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[Skyrunner]

Bay12 Census results
Survey started: Feb 18, 2014 at 22:03:30 in UTC +9:00
Survey ended: Feb 23, 2014 at 15:31:05 in UTC +9:00
Time elapsed: 4 days, 17 hours, 27 minutes, 45 seconds

Number of responses: 286
Number of samples: 284 (2 discarded)

Population size: 4431 (the number of Bay12 members who were active in the past 30 days, excluding spambots)
Worst-case error rate: ±5.63% at 95% confidence


Birthday problem:

Yay! (raw data)

Age
Average: 23.1*
Standard deviation: 6.1*
Minimum age: 13
Median age: 18
Maximum age: 49


Improbable ages (≤2, ≥100) are excluded. (raw data)

Country of residence
The overwhelming majority of Bay12 users lived in the United States. 122 people (42.7%) responded US.
The second place Bay12 users tend to live in is Canada (18 people, 6.3%), followed by Australia (15, 5.2%).
The map was made using Google Geomaps API.

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Country of origin
The overwhelming majority of Bay12 users were born in the United States. 119 people (41.8%) responded US.
The second place Bay12 users tend to live in is Canada (18 people, 6.3%), followed by Germany (16, 5.6%).
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Have you ever played a game made by ToadyOne?


Have you ever played a game made by ToadyOne, excluding Dwarf Fortress?


Boards frequented

Spoiler: By percent (click to show/hide)

(raw data)

Have you accepted Tarn Adams as your lord and savoir?


What degree of education do you plan on completing?


What languages are you fluent in?

Number of replies: 277
Average number of languages fluent in: 1.65
Scale of Y axis: log base 10
Everybody knows English! The second-most known language is German, followed by French.

Preferred OS

Format of labels: number of choices, % of total

Are you clinically diagnosed with a mental disorder?

Error rate: ±4.6% at 95% confidence

How fast is your internet?

Average speed: 22.16 Mbps
Standard deviation: 39.23
Maximum value: 320 Mbps

How would you rate your political inclination?

0 - Conservative
10 - Liberal
Average: 6.58

This question is not expected to yield useful results.

What is your employment status?


What gender do you identify as?

Confidence: ±3.5% at 95% confidence

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Male   256
Female   14
Snail   1
Androgynous   1
Bigender   1
Genderfluid   1
Lobster   1
Uncountable   11

Cats or dogs?


How much time do you spend on Bay12 every day?

Average hours spent daily: 3.1
Total hours spent on Bay12 daily: 13647.48 (±6.1% at 95% confidence)

Hours spent making this: 67 hours, because screw excel
Current RAM usage: 15.0 / 16.0 GB
In conclusion, the average Bay12 user:

• is 23 years old
• lives and was born in the United States
• has played a game by ToadyOne
• may or may not have played a game that is not Dwarf Fortress but was made by ToadyOne
• frequents the DF-themed boards or General Discussion
• accepts Tarn Adams as his lord and savoir
• plans on completing a postgraduate degree
• is fluent in English
• uses Windows
• does not have a clinically diagnosed mental disorder
• has a 22.16 Mbps connection
• is a student
• is male
• prefers cats
• and spends, on average, 3.1 hours on Bay12 Forums

Link to raw data in spreadsheet, anonymized

[Darvi]

I'M OLDER THAN AVERAGE T_T

And of course my sample is one of the rejected ones.

[miauw62]

Thanks, Skyrunner. This is very interesting.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Okay, that was fun. I expected more national diversity somehow, though. But whatevs, I'm not very surprised, in general.

[Darvi]

Oh hey I'm on it after all. Why's the sheet start "French" for my language slot, Sky?

E: Oh I see, the highlight is off by one cell.

Also, "Interdimensional". Hai Xant.

[IcyTea31]

Apparently two people are fluent in the language of mathematics. What?

[Sappho]

Jesus, it's a sausage fest around here. Also, holy crap, you guys have fast internet connections!

[LordSlowpoke]

Apparently two people are fluent in the language of mathematics. What?

two out of 284

that's less than one percent for six percent of the entirety of bay12

lol@people claiming bay12 is full of SCIENCEists the lot of you couldn't even prove 2 is a number (hell, it's not like i could either)

Jesus, it's a sausage fest around here.

innit?

[Reverie]

Wow, the gender graph is more lopsided than I was expecting.

[Darvi]

I expect it's because most people answered according to what genitalia they have.

[Teneb]

Portuguese appears twice in the language chart, it seems.

[kaijyuu]

Jesus, it's a sausage fest around here.

I ain't complaining.

* kaijyuu waggles eyebrows.

[mainiac]

Jesus, it's a sausage fest around here.

I mean I had a notion but this is madness!

[Darvi]

Apparently, the most common answer to "Have you ever played a game published by ToadyOne?" is "United States"

We aso have >250% of people.

[Gunner-Chan]

I'm personally confused why some of you are so surprised with the gender skewing. The bay 12 fourms are practically generic nerd subculture: The board. And that's a mostly male demographic.

And I mostly say this since DF kind of appeals to a wide enough set that it's going to draw people in that remember old CRPGs, or tabletop games rather than newer ones which by now both have a pretty even split in the fanbases.

Then again I say this AS someone who would likely at least partially fit into what I described (Though to be fair, I have maybe far too many interests I feel strongly about), but really it's not all that surprising to see such a disproportionate gender ratio.