Re: Spirit of the Game Survey- Please Take!

Hannah, I wish you well with this project, but I hope you are at the
early stages.

I think Alex Peters was rude in his response, but I disagree with
Chris in that I think this is an open forum for critique of any survey
posted here.

I think this survey has some poorly crafted questions. As a graduate
student in what I am assuming is some area of social science, you are
probably aware of how poorly crafted questions can skew outcomes to
survey questions.

Questions # 1-4 suggestion:
1) Break these up into scenarios that are different based upon whether
your teammate asks you for feedback on the call, and whether their
call was obviously (objectively) bogus or you simply believe
(subjectively) that they made the wrong call and you had best
perspective. I'm guessing that your measurement scale will treat as
more spirited those who pipe up and tell their teammate they made the
wrong call. Without more factual detail, this may be a bad
measurement. Do you want to know people's response to: "It is
spirited to correct your teammate where they don't ask for your
feedback and where their own perspective may in fact be pretty good."?
That's probably what you are getting now.

Question # 5 suggestion:
As Alex points out, the question as phrased is more a measure of
smarts than spirit. The survey should read: "It is within the bounds
of SOTG to draw a foul on a high stall count during universe point."
You also may want to flesh out the details of how the foul is
"drawn." If you are getting fouled on pretty much every pivot and
know that all you need do to draw a foul is to legally pivot again,
that is quite different spirit from leaning into a marker who has
actually been marking legally.

Question # 6 suggestion:
As Alex says, substitute "within the bounds of SOTG" for "a strategic
part of the game."

Question # 7 suggestion:
Place the word "team's" after "opponent's" and "my." Consider
specifying whether the responder actually disagrees with the outcome
of the prior "close call."

Question # 8 suggestion:
Break up physical and verbal "assault" into different questions. The
law varies about this, but in most places, a verbal attack is not an
"assault" unless harm is threatened. I'm guessing you want to survey
whether players say mean things to teammates/opponents where harm is
not threatened.

Question # 9 suggestion:
substitute "within the bounds of SOTG" for "understandable." A person
can understand why people talk trash while also choosing not to talk
trash and regarding it as unspirited.

Questions # 10-11 suggestion:
substitute "within the bounds of SOTG" for "fair." A person can think
it is "fair" to hack or yell at an opponent who is doing the same yet
refrain from such reactions because they regard SOTG as a system where
people should sometimes take the high road. In other words, just
because it is "fair" to react in a certain way does not mean such a
reaction is within the bounds of SOTG. Like if a guy spits in your
face in a fine restaurant, it is "fair" to punch him, but you still
may not punch him because you don't want to get into a brawl while
people are sitting next to you enjoying foie gras.

As to the questions about playing in "competitive games," you may want
to use some objective measurement of what constitutes a competitive
game. The subjective perspective of the responder on whether the game
is competitive is important, but it may help you to know what types of
games they regard as competitive.

Good luck.


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