Obviously it's hard to have a statistically perfect poll anyway, and the ones I used definitely aren't them. I found the data to be clear enough to go with it anyway, but obviously, ymmv. I find it at least as convincing as the "common knowledge", which there is no data at all to back up.
I did want to note that there *has* been a methodologically-rigorous survey done: if you'll follow my ETA, I was given the results of a survey done several years ago for a doctoral diss - I don't know every detail of the methodology, but she did privacy-guaranteed e-mail surveys with people from two dozen different communities within fandom. At the very least it passed academic review.
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Obviously it's hard to have a statistically perfect poll anyway, and the ones I used definitely aren't them. I found the data to be clear enough to go with it anyway, but obviously, ymmv. I find it at least as convincing as the "common knowledge", which there is no data at all to back up.
I did want to note that there *has* been a methodologically-rigorous survey done: if you'll follow my ETA, I was given the results of a survey done several years ago for a doctoral diss - I don't know every detail of the methodology, but she did privacy-guaranteed e-mail surveys with people from two dozen different communities within fandom. At the very least it passed academic review.