Data collection device, game device, data collection system, data collection method, and computer-readable recording medium

A data collection method, comprising:

• a step (a) of, on a game device, accepting an operation performed by a player via a graphical interface;
• a step (b) of, on the game device, executing a game program that, in response to the operation accepted in the step (a), associates a topic with one or all of two or more prepared descriptions;
• a step (c) of, on a data collection device, collecting a game result from the game device;
• a step (d) of, on the data collection device, applying statistical processing to the game result collected in step (c);
• a step (e) of providing a game to each of game devices from the data collection device, the game devices each being used by a different one of a plurality of players,
• wherein in the statistical processing executed in the step (d), a reliability degree that indicates, in the form of a numeric value, how reliably a description describes the topic is calculated based on the game result,
• wherein in the step (e), to game devices that are each used by a different one of two or more players, a game that allows each of the two or more players to select a description to be associated with the same topic from among a plurality of prepared descriptions by assigning ranks to the plurality of prepared descriptions is provided,
• wherein in the step (d), a reliability degree of the description is calculated by comparing one or more descriptions selected by the two or more players and the ranks assigned thereto, and
• wherein the display screen of each game device is configured to display the status of the ranks changed by another player in silhouette.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having recorded therein a program including an instruction that causes a computer to execute:

• a step (a) of collecting game results from game devices that are each used by a different one of a plurality of players when the game devices of the plurality of players have executed a game that allows each player to associate a topic with a prepared description by performing an operation via a graphical interface;
• a step (b) of applying statistical processing to the game results collected in the step (a);
• and
• a step (c) of providing the game to each of the game devices of the plurality of players,
• wherein in the statistical processing executed in the step (b), a reliability degree that indicates, in the form of a numeric value, how reliably the description describes the topic is calculated based on the game results,
• wherein in the step (c), to game devices that are each used by a different one of two or more players, a game that allows each of the two or more players to select a description to be associated with the same topic from among a plurality of prepared descriptions by assigning ranks to the plurality of prepared descriptions is provided,
• wherein in the step (b), a reliability degree of the description is calculated by comparing one or more descriptions selected by the two or more players and the ranks assigned thereto, and
• wherein the display screen of each game device is configured to display the status of the ranks changed by another player in silhouette.