[announce] 7th annual "What are we like?" Questionnaire

Ru's 7th annual "What are we like?" Questionnaire

http://www.geocities.com/ruigarashi/Surveys/fans/questionnaire.html

Over the few years that I've been a fan, there has been many
an occasion where a question popped up about some aspect of our
interest in anime in the rec.arts.anime.* newsgroups.  Many of 
those times it would have been nice if we had numbers to work 
from.  After a while, one gets really curious about just how 
many of us do different things.  So between the late summers of 
1997 and 2001, I had been posting a semi-annual questionnaire 
in the rec.arts.anime news group hierarchy, mostly for the sake 
of satisfying curiousity, and for some statistics we can throw 
around in some of our discussions.  The statistics have indeed 
proven to be useful on occasion.  Sometimes, the changes over 
the past few surveys are also interesting (sometimes more 
relevant than results from just one survey).  

In 2001, I had to cut back to an annual survey because of time 
constraints, but also because the trends I was most interested 
in have pretty much slowed down.  I also cut the duration from 
4 weeks to 3 weeks.

2002 was when I made the questionnaire available as a web form,
in addition to my standard text posting to the rec.arts.anime.*
newsgroups.  As you can imagine, the widgets on a web form
are a lot easier to fill out, and from my end, there are fewer
user mistakes to deal with and I get more compact returns.
I also finally found a place to put previous results, at

http://www.geocities.com/ruigarashi/Surveys/fans/results.html

This is the 7th annual running of the survey.  The questionnaire 
was originally concerned more or less with fans who used news 
groups, as a lot of input over the years came from newsgroup 
users.  So, lacking sufficient anime web experience, it is a 
fair bit short on the web perspective, and certainly needs work 
to get more web-centric questions.  Feel free to send me 
suggestions (either by e-mail or in the comment box at the
end of the questionnaire).

Notes on filling out the questionnaire
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Due to the predominant use of the web form last year, this year
I won't be posting the text-only form at all.

Some of the questions may infringe on what you would consider
personal information.  Feel free to leave any unanswered (even
a totally blank questionnaire has meaning).  

If you have participated in this survey in the past, by all means 
please do so again this time; I'm tracking changes in results 
(or lack of changes) from past surveys and it helps to have 
returning participants, and I keep adding new questions.  

At the end of the questionnaire I ask for some sort of name.  It 
doesn't have to be your real one, but if you add a question in 
the comment area I've made available, it would be a good idea to 
put your e-mail address in the input box or in your comment.

Oh ya, this thing is REALLY LONG (over 160 questions, over 1300 lines,
over 90 kbytes).  It's really a list of questions I wished I had
numbers for, and I've had a long time to build it up.  I thought
I'd just warn you ahead of time.

If you have any questions about the questionnaire, feel free to 
e-mail me or post to rec.arts.anime.misc.  Here we go...

http://www.geocities.com/ruigarashi/Surveys/fans/questionnaire.html

ru

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Maintainer of the "Welcome to REC.ARTS.ANIME.MUSIC" FAQ
   ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/arts/anime/music
   http://www.geocities.com/ruigarashi/FAQS/raa_music/
and the Annual rec.arts.anime.* "What are we like?" survey
   http://www.geocities.com/ruigarashi/Surveys/fans/