Category Archives: Reader Survey

There was a comment below about who the readers are of this weblog. One thing that is clear is that people who comment are not necessarily representative.

Limiting the sample to those who have American (USA) nationality:

Limited the sample to S…

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There are currently 104 people who have responded in various degrees to the reader survey. If I limit to South Asians only, the modal reader is an Indian national, though not overwhelmingly so: In terms of religious identity, Hindus are modal, but those who are not religiously identified are very common (I selected this latter … Continue reading “Results of 2018 Reader Survey”

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There are now over 400 responses to the survey. Here is a link to the responses in CSV format. If you import this into R, an extra parameter in regards to encoding may be necessary:
responses=read.csv(“responses.csv”,sep=”\t”,header=TRUE,fileEncoding =…

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I can’t send you to a direct link, so here are the results. Some of the results need to be crunched by me unfortunately. But here’s a sample (yes, I didn’t do much more than the basic R density plot).

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It has been brought to my attention that Discover Magazine has a reader survey as well. Here’s the first page:
Welcome!
All responses to this survey will remain completely confidential and will be studied and interpreted only in combination with …

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We’re well north of 500 for the reader survey. Thanks to everyone who participated. I’ll let it run until Saturday morning and then close it. I figure if you aren’t reading the blog at least once a week right now you’re not a co…

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A typical female GNXP reader?
We’ve moved north of 400 responses on the reader survey. I think the goal of an N of 500 is totally viable. In the past I’ve actually pushed it well north of 600 by leaving the survey open for a while. I know…

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My sample size for the reader survey is now ~200. I’m aiming for ~500. If you are a regular reader of this weblog, please consider filling out the survey. The software is telling me that the average reader is taking about ~10 minutes. All questio…

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Since the reader survey is topping out in response, I though I’d report some of the results. Since I’ve been doing these surveys my readership has exhibited a few patterns, and I was curious as to any changes since moving to Discover. Not too much has shifted. Instead of 15% female, as was the case […]

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About six months ago I did a survey of the readership of my two Gene Expression blogs (before moving to Discover). The N was around 600. You can view the raw frequency results here. One of the issues which I was curious about: did the disciplinary background of readers have any major correlates with responses? […]

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Razib Khan