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Community Demographics

Jul 12, 2008 16:52

Below is our semi-annual community demographics survey. It covers a gamut of questions - some of which are predictable, others which aren't. I encourage you to take a few minutes and fill it out. I find this sort of thing fascinating, and I know I'm not alone in that regard ( Read more... )

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Comments 266

halogencycle July 13 2008, 01:24:54 UTC

And where are the religious categories for Zoroastrians? Are you trying to get Ahura Mazda mad at you?

And of course, where's Pastafarian? I just read that Pastafarian is one of the top ten religious designations on Facebook now.

keito_f July 13 2008, 01:36:42 UTC

If it makes you happy, I am currently eating pasta.

halogencycle July 13 2008, 01:39:46 UTC

I'm thinking that eating the deity is not the way to get into noodly heaven.

keito_f July 13 2008, 01:43:43 UTC

Christians seem to like it.

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demerick July 13 2008, 01:27:37 UTC

I'm going to recreate the survey with every possible option imaginable available. I'll see you in infinity :P.

starfish327 July 13 2008, 01:30:28 UTC

you know i actually had to do that for my master's survey.

i had to sit there and think of...every...conceivable...family arrangement. it made me want to cry...

demerick July 13 2008, 01:39:15 UTC

wow...I would cry too

Hey...I'm supposed to be working right now...hehe

starfish327 July 13 2008, 01:43:16 UTC

actually though for my project it worked out well, because of what i'm attempting to look for. it still made my head hurt because i had to make decisions like are pets family? because if they are i have to put them on the survey...

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nikolche July 13 2008, 01:31:01 UTC

[grins] Only I could have problems filling out a survey with every inclusive option known to man. Ethnicity is technically hispanic/latino, but [a] no one would ever know by looking at me and [b] I'm the worst latin boy ever. I tend to say my physical sex is FtM (that is, I have female anatomy with male secondary sex characteristics and confuse the hell out of doctors). I don't ID as transgender because I'm neither changing my gender nor attempting to leave the binary (I like my box, I simply wish other people would recognise I was in it), but at the same time I knew what you were going for. I'm an atheist agnostic Jew who considers both California (specifically, not the entire US) and the UK home. My political beliefs are usually too liberal for liberals, but I'm also not exactly an anarchist. I was a step away from joining the Marines when my best friends got kicked out under DADT (I was raised in Marine programmes, turned down an acceptance to the Naval Academy, and only had to sign on the dotted line when I backed out in ( ... )

demerick July 13 2008, 01:34:39 UTC

ROFL...where would surveys be without someone to screw with the data.

starfish327 July 13 2008, 01:35:35 UTC

it would be a very boring world if there wasn't data for us grad students to clean.

nikolche July 13 2008, 01:36:20 UTC

I screw with most people's data, it's rather entertaining

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keito_f July 13 2008, 01:43:28 UTC

And my sexual orientation is not up there! I am Differently Straight."

tko_ak July 13 2008, 01:46:51 UTC

Isn't Other up there?

keito_f July 13 2008, 01:51:09 UTC

But other makes me feel excluded. :P

(and I was joking about being differently straight.)

novus_semita July 13 2008, 02:13:06 UTC

Yes but people have to feel like a ~*~special snow flake~*~

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keito_f July 13 2008, 02:05:40 UTC

I'd kind of be interested in the future in knowing when people first came out (if they were not heterosexual).

tko_ak July 13 2008, 05:11:03 UTC

It's an interesting thought, and there has been a poll on it years ago (I think).