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! (
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AgeAverage:
23.1*Standard deviation: 6.1*Minimum age: 13
Median age: 18
Maximum age: 49
Improbable ages (≤2, ≥100) are excluded. (
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Country of residenceThe 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%).
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Country of originThe 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%).
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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(
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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 OSFormat 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
Male 256
Female 14
Snail 1
Androgynous 1
Bigender 1
Genderfluid 1
Lobster 1
Uncountable 11
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
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