You'd be shocked (as I was) how much my class struggled with answering - they had RL groups to answer from - seriously. One put something about the inequity of the prison system as an answer, a whole paragraph.Caedus said:1. Vorcha
2. Quarians
3. Asari
4. Humans
5. Salarians
6. Turians, Krogans
The questions are pretty much pointing at the answers. Might want to try something a bit more open?
OMIGOD YES ANOTHER PERSON WHO THINKS 'ME' STANDS FOR MIRROR'S EDGE!!!DoPo said:I wander, what is this survey for, actually? I mean, seeing it concerns Mass Effect (and not Mirror's Edge, as I subtly hoped befor clicking the title).
This.IrenIvy said:1) Vorcha, Batarian, Krogan
2) Quarian, Geth
3) Asari, Volus, Hanar
4) Humans
5) Salarians, Elcor
6) Krogan, Turian
Your avatar and it's position make this statement so much more awesomeV8 Ninja said:OMIGOD YES ANOTHER PERSON WHO THINKS 'ME' STANDS FOR MIRROR'S EDGE!!!DoPo said:I wander, what is this survey for, actually? I mean, seeing it concerns Mass Effect (and not Mirror's Edge, as I subtly hoped befor clicking the title).
Yes, I know I'm being very literal. The idea is to show that there are similarities between the groups in the game and real life groups who are stereotyped. That they do in fact exist. I know for 99% of gamers that's a "duh" kind of thing to establish, but for people who don't play video games and know nothing about them, it's got to be proven out. So I took a cluster set of stereotypes that apply to some of the groups my class has studied and then set the question to players of a specific game *with the same wording* so that I could show that these groups in the game are the same conceptually (on some level) as the groups my classmates know these ideas are associated with in real life.Soluncreed said:1.Vorcha/Krogan
2.Quarian
3.Asari
4.Humans
5.Salarians
6.Krogan
While I understand what you are doing, wouldn't it be better to instead list single attributes that people can associate one of the races? I mean, you are literally writing down exactly how each of the races are described in the games.
Would it be better to break up the different descriptions so that You are able to see how people stereotype them better?
Like this:
1)Violent
2)Low intelligence
3)Strong
4)Without a homeland (I'd say homeless instead because it's not a stereotype that the Quarians, who are obviously being referred to, are without a homeworld. That is a fact.)
5)Resource hoarders,
6)Thieves
7)Loyal
8)Emotional
9)Sensative
10)Weak
11)Job stealers
12)Highly intelligent
13)Timid
14)Technologically adept
15)Reserved
16)Logical
17)Militant
This way, specific stereotypes have a greater chance of being associated with different races. Violent=Vorcha, Krogan, or Batarian, Militant = Humans, Turians, or Krogan. Limit people to one answer and you can see what stereotypes are placed on different races.