Do You Have Children?
Annual Household Income
||Have you ever tried playing on a PVP server?
If so, how enjoyable was the experience?
"Shadows of Luclin" Expansion
Dragon Raids and Plane Raids
A character above level 50
Leader of a Guild
About ... ?
Buying items from E-Bay
Do you usually smoke cigarettes when you play EQ?
Do you usually drink alcohol when you play EQ?
Upgrading computer hardware for EQ
Upgrading internet connection for EQ
Questions or comments can be directed to Nicholas
I would like to thank Doug Davis, Professor of Psychology
at Haverford College, for everything he has taught me and for all
the support he has given me for the past two years. I would also
like to thank Matt Nocifore, Assistant Director of Academic Computing
at Haverford College, for letting me use his CGI script to process
I would also like to thank EverLore.com and EQVault.com
for helping me publicize my study. Finally, I would like to express
my gratitude to all the people who took the time to participate
in this ongoing study, especially to those who continue to remain
involved in the study.
Copyright, May 2001, by Nicholas Yee.
Text excerpts and graphs should be attributed to:
"The Norrathian Scrolls: A Study of EverQuest" (version
2.5) by Nicholas Yee, 2001.
Direct quotations from respondents are used in this
report. All quotations have not been edited for spelling or grammatical
mistakes. No quotations included make direct reference to any named
character or player.
When information on statistical tests is included
in this report, the statistical test used is mentioned first. Degrees
of freedom are mentioned in square brackets, followed by the result
of the test, ie. T-value or F-value. Means of groups tested are
given next, with their respective number of subjects given in round
brackets. P-values are reported last. For example, (T=-4.96,
Mmale(918)=25.2, Mfemale(163)=29.0, p<.001). In a partial listing,
"N" refers to the number of subjects.
P-values refer to the probability of the result
occurring due to chance alone. A p-value of .05, that is 1/20, is
the standard cutoff for statistical significance. Most significant
results in this report are significant at p<.001, or less than
1/1000. The word "significantly" in this report refers
exclusively to statistical significance.
The above visual aid will be used to summarize
personality data. In this example, the bolded "A" implies
that Agreeableness is linked with the question or variable being
discussed. Descriptions of the personality scales used can be found