At the start of the year Geek Native gave away a bundle of books from Brandon Sanderson’s The Reckoners series. To win Firefight and Steelheart competition players had to say what they would do with super powers. As this is a competition with just over 100 responses this is not science but it is interesting. […]
Gamers more likely to put honour before family
At the start of the year Geek Native ran a competition to win Giovanni’s Island. This emotionally powerful anime tells the story in life on a Japanese island at the end of the World War II when the Russian army occupied the territory. To enter the competition we asked readers to answer a set of […]
Is there a connection between workout preferences and weapon preferences?
In December 2014 Geek Native held a competition to give away a number of copies of To Go Viking from Safecracker Pictures. To Go Viking is a documentary that follows a group of Viking reenactors as they travelled the world and battled. To enter the competition readers had to answer a poll. They had to […]
9 of the most interesting stats discovered by Geek Native in 2014
In 2014 Geek Native started using polls as an entry mechanism to the competitions the site runs. There’s been no shortage of giveaways and other comps, we like to connect readers to easy chances to boost their collection of geeky goodness. There’s a competition open when this post gives too – a chance to win […]
Even anime fans think anime tends to objectify women
What do you think of when you think of anime? Giant robots? Huge eyes? Women in skimpy costumes? Women with huge eyes, in skimpy costumes, riding giant robots? In a competition to win a copy of Patema Inverted Geek Native asked an entry question. This was not a huge competition. People may just have ticked […]
Sci-fi fans expect hostile aliens; everyone else predicts friendly aliens
This isn’t robust scientific research. People may have lied. There was a pretty big assumption in the question as well. Geek Native didn’t ask “Do you think there are aliens out there?” we asked whether aliens would be hostile or friendly if we met them. The question was asked in a competition to win the […]
Scientists more likely to believe in “unknown creatures” in the sewers
This is not a robust piece of research. This is a write-up of a Grimm competition in which contestants could win a copy of a novel from the urban fantasy TV show called The Killing Time. To enter the competition readers had to answer a poll with two parts; Whether the reader worked in science […]
Gamers 50% more willing to explore wormholes than everyone else
If you found a tear in reality, a rip in time and space, what would you do? In the event of a wormhole encounter in which you luckily had a choice whether to go through or not your decision would be the choice of a lifetime. Geek Native was curious as to whether gamers might […]
Gamers versus Models for life after the apocalypse
I’ll admit to have been guilty of pro-gamer apocalypse thoughts. I figured that in the event of surviving an apocalypse that gamers, traditional tabletop roleplayers, would be good to people to associate with. Why? Roleplayers tend to have a wide knowledge of tips, tricks and tactics when it comes to weird situations, survival and travel. A […]
Sci-fi readers less likely to enjoy sci-fi films
Geek Native’s little slice of research on sci-fi movies is not very scientific. It will not stand up to any real scrutiny but you may find it interesting anyway. Do you agree with the research? Do you suspect that sci-fi book fans will tend to be more critical of movies than everyone else? Here’s what […]
