Some exceedingly unscientific stats on AH languages and genders.

[AwkwardlySet]

M-NNE (Non-native-English)

Phew!

 

[Actingup]

It might be possible to design a confidential Lit reader survey to collect these and other stats, for the sake of authors understanding the readership and what people are looking for in their reading.

 

[Bramblethorn]

It might be possible to design a confidential Lit reader survey to collect these and other stats, for the sake of authors understanding the readership and what people are looking for in their reading.

The difficulty is that most readers won't respond, which makes it hard to gauge how representative the sample is of the whole.

 

[Cagivagurl]

A survey would be useless.
Everybody is anonymous. Most have several levels of protection...
They could answer however they anted and it would be impossible to tell...
If somebody fills in their bio claiming a different gender. There is nothing to stop them saying the same in a survey.

Cagivagurl

 

[Actingup]

A survey would be useless.
Everybody is anonymous. Most have several levels of protection...
They could answer however they anted and it would be impossible to tell...
If somebody fills in their bio claiming a different gender. There is nothing to stop them saying the same in a survey.

Cagivagurl

True - it's just that there is less incentive to lie. If you claim a different gender in your online profile, it's going to be for a reason related to how people view you or relate to you. If it's anonymous, all you're doing is distorting the overall distribution, which brings no personal advantage.

I'm not going to die in a ditch over this - I'm normally of the view that opt-in polls are worthless. But I'm curious to know whether there is a way to get better data than we have.