Patreon user survey! FOR ACTUAL SCIENCE

I unfortunately don't do well with long essay questions like the ones being asked. I'm glad to have left them behind after college. It would take me several hours to come up with anything worth writing and I don't have time/energy for that.

Alas, I don't qualify either.

Another one who couldn't answer the survey -- I thought I might qualify because I've been to some readings and book festivals, but honestly they weren't recent enough and I don't remember them strongly enough to participate. Thanks for the opportunity anyhow?

69 likes. nice

I started taking the survey, but I could only draw from a local "convention" (really a meet-up) where there weren't any products for sale and no sponsors, so the part after the essay about what I experienced and learned I couldn't really answer... =(

"Did you meet anyone famous?" Yeah. I met Jeph jacques and I bought one of his books.

I thought it was a well-made survey. I'm not a social sciences guy (software and machine learning, here), but the quality-control questions, as well as the personality/outlook cross tabs, should make up some very interesting results. I hope this helps. (I also had to include that I unintentionally embarrassed Patrick Stewart at a con...)

Now I need to remember that I actually entered a legitimate draw for an Amazon card so that in the off chance that I do win, I don't discard it as "junk email."

I have never attended a "narrative fantasy event", so I answered "No" to the first question. Then it wanted me to tell all about the event I'd never attended..? I was expecting something like "Thanks but you're not useful for this", not "We have totally ignored your first answer". So I bailed.

Can't connect to the server - did we crash it?

took it and was mostly just felt uncomfortable about checking strongly disagree with many of their question choices. I don't think I feel that strongly about most philosophical issues, and when a statement is prosed in strong emotions, my gut says I strongly disagree with your assumed question

It does sound interesting, but the privacy assurances are pretty weak. And they misspelled the name of their university in the instructions. Not a good sign.

That got a little deep at the end.

I just hope that what I entered will help better the understanding of the human mind and psyche.

Felt like it needed a lot of caveats since the specific 'narrative event' that I was answering questions about had vastly different answers than other ones. Heck, just picking two or three conventions (BlizzCon, GenCon, WonderCon e.g.) I'd have given very different answers, much less actual different event types.

Would love to see the crosstab of people who deliberately misfilled the validity questions with the other answers. I’d also like to know at which point people, if at all, stopped answering those questions correctly.

I enjoyed it, but I hated when a question was *click this answer specifically* because don't tell me what to do. As I clicked what the didn't ask me to. The contrarian in me.

Interesting... for me, the most significant cons I've been to were WorldCon 2000 in Baltimore, and WorldCon 2002, in San Jose, both of which I was at as part of the staff of Strange Horizons ( http://strangehorizons.com/ ). I'd never been to a WorldCon previous to the 2000 one, and I learned a ton about the actual business of producing interesting prose fiction and non-fiction, and getting it in front of interested readers. Also made friends that I've kept to this day.

Odd questions, frankly. I wonder very much what they're looking to find out.

It's legit, and kinda interesting. The only uninteresting part (to me) was the deep-thought existential stuff. I go to cons to have fun, not for a life-changing experience.

kind of a flawed survey, if you answer no you still get the same questions that only applied to a yes answer. I exited.

Not bad, but the fact that the survey continues even if you say you haven't been to a con or "narrative fiction event" is a bad call. Your data on questions past that are going to be skewed.

It was neat thinking back to the last event...I wouldn't necessarily say it was life-altering but it was cool nonetheless

Don't think I've been to an event listed there so guess I don't qualify

It seems legit, if a little weird... I don't feel like I can do it justice. Graduate thesis type survey- they're looking for vivid recall of the last narrative fiction event you attended. My memory is crap, so I don't want to waste their time.

Seems to only apply to people who have attended one or more "events". [edit] I haven't been to any "events" - large, small, local, formal or informal. Unless you count a two sentence conversation with a friend. It seems strange to assume that people who read web comics would attend comic related events.

I am really confused by a definition of "narrative fantasy" that appears to include graphic novels but exclude text novels.

If you are here in Patreon, the link is the box above the post.

Some people are having trouble finding the link so I have edited it into the post as well :)

I've seen similar messages before... This looks like someone hacked the patreon account and is posting a suspicious link. I'd be wary of clicking the survey.

Sure. I would need a link to it tho.

Where's the Survey?

Is this a regular update, or did a hacker get into the system?

Link?

Is there a link to the survey?