1. What is the origin of your username?
It's a pun on my first name and translation of my last
2. Why is Compath so townie?
He isn't, but it was a good starting point
3. When is the last time you had a strawberry?
At least a year :[ so jealous of Clidd
4. Which of these would you prefer to spend your time doing this weekend (order from most preferred to least):
playing mafia, watching my favorite show, attending a concert = attending a sports game (while playing mafia on my phone)
5. On a scale of 0 to 10, how upset would you be if we lynched you today?
3 currently
6. If Hectic has 5 strawberries and DrDolittle has 2, how many does Luca have?
5
7. Imagine that you are scum this game: would it be true or false that you are scum?
false!
Answer Key: For the most part
what
people answer isn't as important as
how
they answer (or don't answer). The exceptions are questions 5 and 7, which surprisingly do trend differently in the way town and scum address them. Additionally, questions 6 and 7 do have actual correct answers: the answer to question 6 is '5'. The number of strawberries is the number of syllables in the user's name, flipped over (obviously though I don't expect anyone to have actually reasoned that). The answer to question 7 is 'false' if you are town because imagining that you are scum doesn't change your alignment.
Question 5 Trends: Town tend to answer this strongly with either a 0 or a 10. Scum tend to answer toward the center. Neither alignment ever responds with 5 (though I hypothesize this might be an indy approach) and only scum ever answers 4. Since no one answered 4, however, this question can only be used as a suggestion at best because while town and scum tend to answer differently overall, the response of an individual is unpredictable (with the exception of 4 and 5).
Question 7 Trends: This one is interesting. It can't be used to identify scum, but it can be used to identify town. With the exception of newbie scum, scum will answer 'true' 100% of the time. 1/10 town members, however, identify the correct logical conclusion and answer 'false.' Even scum that do reason it out still answer 'true' because answering 'false' looks suspicious. I'm actually really confident in this being a town indicator. Clidd is the only one to have answered this correctly.
As for the other questions, they are just fluff. Most of my data comes from live mafia (discord, skype, aim when it was a thing), so my goal with the upper questions is to sort of simulate the same type of mindset someone would be in if they were typing live (hence why it's important to answer them all in one go). As a user responds to the questions, it sort of primes them for the questions that I'm actually interested in below. Additionally, question 4 is something of a personal interest of mine. I've been curious to see how differences in personality influence the way people play the game. I've found this question to be a reliable way to quickly gauge a person's
temperament as well as their introversion/extroversion.
Primary Preference:
attending sports game = SJ, Guardian
attending concert = SP, Artisan
watching favorite show = NF, Idealist
playing mafia = NT, Rational
Primary and Secondary Preference:
attending sports game & attending concert = extroversion indicative
playing mafia & watching favorite show = introversion indicative
These aren't exact (for example, Kanna's primary preference is favorite show, but I think she is a classic NT. Also, while introverted preferences are accurate, it's not really possible to distinguish extroversion from simply being SJ/SP based on these questions alone). That being said, they are fairly good indicators. For example, I predicted Luca's exact order based on my
previous experience with him. I also predict that if Slaxx were to answer, his primary preference would be attending a concert. @Slaxx, will you verify? Slaxx and Iconium have a similar way of interpreting things. And the way we process information correlates with activity patterns in the brain which also correlate with personality features. Said another way, the way our brain is structured leads to differences in information processing which is ultimately responsible for the expression of our personality. Based on the way Clidd processes information, I also suspect that he and I probably have identical personalities.
Anyway, I'll answer some questions I missed and do reads in the next post.
In post 258, Luca Blight wrote: In post 255, Ame wrote:Uncomfortable at the lack of strawberries gracing this page
Slaxx and Hectic are my picks.
Luca and Compath as backups.
This is based on the answers, or generally?
I want to see your own answers and explanations for how you reached your conclusions.
Generally, though I have been using the questions as a suggestive starting point.
In post 210, Hectic wrote:you know who
what did i miss?? can you show me where please? i can't find any mention of why you're excluded
I wasn't excluded. He included me in his list. You also failed to mention a lack of DDL read which was similarly hidden.
In post 208, Hectic wrote:
In post 184, Ame wrote: In post 4, Compath wrote:Things are going to be
hectic
with you around.
VOTE: Hectic
In particular, I read Compath's joke as forced because the hectic pun is obvious and seems like something that has probably been made many times. From this, I thought Compath was either,
A. Awkward scum
B. Someone who has played with hectic and was hinting at who he was
The latter was my interpretation after thinking about it, and if it were the case it was town indicative to me because it would be unnecessarily putting himself out there / providing information to hectic. I scum read DDL for his serious vote because I felt he also picked up on the awkwardness, but instead of thinking it through to the alternative option (B), he stopped at (A), which was scum indicative to me (pushing over sorting).
had you arrived at this conclusion when you made post
6? is there any particular reason that you wanted to hold onto this read and ignore Icon/Officer "Officer" Officer's questions about it until now?
Hmm. I think this also indicates that you're not paying attention deeply. The answer to your first question is right
above the post you quoted. The second question is disingenuous as I wasn't ignoring Icon. I was very much willing to respond if he showed me the same courtesy. This is obvious from our
engagement and I'm not sure how you missed it.