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[coalescent]

[Poll #980885]

Note: "An award" does not mean that you are indiscriminate and will read something just because it won A. N. Award. If you occasionally read books because they win the Whitbread, but couldn't care less about the Nebula winner, tick "yes" for "I have occasionally read a book because it was nominated for or won an award." Similarly, if you've been debating about picking up a book and then an award tips you over the edge, that counts as a yes too. Use your own judgement for what counts as "occasionally" or "often".

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[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

(I mean as a sample - let's face it - your readership is largely SFF readers- that's 5% of the reading public, so 20% of 5%, that's pretty trivial.)

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

(And hard core readership of SF, I'm sure an even smaller number ...)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

As I noted to Su, I've posted the link to a couple of poll communities. So far the people not on my friendslist are voting in pretty much the same proportions as the people who are on my friendslist.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

No they aren't unless only 5 people answered the often question - see my comment below. (And then that would belie your "lots of people are voting not on my friends list")

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

You're slicing the data the wrong way. Taking the "occasionally" question, about a quarter of the votes so far are from people not on my friendslist; of those, 22% voted false. So a bit lower, but within the margin of error.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

You were the one pimping often as a significant number.

22%? so five people voted yes (three of which I would still count as usual suspects) and what 2? (that's 28%) people voted no? one? (that's 17%) (I do not see how you get to 22.) This is the "lots" you were talking about?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

No, a quarter of voters being not on my friendlist is what I was referring to as a lot. Which, given that about 100 people have voted, I'm happy to stand behind.

However, since Andrew's produced a survey from the general population, I'll go and stand behind that, instead.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

You mean he has a poll of library users, again, not the general population.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

(and if we count the people who have three or four people in common with your friends list, the random poll people plummets to 8% who have occasionally read.)