results in this thread when I've conducted a preliminary analysis of the data (probably around mid-October).
Will
Where's our summary? I need it for my next doctors visit...
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