Please take my survey on psychology and chess... - Chess Forums - Page 2

Jcbutler · 2019-03-20T14:05:03-07:00

Hi everyone, I'm a psychologist looking at the issue of attitudes toward competition and chess. I would greatly appreciate it if you would take my survey at the following link. It should only take about 5 minutes of your time and it would be very helpful. Thanks! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/

DiogenesDue

Mar 24, 2019

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Jcbutler wrote:

Titled_Patzer wrote:

If those were psychological questions, I'm a monkey's uncle.

FYI .... online blitz ratings have absolutely no correlation to OTB ratings. This assumption has been repeatedly shown to be nonsense.

You asked how a player "feels" after winning or losing with a dozen different terms and separate questions; none being descriptive of my personal experience. Why not ask one question instead and let the responder fill in a description with their own words; instead of putting words into their mouths? Really was no need for the dozens of subjective adjectives asking the same thing. A single question would have sufficed.

Well, probably not an uncle anyway...

In fact, most of the questions were adapted from published psychological measures, such as the PANAS and Ryckman's CAS.

FYI, the correlation between blitz ratings and OTB ratings is actually r=.93, p<.001, according to one sample at least. I feel that estimate is actually a little high, but they are clearly and obviously correlated. How could they not be? If I can play chess well over the board, I can probably play decently online too.

I won't argue further. My peer reviewers can decide the merit of the research, when or if it comes time for publication.

Hey, following TP's logic, you can rewrite the entire Myers-Briggs as 4 fill in the blank questions like so:

1. Do you think you are introverted or extroverted, or it does it just depend sometimes, and on what factors? Write whatever you want and we'll categorize your answer by hand by deciding what you meant on your behalf...

Then you can get rid of all that "Would you rather read a book or play a game outdoors?" crap ...and all those long form psych tests where they ask you how you feel about your father, then ask again later on to see if you answer the same way? Redundant!