Fansplaining Shipping Survey

[forestofglory]

Recently the hosts of the podcast Fansplanining ran a surrey about shipping. I'm totally fascinated by the survey at its results.

Here is the episode (with transcript for those who prefer that) where they go over the results.

There's cool Data Visualization. And an article on the top-line results form shippers who responed and one on the technical aspects of the Methodology.

Its really interesting to see what people said! What do you think about the results? Do they reflect your experiences?

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Generally speaking I'd say yes, it does reflect what I'd perceived. There's definitely a lot of information there to sort through -- thanks for the pointer!

[used_songs]

Thank you for posting these links. I took the survey and wondered at the time if I'd ever run across the results.

[allekha]

I had problems with how some of the questions were formulated, and from the way the hosts reacted to some of the survey outcomes (e.g. surprise that lots of people have too many ships to list), I don't think they have had a similar fandom experience to me or a lot of other people I know in fandom, which may have contributed. I also don't agree with some of their conclusions and speculation.

I was surprised at just how high the percentage of people saying they weren't straight was, though. I know previous surveys of this kind have gotten a lot of not-straight respondents before, but I wasn't expecting the number to be quite that high when I clicked on the tab.

[meridian_rose]

Thanks, I participated in the survey, I'll go check out the data now :)

[tinny]

Oh! I definitely did not expect the answers to the sexuality question. Everything else was pretty much as I suspected.

[reachingforinfinity]

Is the list of ships supposed to be 100% comprehensive? Because I listed many ships (Doctor Who being one example) that aren't in there at all.

[fabrisse]

Thank you for introducing me to this podcast. I haven't gotten to the survey and results yet (distractions, distractions with the other episodes), but I'm looking forward to it.