For Science!

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I think this is only crack_van's 2nd off-topic post in the past six years, and so a word of explanation: Last month the neuroscientists who developed this survey got in touch with me through the comm with the idea of distributing a survey to fandom at large. They wanted to share the final data with fandom and other researchers in a fandom-controlled space, and asked if they could do so here. This research will be groundbreaking in their field, and in all of our many discussions over the past month+ they have been unfailingly respectful of fandom's traditions and concerns, and so I was happy to agree.

There's a FAQ explaining their project HERE, and feedback and discussion is invited over on ogi_ogas's journal.

Please repost far and wide!


ETA: Please feel free to continue to comment here as desired. I've posted some additional info and my own thoughts here.

ETA 2: I WAS WRONG.

Comments

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

The survey is down now. Here's hoping it doesn't go back up, because seriously, the title of the so-called 'book'? The fact that they apparently changed some of the questions halfway through?

So that would be groundbreaking in the field of what precisely? Invalidate Any And All Data Instantly 101 maybe?

Wish I'd known the first two things before being too curious for my own good and taking the damn thing this morning.

My own feeling? crack_van shouldn't have advertised this, let alone endorsed it.

[fail-machine.livejournal.com]

and edited version of the survey is still available, they just took down the link. http://fanficsurvey.appspot.com/

If you have problems accessing any of the questions, I have pdfs of each page as they stood a few hours ago.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info and the offer, I appreciate it. I think I'll just chalk this one up to experience, and be a tad more wary in future.

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

Seeing the amazing about of feedback we've received over the past 24 hours, and realizing we can't possibly process and discuss it all in a timely fashion, we've taken the survey offline while we read through all the comments and criticisms in the hope of revamping and improving the survey. It's certainly our hope and intention that the survey not only serve our own research needs, but offer something useful to fandom. With all the comments people have so generously offered, we're optimistic that if we listen carefully we can improve the survey. We still invite further comments, but please understand we're going to first try to dig through all the comments we've already received!

http://ogi-ogas.livejournal.com/3767.html