Fountain pen community survey + Lamy aion giveaway!

[RustyDarkMatter]

SURVEY RESULTS + GIVEAWAY

First of all, I want to say thank you for the 1,326 individuals who responded to my survey despite the spelling, continuity, and other errors in the questions. I had so much fun combing through this data. Some of the things I found out were very interesting and surprising and some of it I sort of had an idea of already and the data re-confirmed it. I’m hoping this data will help me refine my question making and make next year’s survey better!
I also want to apologize about the timeline of this survey. I had planned on leaving the survey open for 1-2 weeks to ensure that there was as much participation as possible, however due to the numerous comments about how screwed up some of the questions were as well as numerous spelling mistakes I closed the survey after only 4 days out of embarrassment. I also promised that I would release the results after “a week or so” but that obviously didn’t happen. Apparently sifting through ~1,300 responses to 35 questions where many of them had unique responses is a lot of work. I apologize to all and hopefully next year I can get a better timeline worked out. Thank you for your patience.

I wanted to give the results here but it is too much information, so you can watch my YouTube video and/or go to the linked google site where I am going to go into details of the question such as Graphical charts, why I asked it, the problems with the question as well as go into some extra details about the data….to include extra data that I extrapolated from combining question results! If you are wondering why I’m not writing it all on this post, it is because all of my results are written on a 40-page word document, all of which is included on the webpage.

Page: https://sites.google.com/view/rustyd...er/survey-2017

Youtube video: https://youtu.be/4RRu88Jd-3o

GIVEAWAY: I wanted to say thank you to everybody who participated in this survey but I was not sure which pen to give away. Then I saw the announcement recently from the Goulet pen company saying that the Lamy Aion’s delivery to the US was delayed for another couple week. The Lamy Aion is my favorite pen that I use every day so I decided to give away a Lamy Aion to one lucky person, the details of this give away will be mentioned in my YouTube video @ 48:45.

[SIR]

I wanted to give the results here but it is too much information, so you can watch my YouTube video and/or go to the linked google site where I am going to go into details of the question such as Graphical charts, why I asked it, the problems with the question as well as go into some extra details about the data….to include extra data that I extrapolated from combining question results! If you are wondering why I’m not writing it all on this post, it is because all of my results are written on a 40-page word document, all of which is included on the webpage.

Really?! - Click bait, much?
Just saying... how about giving a summarised version of the results here, at least?

[RustyDarkMatter]

I wanted to give the results here but it is too much information, so you can watch my YouTube video and/or go to the linked google site where I am going to go into details of the question such as Graphical charts, why I asked it, the problems with the question as well as go into some extra details about the data….to include extra data that I extrapolated from combining question results! If you are wondering why I’m not writing it all on this post, it is because all of my results are written on a 40-page word document, all of which is included on the webpage.

Really?! - Click bait, much?
Just saying... how about giving a summarised version of the results here, at least?

I tried to but even an abbreviated version was 7 pages.

[SIR]

even an abbreviated version was 7 pages.

What are the headline results?

[RustyDarkMatter]

even an abbreviated version was 7 pages.

What are the headline results?

What are somethings you would like to know? There were 34 questions in the survey. I'll list afew results if you let me know what you are interested in

[TSherbs]

Any of them, dude

[FredRydr]

Rusty,

My academic background involved social science statistical analysis and writing programs, so I appreciate your task and desire to find reliable answers. Your webpage really hits the mark. Congratulations!

I have an observation. Since the data comes wholly from voluntary participants through web-based social media (as opposed to sampling randomly-selected persons from both web and non-web sources), the results have to be considered in that light. Had you taken a sample from randomly-selected attendees at major pen shows, for example, the results would be fun to compare to your web-based data. Of course, that would have required a lot more work on the ground. I agree with you that your age grouping missed a fruitful area of inquiry (I say this as a 65-year-old), and I suspect a much larger portion of older members of your target population simply refused to participate compared to younger fountain pen enthusiasts. That is why random sampling is more reliable and accurate than voluntary sampling. Still, it's fun to see the correlations you came up with.

Fred

[urushi4u]

What are the headline results?

People who did the survey like fountain pens.

[RustyDarkMatter]

Rusty,

My academic background involved social science statistical analysis and writing programs...

That is very interesting that your background. I would love to involve you next year to either get the questions answered better and or have a better way to get more useful information out of it.

[SIR]

[RustyDarkMatter]

SECTION 1: Demographics

Question 1.1: Current age:

<18 – 19%
19-23 – 18%
24-30 – 22%
31-40 – 18%
41-49 – 12%
51+ (21%)

Question 1.2: Gender

Male: 65%
Female: 34%
Other: 1%

Question 1.3: Left or right handed:

Right: 90%
Left: 10%

[wingwiper]

SECTION 1: Demographics

Question 1.1: Current age:

<18 – 19%
19-23 – 18%
24-30 – 22%
31-40 – 18%
41-49 – 12%
51+ (21%)

Question 1.2: Gender

Male: 65%
Female: 34%
Other: 1%

Question 1.3: Left or right handed:

Right: 90%
Left: 10%

wow.....lots of us old geezers here; shweet

[RustyDarkMatter]

wow.....lots of us old geezers here; shweet

Yes next time I’m going to beak up the 51+ category to get more specific ages. But still in my breakdown I also went into which social media sites had what demographics. I found it surprising to find that the site that had the oldest average age was Facebook! If you want to know more I broke down every social media site to some demographics....another price of information is reddit had the youngest audience.

[stub]

Really?! - Click bait, much?
Just saying... how about giving a summarised version of the results here, at least?

Rough crowd.

Hot giveaway. Hats off for that.

[catbert]

Geographically ineligible for the Aion giveaway, but that's OK.

Thanks for doing this survey, Rusty. Hope you'll keep at it.

[RustyDarkMatter]

Geographically ineligible for the Aion giveaway, but that's OK.

Thanks for doing this survey, Rusty. Hope you'll keep at it.

I'm sorry for the geographic limitations. I will keep working to make this survey better for next year, thank you for the support.

[archaturism]

Well I'm really glad my general demographics is well represented