Despite tremendous interest in social games and game studies, the potential of game heuristics for the field of mixed methods remains unknown. This article introduces game heuristics to mixed methods research, showing how it was used in a specific study on the survival probabilities on the Titanic. Specifically, we describe how game heuristics was used to create the explanandum, code and interpret the qualitative material, and set up and interpret the quantitative model. Furthermore, we show and explicate how game heuristics was used to construct seven types of meta-inferences. The Titanic data set is especially interesting, since it is routinely used for statistical mono-method teaching; however, it can be shown that a mixed methods approach leads to a better explanation.

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泰坦尼克号游戏：将游戏启发式方法引入混合方法理论和数据分析

尽管对社交游戏和游戏研究有极大的兴趣，但是在混合方法领域中游戏启发法的潜力仍然未知。本文将游戏启发式方法引入混合方法研究，说明如何将其用于《泰坦尼克号》生存概率的特定研究中。具体来说，我们描述了如何使用游戏启发法创建解释，编码和解释定性材料，以及建立和解释定量模型。此外，我们展示并说明了如何使用游戏启发法来构建七种类型的元推理。泰坦尼克号数据集特别有趣，因为它通常用于统计单方法教学；但是，可以证明混合方法方法可以带来更好的解释。