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

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

they have been unfailingly respectful of fandom's traditions and concerns

How is that possible when they're unaware of the most basic facts about fandom and fic? If they don't know that fanfic writers often write novel-length fics and care about wordcount, just to mention one issue that was raised in the comments to the survey's post, I have to doubt that they're all that savvy about our traditions.

Wordcount is included in 99% of all headers and they missed that fact; the traditions aren't listed anywhere on tablets of stone, so how come they're all clued up on them?

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I'm stunned and a little sad that some people in fandom are endorsing these people. They seem to neither respect or know us.

I'd kind of like the latter state of affairs to stay that way.