Context

This dataset looks at the demographics of World of Warcraft players–gender, age, sexuality, etc.–and how they play the game–role, race, class–to see if there is an association between any of them. Specifically, I was interested in how gender and sexuality affects the gender of the character they play, but there are many other things to look at. This data was gathered through a Google Forms survey, which was then posted on Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, and my WoW guild's Discord server.

Content

There are 14 columns, 100 rows (not including the titles). 12 of those columns were gathered from a Google Forms survey, and the last two were added by hand. They are:

• Timestamp: Useless. Just when the survey was completed.
• Gender: The gender of the player.
• Sexuality: The sexuality of the player.
• Age: Age of the player.
• Country: Country the player lives in.
• Main: The gender of character the player mains
• Faction: The faction the player mains.
• Server: The server(s) the player mains.
• Role: The role(s) the player mains (DPS, Healer, Tank, or any combination therein).
• Class: The class(es) the player mains. This was a question where the respondent check any number of boxes, so there are many different ways it could be answered. Hard to analyze.
• Race: The race(s) the player mains. Same as class.
• Max: The number of 110s (max level) the player has. Only numerical variable in the dataset.
• Attracted: The gender the player is attracted to.
• Type: The "type" of person the player is. Combines gender and sexuality ("gay woman", "bi male", etc.)

Acknowledgements

This dataset belongs to me. I created the survey and compiled the data. However, I would like to thank stormwind-keep on Tumblr and earth2gem on Twitter for helping me get the survey out to a broader audience.

Inspiration

I already ran a bunch of my own analyses using R, but I could not find a good way to analyze the Class and Race variables. If anyone can figure that one out, please do.