My post was too long so I had to post here: https://pastes.io/07p5nd9dxc
Edit: first correction to the paste, our trans community is represented far above the general population. Around 11% of our community is trans, while in the world only 1% of people are. I also only gave absolute numbers for some reason in the paste so here’s the percentage points: 10% trans women, 1% trans men, 7.7% nonbinary.
we should probably do this either quarterly, or twice a year. people seem to enjoy knowing the demographics. Also, we need to find a survey service that isn’t shit.
My demographics post from a few years ago was hosted on strawpoll, and that site definitely shouldn’t be used. Though, perhaps the next time around that we do a demographics survey, we should include a write-in for ideology. If I remember the results, a large portion of Lemmygrad users back then were ML.
I’m using framaforms next time, it’s open source (although framaforms is the version hosted by the provider, open source != privacy) and allows up to 1000 survey responses, which hopefully we won’t get to yet.
Down the line we might look at hosting yakforms (the self-hosted framaforms) on ProleWiki as it’s interesting to us to host surveys once in a while, and there there are no limits to the responses or anything. Only downside is the question types are severely limited, you have most of the basic ones but no interesting more specific formats.
I am really into the whole surveying/statistics field. Is there anywhere dedicated to helping out with that for the future ones? Specially since after the 30th we’ll have a whole new influx of redditors.
I’ll keep you in mind for the next survey!