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Skyrunner

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Re: Bay12 Census, via Google Forms
« Reply #75 on: February 23, 2014, 10:43:07 am »

Bay12 Census results

Survey started: Feb 18, 2014 at 22:03:30 in UTC +9:00
Survey ended: Feb 23, 2014 at 15:31:05 in UTC +9:00
Time elapsed: 4 days, 17 hours, 27 minutes, 45 seconds

Number of responses: 286
Number of samples: 284 (2 discarded)

Population size: 4431 (the number of Bay12 members who were active in the past 30 days, excluding spambots)
Worst-case error rate: ±5.63% at 95% confidence


Birthday problem:

Yay! (raw data)


Age
Average: 23.1*
Standard deviation: 6.1*
Minimum age: 13
Median age: 18
Maximum age: 49


Improbable ages (≤2, ≥100) are excluded. (raw data)


Country of residence
The overwhelming majority of Bay12 users lived in the United States. 122 people (42.7%) responded US.
The second place Bay12 users tend to live in is Canada (18 people, 6.3%), followed by Australia (15, 5.2%).
The map was made using Google Geomaps API.

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Country of origin
The overwhelming majority of Bay12 users were born in the United States. 119 people (41.8%) responded US.
The second place Bay12 users tend to live in is Canada (18 people, 6.3%), followed by Germany (16, 5.6%).
The map was made using Google Geomaps API.

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Have you ever played a game made by ToadyOne?


Have you ever played a game made by ToadyOne, excluding Dwarf Fortress?



Boards frequented

Spoiler: By percent (click to show/hide)
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Have you accepted Tarn Adams as your lord and savoir?



What degree of education do you plan on completing?



What languages are you fluent in?

Number of replies: 277
Average number of languages fluent in: 1.65
Scale of Y axis: log base 10
Everybody knows English! The second-most known language is German, followed by French.


Preferred OS

Format of labels: number of choices, % of total


Are you clinically diagnosed with a mental disorder?

Error rate: ±4.6% at 95% confidence


How fast is your internet?

Average speed: 22.16 Mbps
Standard deviation: 39.23
Maximum value: 320 Mbps


How would you rate your political inclination?

0 - Conservative
10 - Liberal
Average: 6.58

This question is not expected to yield useful results.


What is your employment status?



What gender do you identify as?

Confidence: ±3.5% at 95% confidence

Spoiler: raw (click to show/hide)


Cats or dogs?



How much time do you spend on Bay12 every day?

Average hours spent daily: 3.1
Total hours spent on Bay12 daily: 13647.48 (±6.1% at 95% confidence)


Hours spent making this: 67 hours, because screw excel
Current RAM usage: 15.0 / 16.0 GB

In conclusion, the average Bay12 user:
  • is 23 years old
  • lives and was born in the United States
  • has played a game by ToadyOne
  • may or may not have played a game that is not Dwarf Fortress but was made by ToadyOne
  • frequents the DF-themed boards or General Discussion
  • accepts Tarn Adams as his lord and savoir
  • plans on completing a postgraduate degree
  • is fluent in English
  • uses Windows
  • does not have a clinically diagnosed mental disorder
  • has a 22.16 Mbps connection
  • is a student
  • is male
  • prefers cats
  • and spends, on average, 3.1 hours on Bay12 Forums

Link to raw data in spreadsheet, anonymized
« Last Edit: February 23, 2014, 11:31:51 am by Skyrunner »
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #76 on: February 23, 2014, 10:54:51 am »

I'M OLDER THAN AVERAGE T_T

And of course my sample is one of the rejected ones.
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #77 on: February 23, 2014, 10:56:52 am »

Thanks, Skyrunner. This is very interesting.
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #78 on: February 23, 2014, 10:58:08 am »

Okay, that was fun. I expected more national diversity somehow, though. But whatevs, I'm not very surprised, in general.
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #79 on: February 23, 2014, 10:58:17 am »

Oh hey I'm on it after all. Why's the sheet start "French" for my language slot, Sky?

E: Oh I see, the highlight is off by one cell.

Also, "Interdimensional". Hai Xant.
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #80 on: February 23, 2014, 11:00:06 am »

Apparently two people are fluent in the language of mathematics. What?
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #81 on: February 23, 2014, 11:01:24 am »

Jesus, it's a sausage fest around here. Also, holy crap, you guys have fast internet connections!

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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #82 on: February 23, 2014, 11:01:50 am »

Apparently two people are fluent in the language of mathematics. What?

two out of 284

that's less than one percent for six percent of the entirety of bay12

lol@people claiming bay12 is full of SCIENCEists the lot of you couldn't even prove 2 is a number (hell, it's not like i could either)

Jesus, it's a sausage fest around here.

innit?
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #83 on: February 23, 2014, 11:03:20 am »

Wow, the gender graph is more lopsided than I was expecting.
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #84 on: February 23, 2014, 11:05:34 am »

I expect it's because most people answered according to what genitalia they have.
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #85 on: February 23, 2014, 11:06:13 am »

Portuguese appears twice in the language chart, it seems.
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #86 on: February 23, 2014, 11:07:54 am »

Jesus, it's a sausage fest around here.
I ain't complaining.

* kaijyuu waggles eyebrows.
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #87 on: February 23, 2014, 11:09:20 am »

Jesus, it's a sausage fest around here.

I mean I had a notion but this is madness!
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #88 on: February 23, 2014, 11:10:01 am »

Apparently, the most common answer to "Have you ever played a game published by ToadyOne?" is "United States"

We aso have >250% of people.
« Last Edit: February 23, 2014, 11:12:09 am by Darvi »
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Re: Bay12 Census: Results out!
« Reply #89 on: February 23, 2014, 11:15:06 am »

I'm personally confused why some of you are so surprised with the gender skewing. The bay 12 fourms are practically generic nerd subculture: The board. And that's a mostly male demographic.

And I mostly say this since DF kind of appeals to a wide enough set that it's going to draw people in that remember old CRPGs, or tabletop games rather than newer ones which by now both have a pretty even split in the fanbases.

Then again I say this AS someone who would likely at least partially fit into what I described (Though to be fair, I have maybe far too many interests I feel strongly about), but really it's not all that surprising to see such a disproportionate gender ratio.
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