Understanding players’ behaviors via Elm city Stories:
An Analysis on the usefulness of the game as an evidence-based assessment tool
Emory DataFest 2022
March 2022
ASA Best Insight Award
Elm City Stories is an educational game that aims to identify teenagers who may need help in the future based on their performance in the game. This data analysis evaluates the game’s ability to understand and predict potential drug usage by correlating participants’ performance in the drug-related aspects of the game with their S5 survey result, which indicates their ability to resist drugs in the real world. We realized the “Dunning-Kruger Effect” and the “Imposter Syndrome” might play a role in the correlation study, and the S5 survey might have reliability issues.
