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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: headdie on March 15, 2016, 05:27:14 pm

Title: What is in a user name?
Post by: headdie on March 15, 2016, 05:27:14 pm

Ok so ran into an interesting study conducted on LoL players regarding player names and what that indicates about them based on registration data which was made anonymous and report/honor data associated with that account.  the reading is heavy going for me but figured some here might be interested

University of York summary piece https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2015/research/usernames-video-gamers/
www.sciencedirect.com published report http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563215301655

Title: Re: What is in a user name?
Post by: 0rph3u5 on March 15, 2016, 06:20:02 pm

Well, the results in the summary don't sound all that suprising ... but then again their data on the correlation betwen anti-social behavior and user-names that have the same attribute is a bit narrow (NA servers only, run through an english-only filter)

But a good find, thank you for sharing