In my last post I asked you to take a brief survey. Many of you did, in fact, within about 13 hours I had nearly 150 responses. However, the survey host, Surveymonkey, only provides the first 100 responses. This is not really a big deal, and given that the survey itself was a bit rough-and-ready, it got the job done. 

I asked 10 questions in total on four different topics. The topics themselves were arbitrary. They were simply accessible constructs which most people have an opinion about. 

The values on the y-axis are raw numbers, but given that n=100, they also correspond largely to percentages (a few people, over a few questions, did not answer). 

1) How old are you?

2) What's your favourite colour?

 3) What's your favourite kind of snack?

4) Do you have any aversions / phobias?

5) What is your preferred alcohol

A few people critiqued me for not including the option for multiple aversions/phobias, and for not including a teetotaller option in the alcohol question. However, this shouldn't really make a difference. The key was in the question that accompanied each topic:

What proportion of the population also [reflects your opinion]?

I am going to have to go through all the data and manually enter it into some analytics software, and so I will withold from concluding whether the effect I was looking for was found. However, I encourage you to consider your preferences, and your own answers to the follow up questions, and to try and hazard a guess as to what I was hoping to find. 

More to follow...