Sode-303-Survey Says!
Meg joins Adam (Podgecast) and Scott (Story Shtick) to discuss the 2010 Gamer Podcast Listener Survey which you can download here:
Podcast Survey Listener Results
Check out Meg’s (and many others) article (and picture!) in the RPGirl Zine here:
Meg and Adam will be at GenCon- be sure to come find us! Twitter us: @bg_meg or @bafadam
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August 2nd, 2010 at 5:38 am
I’ve been on RPG Podcasts since back when I sent it more traffic than it sent me. The tables are turned now though. All praise Tevis and Macklin! Are you sure you grabbed podcast names from RPG Podcasts and not RPG Podcasters group? This first it would be crazy for me not to belong to, the second is on Yahoo, which means I’d be crazy to use it.
The Gamemaster show has a female podcaster, Erin. Likely that’s why it scored high for the Womyns. Also it seems minus BG’s, women chose the less potty-talk-ie podcasts. The BG’s do research maybe that helps carry them over?
Is there any way to make comments public? I’m interested in them. I’d take private and privileged also, if it let me read them.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Hey Clyde, thanks for the info on “The Gamemeaster Show”.
I just emailed David about getting you the comments, it should be no problem. Sorry, didn’t know you weren’t on the Yahoo Group.
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:20 pm
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August 3rd, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Clyde-
I can send them over to you tonight. Unless I forget and then it will be post Gencon.
I took them from rpgpodcasts.com, but like Scott pointed out, it only grabs shows that have updated in the last month, 3 months or 6 months ( I don’t remember which).
That might be the problem.
August 4th, 2010 at 12:23 am
Ah… must have caught me on one of my “vacations.” Thanks folks.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Just a note about statistical significance–the size of the sample only matters for statistical significance when the sample is a random one. The survey sample was not random. So be careful drawing conclusions for the bigger population.
August 21st, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Paul, I agree with your point, but in order to get a random sample for such a niche hobby would require a lot of time and money. That’s what the WotC Dancey survey was and they only did it once. So we can either assume that the self-selected sample here is representative of the larger roleplaying community and back that up with comparisons to other samples taken at Gen Con or back to the Dancey survey (which we have) or we can avoid drawing conclusions.
If I felt we couldn’t draw conclusions about all roleplayers from these surveys, I wouldn’t bother working on them. To me, that’s the whole point. I think we have the best method available of getting a broad, representative sample of the hobby without spending a lot of time and money doing hand-surveys at a convention. Furthermore, I think our method is consistent from year-to-year so while you may see some bias based on the self-selection of podcast listeners, we can legitimately use the survey to find trends over the years. I don’t see anyone else doing or attempting that.
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:28 am
Scott–
Your points make sense. I just think you need to be careful in making conclusions.
Also, it sounds like a number of questions could probably be defined better–even on the show you guys seemed to disagree and/or be unclear about what the questions meant.
Great project, though. I’ve participated both years.
December 15th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
This is real good to understand. Thanks.