So this is brilliant and data and yay, etc. I'm particularly interested in the way the shortness of internet generations is skewing data--ten year old data is basically useless at this point, even if many of the same people are involved, because the broader grouping has just moved on. (I also cheer you on with the getting-this-shit-published thing, because, citable data yay!).

Tangential note, and little to do with the original question: has anybody counted how many het fangirls/fen are queer? I ask because I hang out in mainly het-oriented circles (everybody started out in X-Files, nearly all as Mulder/Scully shippers, though some are primarily in other fandoms now), and, holy hell, there's a lot of queer on my flist. It's brilliant, and feeds into my (not-so-)faint separatist leanings. I think I might have to do a pollish thing on this subject myself.