Team structure factors (gender, age, game experience) markedly influence TEAMUP speed and distance but not avoidable mistakes¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? All-male teams and younger teams are significantly faster and walk less in TEAMUP, but do not make fewer avoidable mistakes. → Mayer 2018

Evidence¶

Mayer 2018¶

Mayer, I. (2018). Assessment of Teams in a Digital Game Environment. Simulation & Gaming, 49(6), 602-619. https://doi.org/10.1177/1046878118770831

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Intercorrelation analysis at team level (N=106) of team structure factors against logged in-game performance indicators. The article reports "All-male teams and younger teams are significantly faster and walk less" while making no fewer avoidable mistakes; hypotheses 1-5 were accepted.

"All-male teams and younger teams are significantly faster and walk less. However, they do not make fewer avoidable mistakes."

Discussion¶

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