2020 Survey Results / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page 2020 Survey Results.

Sirslash47 21 May 2021 20:30

Thank you for doing the survey and making the graphs. (Also sad Belgian noises ;-;)

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Riemann 21 May 2021 20:46

Thank you to everyone who responded this year, and a big thanks to CelesteKara does not match any existing user name, Cerastes, Hexick, Naepic, OCuin, Uncle Nicolini, and of course taylor itkin does not match any existing user name, who did all the real work!¹ I just posted the page :)

This year, we tried something new and used the Auto Result Tabulatorinator 5000, which creates the tables and graphs automatically. You may notice some changes in demographics and statistics from last year - this is a byproduct of switching over to the new method. I think I've ironed out all the bugs, but please do let me know if I've missed anything!

I hope everyone's staying safe and I hope you all continue contributing, responding, reading, and otherwise increasing our statistical sample size for more analyses to come! >:D

Footnotes

1. All of them did the real work not just Taylor

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Dysadron 22 May 2021 10:21

Thanks to all those who put this together! There's some quite interesting data here :)

cooldude971 22 May 2021 23:36

Minor quibble about charts: the report uses pie charts (or variants) for every category of data. This works well for questions where you divide the community into non-overlapping categories (such as the “do you have an account” question) but this doesn’t work as well for questions where the responses aren’t mutually exclusive. For example, many people use multiple forms of SCP social media meaning the categories are not mutually exclusive and that many pie charts in the survey have totals close to 200% (taken at face value, this means that for every 100 community members, we have close to 200 community members-a rather silly proposition). For these types of questions, I think a bar chart would be a much more meaningful way to display the data.

This minor issue notwithstanding, you’ve all done an incredible job with the survey and the numbers are fascinating to look at. Thanks for all of your work on this!

Edit: I recently posted a chart on Reddit detailing how members of the community discovered the SCP Foundation over time using the data included in this year's survey.

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Riemann 24 May 2021 14:55

Yeah, I admit that the donut plot here for the non mutually exclusive options is not the… most intuitive graphing option. It does an ok job of showing the popularity of various activities, but as you said, it does imply that those activities are mutually exclusive and it messes up the percentages.

That being said, I went with it because by the time I got all the data processing automated I was burnt out and ready to be done! There were all sorts of unexpected issues like regex not processing parenthesis in really strange ways that I didn't expect. And getting the labels to automatically show up and not overlap on some of the donut plots was shockingly difficult!

For next year I'll try and build out a couple more graphing options, including bar graphs. This year was mostly focused on making sure that the data could be interpreted and plotted by the new program. Next year, data analysis!

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ObserverSeptember 23 May 2021 01:06

So despite our reputation among…certain elements of the internet as being dominated by minority groups, we're still 72% male and only about 10% trans. That's a larger proportion than the rest of the Internet, but it's not even close to how our demographics are portrayed.

LGBT and/or female voices are often more visible due to the site strongly emphasizing inclusiveness, but they do not appear to be a majority in sheer numerical terms (although sexuality is not mentioned here so the former is debatable).

Also, almost half of you kiddos are younger than 9/11? That's wild.

stormbreath 23 May 2021 02:01

I think one thing that's worth noting that these statistics are for the community at large, rather than just authors — I imagine that they would weight differently if you polled authors (and likely artists, although I'm not as familiar with the SCP art community demographics), who have a significantly higher influence on the community than readers and the rest of the community.

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la kanro 05 Dec 2021 03:19

wait why are "America" and "United States of America" different options