Methodology
  • A standard instrument "Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons" by Yuker, et al.(1966) was slightly modified to be more age appropriate. (It still proved confusing to most children.)
  • Subjects answered half the Yuker questions, played the five minute game, and then answered the remaining questions. The randomized Group A and Group B respondents had inverted sets of before and after questions.
  • Paideia School: About 30 subjects in two sessions. Due to data corruption only 11 were useful.
  • Intel Computer Clubhouse at the Boys and Girls Club: In three sessions 18 usable subjects were collected.
  • Test administrators reported particular confusion by the negatively worded questions (where a more positive result indicates a less tolerant attitude). This seemed to be exacerbated by the color coding of the Likert boxes. Analysis determined that these answers simply added noise to the results and they were removed from the results.
  • ANOVA processing with SPSS was performed on the data by Nancy Kechner, PhD (University of Virginia).