I thought it’d be interesting/fun to make a demographic survey of II. Completely anonymous, of course. Possibly still creepy. Because I’m interested.

Do you think we should do it?

Edit: I did make one. It is here.

Go nuts, guys. And don’t worry. Your anonymity is safe with me. No-one can see the results except for me, and I’m not logging IP addresses.

In list format for your convenience.

age (categories, with numbers 14 through 19 listed separately, because I think that’s our highest concentration)
gender (including other)
what country are we in (US, AUS, GB, NZ, SA, and others)
sexuality (multiple options can be selected: homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, asexual, undecided, transexual, other) (This one feels a bit intrusive, but it’s anonymous)
how many times a week/month/day you log on to the forums (how addicted are we?)
do you write, read, spork, mock or all of the above?
do we trope (yes, no, I might if not for….)
education level (from primary school through to post grad degree)
relationship status (married, single, in a relationship)
what genres you read

I feel so intrusive.

My gosh, I am SO sorry! I thought better of that list for both gender and sexuality once I posted it and thought I edited it! Having a conversation with you of all people, too. I feel very embarrassed and terrible. I cannot emphasise enough how sorry I am. You must think I am a cold and terrible person.

the list I meant to put in, in the order that I thought of them, reads:

Sexuality:

Heterosexual
Homosexual
Bisexual/bicurious
Asexual
Undecided/unsure
Don’t want to say
Other (please specify)

Gender:
Male
Female
Ambiguous
Transsexual
Other (please specify) – just in case, because I have no idea.

and you can check multiple options in each.

That sounds more like it. : ) I’m not as upset as I probably sounded, but it is one of those issues that gets my hackles up.

Alas, “are you a troper” makes equally little sense to me. I guess at least I know enough to answer ‘no’ to that one.

Relax, homeslice. You’re cool.

“gender is fluid, and I shall drink of it”

Ew.

Not the idea behind it, just the metaphor.

Mmmm, I like the idea of a survey too. Surveys are fun. There’s a flood of surveys at my school at the moment too.

Surveys are fantastic! They’re always so interesting and informative, especially on the faceless internet. Plus, I love trivia, so bits of random info like this really fascinate me. I’m all in!

Here it is!

Because I have nothing better to do with my time than this.

You might think that, btu I’m willing to bet there’ll be some surprises.

I did it!

I am curious about the results, though.

Well, that was fun. :D Can’t wait to see the results!

Whoops. I meant to fix that.

I took it. I didn't know what to put for frequency of visit on Impish because while I'm visiting multiple times a day right now, I've gone with long periods of not visiting at all. So I split the difference with a couple times a week.

But yeah, there probably could've been a currently in high school, currently in uni. Fortunately, I'm graduate from both :)

@Taku yikes, they might want to work on that new acronym because that's getting so long it will be too unwieldy to use.

Oh, my bad. I must have read the questions too fast.

I have taken it! I’m glad there was the ability to choose multiple options, I needed that for a few questions.

I will once we get more than 23 people :)

Just did it.
I think I broke it, though.

Oh hey, another homeschooler. :D There seem to be a lot of us around. Maybe one day we can band together and fight the Australians.

/irrelevance

FIGHT EM indeed. And it must say something about my personality when I cock a snook at them because LOTR wasn't filmed here rather than because the All Blacks won some game with a ball. Rugby, who cares?

Okay. But please include Discworld as a religeon, because my devotion to those books is stalkerish and religious.

Don’t forget the koalas.

And also koalas will rip appendages off you like there’s no tomorrow. And then eat your face.

Bilbies and numbats, as the only Aussie animals that DON’T try to kill you, should be more respected just for this reason. Because I fully suspect that if they were provoked too much, they too would become things to be greatly feared.

@Steph: Ah yes, my young Padawan.
Great and unexpected anger from lifelong supression comes.

WHY DO KIWIS CALL AUSTRALIA ‘AUSSIE’? IT REALLY ANNOYS ME.

Sorry, BlueMask, I know it’s just linguistic habit and the desire to annoy Australians.

Rats.

we’ll win out through sheer wit and superior good looks.

THE AUSSIES counter with AUSTRALIAN BEER*!

IT’S SUPER EFFECTIVE!

*Carlton Draught, Victoria Bitter, XXXX, etc. Not Foster’s.

More people! Answer this survey!

Don’t forget about boomerangs!

Why is there not an “I openly like Inheritance and twilight and I feel no shame :P” option?
I like to read, but I feel the proper way to represent my feelings is something along the lines of “I love stories”.
I’m not really sure what falls into which genre, so I’m skipping that.
...yeah, I’m an outlier I think.

OKAY RESULTS ARE IN GOSH STOP NAGGING ME :D

32 people/monkeys with typewriters responded to the survey.

GENDER:

Female: 16
Male: 15
Ambiguous: 1
Transgender: 1

AGE:

There are three Imps for each of the ages of 14, 16, 17, and 23, while there are only two for ages 15, 18 and 24. Only one Imp for each age of 13, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30+. And there are 8 of us who are 19.

And I forgot to put a ‘13’ category in, so one person skipped that question. Heh. Whoops.

As a whole, we check II at least several times a week, with 40% of us checking multiple times a day.

In terms of sexuality, nearly 80% of us are heterosexual, 3 of us are bisexual or bicurious (bad me for not separating those two. Oops), 3 are asexual, 2 of us are undecided, 3 of us didn’t want to say, one of us is apparently underage and therefore not in possession of a sexual identity, and and one of us is pansexual.

Surprisingly, nobody checked homosexual, so I don’t know whether it was clumsy wording of mine or something else.

As for country— 20 of the 32 people who answered the survey are American, with 3 people each from Canada and Australia, and 2 from Britain, South Africa, and New Zealand. Also somebody wanted to let me know that they’re in California, so I guess that counts as another land if you’re talking about Hollywood…

In terms of education, I structured that question very badly, so I’ll just say that one of us dropped out of highschool, 3 of us have a Certificate or Diploma, and 12 of us have an undergraduate degree (or are completing it).

Now, as for what we’re doing on II…

94% of us are writers
97% of us are readers
19% of us spork, while 63% of us read those sporks
50% of us just like to mock the popular targets
2 of us are rewriting these targets
and 16% of us like Eragon or Twilight but feel a vague sense of shame about it.

favourite genres to read:

(ignore the grey area. The other results are:
Poetry – 16%
Non-fiction – 20%
Terrible writing for fun – 35%)

When it comes to tvtropes, 31% of us don’t visit or contribute, 35% of us sometimes do, 2 of us frequently do, 22% of us binge on it, and 2 of us have a loathing of it that goes beyond all definition and avoid it like the plague.

And in relationship statuses, 80% of us are single, 2 of us are married, 4 of us are in a relationship, 1 of us has no idea, and nobody who did the survey has kids.

I was going to crosstab some stuff, but since I’d have to do that by hand because I don’t have a pro account, in the interests of anonymity I’m going to skip that one.

And there are the results.

fixed, and oh well, never mind :)

I thought there were more Australians on this site for some reason…

Well, not everyone has completed the survey. I can tell you that there is few more Aussies that probably hasn’t taken the survey yet.

I think I was the “drop out.” Technically I did withdraw from the public highschool, but at the time I don’t think “homeschooled” was an option either.

This was pretty cool. Thanks for taking the time to put the survey together and share the results. Most fascinating . . . mua ha ha!

Yes, some of the results were really interesting. So, 19 year old’s are the majority, hmm? And there is at least one transsexual.
We are a motley bunch, aren’t we?

?

Oh. Ok.

Wait, what are the favorite genres?

I still can’t see that picture…

Oh, and this was a cool survey.

high fantasy and low fantasy were in there.

Has anyone else noticed that TAKU’S ENTIRE LIFE is kind of designed to screw up surveys?

No, I meant, in the results. I voted fantasy!