Holy fuck, what is this bullshit?

[neadods]

So I started to take a survey about Sherlock Holmes fans. By someone who claims to be in touch with the culture and who claims to be doing this under the aegis of a school for academic reasons

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[badgermirlacca]

....aaaaaaaaaaaaand that's what happens when an academic designs a survey for the purpose of providing data to support their thesis.

[honorh]

Yeah. Probably someone's Master's thesis, and their advisor really dropped the ball.

I love Sherlock Holmes. I've read through the ACD canon several times (except a few stories that really irritate me). Sometimes they make me think deeply, but basically? I read them because I enjoy them. That's all.

[neadods]

They're literary popcorn. Doyle was right to consider them merely light entertainment.

[neadods]

Yeah. I suppose we as fans should be grateful that this is about fee-fees and not Women R Oppressed And That's Why They Write Teh Buttsexxx a la Bacon.

In retrospect I become even more fond of Jenkins, who simply cataloged observed behaviors and didn't try to psychoanalyze our deeper inner selves.

[azriona]

Oh. My. God.

I am reminded of a class Bill took in college, that had something to do with politics, theoretically, but mostly featured them all sitting in a circle in the middle of the room holding hands and meditating. I don't think that professor quite had the same idea about what constituted a politics class as Bill did.

I suspect the same is true for whoever wrote that survey. Except with Sherlock Holmes, instead of politics.)

Where did you find this survey?

[neadods]

*sigh* It was heavily featured at Scintillation of Scions because the couple behind it is a fannish powerhouse. I kind of feel bad about ranting about it. But what else is LJ for? :)

[azriona]

Cat memes. Obviously, cat memes. :)

[thanatos_kalos]

Just based on what you've said, if this were a student research design in one of my classes, I'd fail it.