Thought experiment: How to figure out the players we have

The brutal truth! But no matter how often somebody says something like this on the forums, the player base just does NOT get it. Denial is a bliss and the rose colored glasses never fall off. It's a shame.

On a side note: The most hard working staff member at MA seems to be an expert of behaviorist psychology.
Food for thought: http://radoff.com/blog/2011/08/09/gamification-behaviorism-bullshit/ and http://www.bogost.com/blog/gamification_is_bullshit.shtml