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⌈ Secret Post #2304 ⌋

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[Veronica Mars]

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[Trailer Park Boys]

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[Star Ocean: The Second Story]

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[Katekyo Hitman Reborn!]

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[Prometheus]

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[Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach, Zettai Karen Children]

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[Kids in the Hall]

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[Vividred Operation]

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[dick & dom]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[Spartacus: War of the Damned]

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[CATS]

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[Archer]

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[Doctor Who]

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OObviously this was only one study with a fairly small sample size (1,000 people took two surveys for me). The participants were 62.8% male and 37.2% female with a mean age of 22.95 years. My personality tests measured Big 5 personality traits, BIS levels, and BAS levels.

The first survey was comparing each class (Death Knights, Warriors, Paladins, Priests, Druids, Shamans, Rogue, Hunter, Warlock, and Mage). Unfortunately just using classing, I could find no significant relationships between class and personality. We hypothesized this was because the diversity in classes. So I grouped based on usual roles ([Group 1] Death Knights, Warriors, and Paladins as Tanks; [Group 2] Priests, Druids, and Shamans as healers; and [Group 3] Rogue, Hunter, Warlock, and Mage as DPS).

After crunching the numbers we got two significant scores. The results indicated a few differences between Group 1 (typically Tanks) and Group 3 (typically DPS). Relative to Group 3, Group 1 displayed less behavioral inhibition and neuroticism, as well as greater extraversion.

Edited 2013-04-24 23:18 (UTC)

Thank you for charing your results with us!

This seems really interesting, and I could read/talk a lot more about it!

But...the class alone isn't really indicative of role (Pallies can be healers, all the the classes have a DPS spec, Druids can be tanks...) Small sample size aside, the groups end up being rather arbitrary without spec taken into consideration.

I don't disagree with the general results (they're kind of obvious if you've ever rolled through LFD), but IMO, you probably would've gotten more accurate numbers if you'd broken it down by spec and split the data into two sets depending on playstyle (those who solo versus those who use LFD/LFR). And personally, I'd like to see if there are personality differences in people who frequently alt versus people with just one main and maybe a couple alts, but that's a different dataset entirely :P

Either way, it's still pretty cool. I don't mean to sound like I hate that you even tried, I just...majored in psych, and my first instinct with any study is to question the hell out of it ^^;

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