Game Theory: The SECRET Psychology of Pokemon GO!

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Pokemon Go might be dominated by Team Mystic, but how do the teams break down for you loyal theorists? What do your teams say about you? I'm digging deep to uncover some of the underlying psychological trends among players in Pokemon Go.

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forget valor instinct and mystic force
my team rocket option

looks like Team Rocket's blasting off
yeah

yeah

hello internet welcome to game theory
we're not even I can tell you how the

stats work in pokemon go seriously like
a theory unto itself there are so many

hidden mechanics in this game

in addition to the unchangeable bass
tabs that are completely invisible to

the player as of last week it was just
determined that attack duration is

another huge variable in the system
because why would we ever need to know

stuff like this in order to play a game
to maximum effect right

hashtag sarcasm but if I can be serious
for a moment recent gameplay changes

like the removal of footprints making
the game infuriating Lee random and more

fleeing and escaping at upper levels
which just reeks of logging players to

spend more money on pokeballs all major
bug still exist in this game is turning

go nearly unplayable so niantic just
stop it you have an incredible thing

here the largest mobile gaming history
and one that people don't eight so don't

squander the goodwill we've given you

we can play a broken game for only so
long we can only lose so many newly

hatched pokemon before we get frustrated
and give up

we want you we want this game to succeed
please pay attention and communicate

with your community

alright let me get off my soapbox since
those are all potential meta phaeries

for another day

let's instead talk about happier things
since today it's time to finish our

discussion about the three teams in
pokemon go and what the team you're on

says about you as a person left time we
talked about how user interfaces the

bandwagon effect and the competitive
theory of colours all had their role in

team mystic claiming a whopping
forty-three percent of the games total

user base so if you haven't seen that
one click over here to catch them all or

really just that one video but today I
want to focus on the personality element

of the team rivalries because in my poke
a pole for you guys over thirty percent

of you said specifically that you chose
your pokemon team because it aligned

best with your personality and an
additional eleven percent said that the

team matched your play style so clearly
there are a lot of you out there who

openly felt a personal connection with
the motto and ethics of your pokemon

team but how right were you

does the science back up

team choice can someone truly get a
sense of your personality just by

knowing what pokemon go team you're on

surprisingly yes a seemingly meaningless
choice of team and color and pokemon go

whether intentional or not says a lot
about how your brain works and how you

interact with the world around you

here's what I managed to find out with
all of your help first off I want you to

make a hypothesis what do you think the
gender differences were you think that

girls were more likely to choose one
team over another because of color or

guys that she was a certain team because
one of their friends also did well in an

incredibly surprising twist guys and
girls showed practically no differences

in the reasoning behind why they chose
the teams that they were on which just

goes to show that female and male gamers
her a lot more like that people often

assume for both guys and girls
18-percent chose because a friend was on

the same team six percent because they
thought the team would provide them a

strategic advantage and eleven percent
shows because the line with their play

style the only major difference this
year was that thirty-three percent of

girls pick their team based on a
personality match compared to only 26

for guys and more guys

nineteen percent chose based on team
color as opposed to only fifteen percent

for girls but even those results are
incredibly close

it's also notable for you theorists out
there who are single and ready to mingle

at mystic is the team with the most
females over forty percent while valor

and instinct were both closer to thirty
percent so go out there and use that

info to capture yourself a date if you
know what I mean and it's actually

fairly self-explanatory what I mean go
out and find a date using that info

sup girl I heard you like team mystic
want to swing by my place so I could

show you my big brain

oh yeah show me that big brain of yours
now truly loyal theorists will remember

another theory we did about the game
like the strange where we use the

myers-briggs test to find out more about
the personality breakdown of gamers

watching this channel is a quick
refresher the test puts a person into

one of 16 different personality types
based on a four letter combination

introverted vs extrovert sensors vs into
ITER's thinkers vs feelers and judges vs

perceivers we found that on the whole
gamers are more introverted than the

rest of the population about 70 30
introverted where the regular population

is about

fifty-fifty what most gamers don't like
going out two big parties we also know

that gamers are more intuitive
represented by the end classification

this means gamers like bringing
information together

recognizing patterns and solving puzzles
it's a large part of what drives our

fascination with unraveling the
mysteries of games through theories like

the ones you find on this channel so
that's gamers as a whole but where

things got really interesting was when I
looked at the personality distribution

across pokemon goes three teams you're
an extrovert then chances are you picked

team valor although every team had more
introverted than extroverts relative to

the other teams valor had the highest
percentage of outgoing socially engaged

players people eager to engage with
other growers and thinking about

everything we've talked about this makes
total sense

extroverts like action and excitement
tend to be more competitive and show

more aggression in their games now look
at the way valor is described in the

game it's a team built around strength
and honing your skills and combat on the

other end of the spectrum team mystic
had the fewest extrovert of all three

teams this again makes sense though
since the team's emphasis is all about

gaining wisdom and intelligence rather
than using brute force

it's the most thoughtful team lending
itself to quieter more soft-spoken

people which makes it yet another reason
most people find themselves as a member

of team mystic as we just said most
gamers are introverted and so mystics

emphasis on thoughtful strategy most
aligns with the bulk of people actively

playing the game valor is also the odd
trainer out when it comes to intuitive

vs sensors and personalities are
significantly higher in both team mystic

and instinct for team valor has a
majority of sensors but what does that

mean

well as mentioned earlier into others
are all about taking what you know when

piecing it together with other
information that you have in order to

solve puzzles and build skills 13
mystics mantra of wisdom hits close to

home for that personality type team
instinct also has a lot of these

personalities because the team literally
uses the word intuition like three times

in its in game intro instead of
repetition grinding and competition

these teams focus on outsmarting the
game which is something into it errs

naturally get behind sensors on the
other hand

other information based on what's around
them and what they can experience in the

immediate world so for team valor
members gaining skills by doing things

like competing and battling makes total
sense because it's an experience that's

right in front of you its immediate it's
action-packed you're not trying to put

together some abstract puzzle pieces
you're learning by actively doing this

also helps explain why mystic an
instinct have unofficially united in

forums against Balor the way their
brains taken and process data is just

fundamentally different from the more
sensory red team

oh yeah and one last note about Valerie
based on the responses they are the ones

that are taking this game most seriously
with the highest percentage of people

picking this team because they thought
it would bring them an advantage in the

game and best align with their play
style so if you see more red Jim's than

blue or yellow in your neighborhood
that's a big reason as to why they're

the ones who care the most about
claiming and keeping those gyms you know

really when you look at it valor is like
the gryffindor pokemon go with an

emphasis on bravery and strength mystic
is like what the ravenclaw cunning and

clever i guess that means instinct is
what like hufflepuff

oh I am so sorry about that one hashtag
no hate mint ashtag hufflepuffs are

humans too but that begs the question
what about team instinct we now know the

major reasons why people pick T mystic
and team valor then why team instincts

well it's a good question

true to color theory very few people
picked instincts because they liked its

color as we touched on last time yellow
tends to be very far down on people's

color preference list instead based on
the data you guys provided me instinct

members were most likely to have joined
instinct because either a friend or

popular youtuber was playing as instinct
which is ironic since that's like the

antithesis of trusting your instincts
but whatever maybe there's a reason this

is a meme the other main reason people
reported sighting in his team instinct

was because they wanted to support the
underdog this sentiment was especially

true when i asked you guys to leave
comments on part one of this series so

why why are humans so eager to take
pride and rooting for the team that

isn't favored to win

well test seem to indicate it's all
about fairness you see humans don't like

unfair systems

natural talent for example is unfair
you're either born with it or you're not

what a game that's decided purely on
effort gives everyone an equal shot

psychologists and LOL goldschmied set up
an experiment to test the power of the

underdog effect they presented their
subjects with a classic underdog

scenario to sports teams in b4 which
team a was the favorite to win most

people chose to root for Team be the
underdog then the scientists made things

a bit more complicated

they told students that the players on
Team a had lower salaries than the ones

on Team B team's payroll was 35 million
dollars and team B's was a hundred

million dollars this maybe still the
underdog based on the odds but they were

getting paid three times more money and
lo and behold this time

two-thirds of the test subjects now
supported to may the underdog based on

money in short when two kinds of
underdogs went head-to-head the students

came out to favor the one with better
odds lot less money in the end what they

truly valued was grit determination hard
work and a desire to succeed and humans

aren't the only ones this fairness angle
is President other animal species to in

2003's study in the magazine nature
showed that when one monkey was given a

piece of cucumber and another received a
delicious grave the first became

uncooperative because cucumber suck
scientifically proven look even cats

don't like cucumbers and then again in
2008 a test showed that dogs would

refuse to offer a Paul if they saw
another dog given treats for doing the

exact same task the conclusion of all
these studies is that a sense of

fairness is ingrained in all of us at a
fundamental level and it shows that when

the average American roots for the
underdog in a sports game or a route 40

min instinct in pokemon go

it's because they identify with being an
underdog they want to see them win and

the world to be shown as fair when the
underdog wins it shows that he or she

can overcome the odds and do it to
actually really interesting because you

see a similar thing on YouTube where
everyone gets excited to see a small

channel start to blow off but once it
becomes too big it suddenly becomes the

favorite to win that people begin to
read

against there's also one more
personality trait the team instinct had

more than any of the others the
perceiving type P P is the last letter

in the personality acronym the counter
to which is jay for judging or judging

doesn't mean judgmental but rather
needing to have a strict strategy and

plan before diving into an activity

these are the people who need schedules
strategies plans of attack in this case

team mystic has that went on lockdown
with valor close behind

they're both highly structured teams but
instinct is the one that fights against

it

receivers are viewed as spontaneous and
flexible and it makes a lot of sense for

the philosophy behind team instinct
instinct is purely built on the idea

that you should trust pokemon to be
themselves and do their thing rather

than force them into being something
that they're not are evolving as soon as

possible it's about sitting back and
letting the strengths of your Pokemon

work for you

basically all you team in stinkers are
just a lot less uptight and the rest of

us it was also interesting since when I
examine the data based on age as players

got older there are fewer and fewer
instinct members and more and more valor

and mystic members is also coincided
with more j personality types and when

you think about it makes sense because
as you become older life becomes more

regimented less carefree and requires
things like schedules and plans there's

a lot less room to just go with the flow
like team instinct believes in so there

you have it

one simple in-game decision governed by
multiple psychological principles that

make you and I who we are

everything from the bandwagon effect to
the center stage principle to the

world's natural preferences for colors
to the subconscious things that dictate

our priorities and personalities

it's pretty incredible stuff now
remember for all of this we're talking

about statistics doesn't mean that every
single member of team mysticism into it

or that if you're an extrovert you're on
team valor but it does help explain why

there's such a huge majority for one
team versus another because the

psychology of the game itself the colors
of the team the personality of gamers

all lend themselves to everything about
team mystic and in a month from now when

no one is on any team below no it's
because niantic broke the game and that

one is a whole lot easier to explain but
hey that's just a theory a game theory

thanks for watching now if you excuse me
I need to go to a theory that won't

be a two-parter you're welcome