Over half of WoW forum posts evince systems-based reasoning, most also showing understanding of feedback among system components¶
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q2 i? 58% of WoW forum posts evinced systems-based reasoning, and the majority of those also demonstrated understanding of feedback among components of the system. → Constance Steinkuehler 2008
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Constance Steinkuehler 2008¶
Constance Steinkuehler, Sean Duncan. (2008). Scientific Habits of Mind in Virtual Worlds. J Sci Educ Technol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-008-9120-8
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Coding of the 1,984-post priest forum corpus against AAAS-based systems reasoning codes found "Over half (58%) of the WoW forum posts evinced systems based reasoning", with posts discussing interacting components such as spell choice, rank, mana, and gear.
"Over half (58%) of the WoW forum posts evinced systems based reasoning, the majority of which also demonstrate an understanding of feedback among components of the system."
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Related Claims¶
- Systems-based reasoning and understanding feedback correlate moderately with discussion of the priest talent tree — related
- 86% of World of Warcraft forum posts constitute social knowledge construction rather than social banter — related
- Model-based reasoning appears in about one tenth of WoW forum posts, with model testing, mathematical modeling, and explicit computation progressively rarer — related
- 65% of codable WoW forum posts display an evaluative epistemology, contrasting with Kuhn's finding that only 15% of interviewed Americans held one — related
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Over half of WoW forum posts evince systems-based reasoning, most also showing understanding of feedback among system components |
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Over half of WoW forum posts evince systems-based reasoning, most also showing understanding of feedback among system components |
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