#survey results december 2023

[multigenderswag]

Multigender Survey Results Dec 2023: Language (part 1)

Number of pronouns 

Participants were asked “How many sets of pronouns do you use?” (single selection) and participants whose pronouns differed depending on slightly were asked to answer what they used most often. The options provided were: 

No pronouns: 2 (0.3%)

1 set of pronouns: 69 (9.3%) (nice)

2 sets of pronouns: 197 (26.5%)

3 sets of pronouns: 131 (17.6%)

4 sets of pronouns: 58 (7.8%)

5+ sets of pronouns: 98 (13.2%)

All pronouns: 72 (9.7%)

It changes regularly: 78 (10.5%)

Questioning: 38 (5.1%)

Number of pronouns vs number of genders

Participants’ answers to “How many sets of pronouns do you use?” and “How many genders do you identify as?” were compared and sorted into the following categories:

Number of pronouns is the same as the number of genders (for example, two genders and us two sets of pronouns): 109 (14.7%)

Number of pronouns is less than the number of genders (for example, all genders and one set of pronouns): 47 (6.3%)

Number of pronouns is more than the number of genders (for example, three genders and 5+ sets of pronouns): 56 (7.5%)

Number of pronouns and/or number of genders were non-numerical answers (for example, “I don’t know/I choose not to count them” for number of genders and all pronouns): 531 (71.5%)

Multiple pronouns

Participants were asked “If you use multiple pronouns, do you prefer that people use all of your pronouns interchangeably?” (single selection). The options provided were: 

Yes, and it is misgendering if they don’t: 81 (10.9% of participants overall, 11.8% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

Yes, but I don’t mind if they stick to one set: 366 (49.3% of participants overall, 53.2% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

No, I prefer that people stick to one set: 47 (6.3% of participants overall, 6.8% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

I don’t have a preference: 126 (17.0% of participants overall, 18.3% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

I don’t use multiple pronouns: 55 (7.4%)

There was also an “other” option in which participants could write in their answer. Written in answers were divided into the following categories:

It depends on context: 19 (2.6% of participants overall, 2.8% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

It depends on the pronouns (for example, using he/him and she/her interchangeably is preferred, using just he/him is okay, using just she/her is considered misgendering): 18 (2.4% of participants overall, 2.6% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

Preferences change frequently: 13 (1.7% of participants overall, 1.9% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

Yes, and I don’t like it if people stick to one set, but I don’t consider it misgendering: 11 (1.5% of participants overall, 1.6% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

Other: 7 (0.9% of participants overall, 1.0% of participants who use multiple pronouns)

Most common pronouns

Participants were asked “What pronouns do you use?” (multiple selection). For participants who only used a given set of pronouns sometimes, they were asked to select those pronouns for this question. The options provided were: 

He/him: 565 (76.0%)

She/her: 380 (51.1%)

They/them: 422 (56.8%)

It/its: 275 (37.0%)

Xe/xem: 199 (16.0%)

Fae/faer: 66 (8.9%)

Ey/em: 66 (8.9%)

Ze/hir: 52 (7.0%)

Ze/zir: 59 (7.9%)

Ae/aer: 53 (7.1%)

E/em: 53 (7.1%)

Ce/cer: 22 (3.0%)

No pronouns: 69 (9.3%)

Any/all pronouns: 135 (18.2%)

Any/all neos: 124 (16.6%)

Additionally, there was an “other” option in which participants could write in pronouns. With the given and written in pronouns combined, a total of 171 unique subject pronouns were used. 

Honorifics

Participants were asked “Which of these honorifics would you want to be referred to with?” (multiple selection). The options provided were: 

Ind.: 40 (5.4%)

Lady: 14 (1.9%)

M.: 151 (20.3%)

Masteress: 33 (4.4%)

Miss/Ms./Mrs.: 165 (22.2%)

Mistrum: 47 (6.3%)

Mr.: 339 (45.6%)

Mx.: 108 (14.5%)

Sir: 328 (44.1%)

Sirlady: 62 (8.3%)

No honorific: 311 (41.9%)

#survey results december 2023 #multigender #shoutout to no pronouns users. nice

[probablyasocialecologist]

In the context of what we’ve learned from our investigations into opt-in polls, we took particular notice of a recent online opt-in survey that had a startling finding about Holocaust denial among young Americans. The survey, fielded in December 2023, reported that 20% of U.S. adults under 30 agree with the statement, “The Holocaust is a myth.” This alarming finding received widespread attention from the news media and on social networks. From a survey science perspective, the finding deserved a closer look. It raised both of the red flags in the research literature about bogus respondents: It focused on a rare attitude (Holocaust denial), and it involved a subgroup frequently “infiltrated” by bogus respondents (young adults). Other questions asked in that December opt-in poll also pointed to a need for scrutiny. In the same poll, about half of adults under 30 (48%) expressed opposition to legal abortion. This result is dramatically at odds with rigorous polling from multiple survey organizations that consistently finds the rate of opposition among young adults to be much lower. In an April 2023 Pew Research Center survey, for instance, 26% of U.S. adults under 30 said abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. This was 13 points lower than the share among older Americans (39%). Our estimate for young adults was similar to ones from other, more recent probability-based surveys, such as an AP-NORC survey from June 2023 (27%) and a KFF survey from November 2023 (28%). We attempted to replicate the opt-in poll’s findings in our own survey, fielded in mid-January 2024 on Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel. Unlike the December opt-in survey, our survey panel is recruited by mail – rather than online – using probability-based sampling. And in fact, our findings were quite different. Rather than 20%, we found that 3% of adults under 30 agree with the statement “The Holocaust is a myth.” (This percentage is the same for every other age group as well.) Had this been the original result, it is unlikely that it would have generated the same kind of media attention on one of the most sensitive possible topics. Likewise, our survey found substantial differences from the December poll on support for legal abortion. In the opt-in survey, roughly half of young adults (48%) said abortion should always be illegal or should only be legal in special circumstances, such as when the life of the mother is in danger. In our survey, 23% said so. These differences in estimates for young adults are what we would expect to see – based on past studies – if there were a large number of bogus respondents in the opt-in poll claiming to be under the age of 30. These respondents likely were not answering the questions based on their true opinions. The takeaway from our recent survey experiment is not that Holocaust denial in the United States is nonexistent or that younger and older Americans all have the same opinions when it comes to antisemitism or the Middle East. For example, our survey experiment found that young adults in the U.S. are less likely than older ones to say the state of Israel has the right to exist. This is broadly consistent with other rigorous polling showing that young people are somewhat less supportive of Israel – and more supportive of Palestinians – than older Americans. Rather, the takeaway is that reporting on complex and sensitive matters such as these requires the use of rigorous survey methods to avoid inadvertently misleading the public, particularly when studying the attitudes of young people.

#holocaust #online survey #polling #Psephology

[mysticstronomy]

WHAT IS THE FARTHEST THING WE CAN SEE IN SPACE??

Blog#348

Saturday, November 11th, 2023

Welcome back,

Current observations suggest that the Universe is about 13.7 billion years old. We know that light takes time to travel, so that if we observe an object that is 13 billion light years away, then that light has been traveling towards us for 13 billion years. Essentially, we are seeing that object as it appeared 13 billion years ago.

With every year that passes, our newest technology enables us to see further and further back.

The image used for this stop on our journey is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF). The UDF is one of the deepest views of the visible universe to date; certainly it was the deepest when it was originally created in in 2003-2004. There are approximately 10,000 galaxies in this view, which is a sort of "core sample" of a very narrow patch of sky near the constellation Fornax. The smallest, reddest galaxies in the image, of which there are about 100, are among the most distant known objects!

The UDF looks back approximately 13 billion years (approximately between 400 and 800 million years after the Big Bang). Galaxies that existed in that time period would be very young and very different in structure and appearance than the grand spirals we see nearby today.

In December of 2012, astronomers announced a Hubble Space Telescope discovery of seven primitive galaxies located over 13 billion light years away from us.

The results are from survey of the same patch of sky known as the Ultra Deep Field (UDF). This survey, called UDF12, used Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 to peer deeper into space in near-infrared light than any previous Hubble observation.

Why infrared? Because the Universe is expanding; therefore the farther back we look, the faster objects are moving away from us, which shifts their light towards the red. Redshift means that light that is emitted as ultraviolet or visible light is shifted more and more to redder wavelengths.

The extreme distance of these newly discovered galaxies means their light has been traveling to us for more than 13 billion years, from a time when the Universe was less than 4% of its current age.

Their discovery, which you can read more about in the NASA feature is exciting because it might give us an idea of how abundant galaxies were close to the era when astronomers think galaxies first started forming. (Phil Plait has a good column about this discovery too.)

As of this writing it seems that one of the galaxies in this recent Hubble discovery may be a distance record breaker - it was observed 380 million years after the Big Bang, with a redshift of 11.9. This means the light from this galaxy (pictured below) left 13.3+ billion light years ago.

Just under a month ago, the current candidate was this object: a young galaxy called MACS0647-JD. It's only a tiny fraction of the size of our Milky Way - and was observed at 420 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was 3 percent of its present age of 13.7 billion years. To spot this galaxy, astronomers used the powerful gravity from the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0647+7015 to magnify the light from the distant galaxy; this effect is called gravitational lensing

Originally published on imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov

COMING UP!!

(Wednesday, November 15th, 2023)

"WHERE DID WATER COME FROM ON EARTH??"

#astronomy #outer space #alternate universe #astrophysics #universe #spacecraft #white universe #space #parallel universe #astrophotography

[bunnygirlwhore]

This is a survey I made for a college paper, said paper ended up being due on December 3rd of 2023, a week sooner than I thought it was due. The paper is now done, but anyone who wishes to take the survey may still do so. It's a survey about being queer on social media, and once college is done kicking my ass for the term, I'll post results. Hopefully editing this post works as intended. And again, thank you to the 36 original participants that were part of my paper.

https://forms.gle/XGr5aP8L8cVjWKpT6

[bsd-bibliophile]

BSD-Bibliophile Japanese Literature & Bungou Stray Dogs Survey - 2023

I am interested in knowing if BSD fans are reading the literary works by the Japanese authors who inspired the series. This is a short survey about Japanese authors and Bungou Stray Dogs. Everyone is welcome to take part in this survey, and feel free to share the link outside of Tumblr: https://forms.gle/8dMBvgge5stCdVR5A

The survey will be open from November 15 - December 15.

Please fill out this survey even if you have not read any of the real authors’ works or have not watched/read Bungou Stray Dogs. Your responses are just as valuable and greatly appreciated.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to send me a private message through Tumblr or write them in the comment section of the survey.

If you are interested in viewing the results from past surveys, here are the results from 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. You can also compare the results from the past two years on the BSD-Bibliophile Online Library Survey Results page.

Thank you to all those who participate!

Survey Results are posted here.

BSD-Bibliophile Online Library:

Recently Published Translations

Novels, Short Stories and Poems

Articles and Essays

List of Books in English

Quotes and Facts Collection

Fun Facts

Author Connections

Photos and Handwriting Samples Library

Video Library

Bungou Stray Dogs Resources:

Official Websites and Twitter Accounts

Manga, Light Novels, BSD Wan! and more!

Translators and Translation Projects:

Maplopo

Sign up for their Reading Circle here.

Interested in learning Japanese from the translator? Join Maplopo Schoolhouse here.

Buy their translations on Amazon.

Japan Reads (Shelley Marshall)

Buy their translations on Amazon.

M Skeels

List of published translations

Free practice translations

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Anne’s Side Blog:

My side blog where I post anything and everything that is not included on my main blog. The Ask Box is currently open.

Bungou Stray Dogs Discord

Join us, be a part of over a thousand members in one of the most active and friendly communities here on Discord!

#bsd-bibliophile #japanese literature #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd #survey

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Hi everyone,

First, I’d like to thank everyone for sharing their pictures of pets! I really appreciated it. ♥️

I’ve noticed that I can’t posted any interesting articles lately. I found out that is very interesting!

It talks of something called ‘money dysmorphia’, Here’s an excerpt:

…While surveying 1,006 US adults above the age of 18 from 18 to 26 December 2023, researchers found that these feelings were found predominantly among younger adults, specifically 43 per cent of Gen Z and 41 per cent of millennials.

This new phenomenon was defined as “money dysmorphia,” which describes the distorted view of one’s finances, and how it could contribute to poor decision-making as a result. Those who experienced this issue were more likely to feel financially behind their peers, with 82 per cent reportedly noting that they struggled with financial insecurity.

The link will be below in case anyone wants to read more:

#news #Gen z #millennials #finance #money dysphoria #article #The Independent #feel free to share/reblog

[dcmkkaishinevents]

2024 Interest Check results are here!

The interest check was held from December 31, 2023 to January 13, 2024. Text results below! Sorry, no fancy graphics this year!

2024 interest check outcome: 1. There were 54 responses, down from last year. 2. 94.5% of survey takers are interested in the KSSS, and 94.5% are interested in KSBB. 3. Events in order of interest for 2024 are:

#1 KSBB24

#2 KSSS24

#3 One-prompt Challenge

#4 Ship Week

#5 Character Week

#6 Flashworks Month

#7 WIP

#8 Opposites

#9 Telephone

4. The next event will be a One-prompt Challenge. Information about the event should be available soon. 5. Ship Week, Character Week, and Flashworks Month are all possibilities.

Looking forward to seeing you in this year’s events!

#interest check #dcmkkaishinevents #kaishin #dcmk

[azuremist]

Alterhumanity and Autism: Follow-Up Survey (Results)

This survey ran from August 14th to December 16th of 2023, was hosted on Google Docs, and had 336 respondents.

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"Please answer the questions provided based off of your personal experience with alterhumanity."

Q: "How do you identify?"

A:

Psychologically-based: 68.2%

Spiritually-based: 48.5%

N/A or other: 22.9%

Q: "Did you realize you were autistic before or after you realized that you were alterhuman?"

A:

I realized that I was autistic BEFORE I realized that I was alterhuman: 59.2%

I realized I was autistic AFTER I realized that I was alterhuman: 40.8%

Q: "Please select which option best suits you, in regards to empathy."

A:

I have low empathy: 33.6%

I have hyperempathy: 40.8%

Other: 25.6%

Q: "If you are LOW empathy, please select which, if any, of the following applies to you."

A:

Fairy / fae kin: 6.8%

Alien kin: 12.3%

Tech kin (robots, AI, etc): 24.7%

Nonhuman: 72.6%

Therian: 54.8%

Fictionkin / mediakin (human character): 34.2%

Fictionkin / mediakin (nonhuman character): 39.7%

Otherhearted, kith, and/or synpath: 28.1%

I am none of these: 8.2%

Q: "If you are NOT low empathy (high empathy or considered a 'standard' level of empathetic), please select which, if any, of the following applies to you."

A:

Fairy / fae kin: 11.7%

Alien kin: 12.6%

Tech kin (robots, AI, etc): 23.4%

Nonhuman: 74.8%

Therian: 57.7%

Fictionkin / mediakin (human character): 38.3%

Fictionkin / mediakin (nonhuman character): 43.7%

Otherhearted, kith, and/or synpath: 30.6%

I am none of these: 3.2%

Q: "If you identify as an animal, please select which applies to your species. (You can select multiple if you identify as multiple animals.)"

A:

Ape (gorilla or monkey): 2.7%

Arachnid / insect (scorpion, butterfly, spider…): 9.7%

Bear: 4.7%

Bird: 23.3%

Cat (domestic or "big" cats like the leopard, lion, jaguar…): 47.9%

Cattle (cow, bull, goat…): 5.4%

Dogs (domestic or "big" dogs like the coyote, wolf, fox…): 54.5%

Aquatic (dolphin, fish, shark…): 11.7%

Marsupials (young are carried in pouch; the opossum, kangaroo, koala…): 4.7%

Mustelidae (weasel, badger, otter…): 7%

Rabbit: 8.2%

Reptile (lizard, snake, crocodile…): 12.8%

Rodent (beaver, hamster, mouse…): 6.6%

Other: 27.2%

Q: "How do you feel about your self-identifiers?"

A:

I feel uncertain or anxious about using my alterhuman labels, and / or am not sure which terms apply to me: 39.6%

I feel comfortable using my alterhuman labels, and I am certain in which one(s) I use: 60.4%

Q: "How do you feel about the number of labels within the alterhuman community, especially in relation to figuring out one's self-identification?"

A:

I feel positively about the number of labels: 89.3%

I feel negatively about the number of labels: 10.7%

#alterhuman survey #otherkin survey #actuallyautistic #autism #actually autistic #alterhuman #otherkin #azure does a thing

[multigenderswag]

Multigender Survey Results Dec 2023: Genders (part 1)

Multigender versus questioning

The first question asked participants to indicate whether they were multigender or were questioning (single selection). 594 participants (80.1%) identified as multigender, while 148 (19.%) were questioning whether they identified as multigender. 

Categories

Participants were asked to select which of the following best described the extent to which they identified as a woman, a girl, and/or female (single selection). The options provided were:

I am fully a woman, a girl, and/or female: 196 (26.4%)

I am partially a woman, a girl, and/or female: 417 (56.1%)

I am not a woman, a girl, or female in any capacity: 130 (17.5%)

613 (82.5%) identified as a woman, a girl, and/or female to some extent, whether fully or partially. 

Participants were also asked to select which of the following best described the extent to which they identified as a man, a boy, and/or male (single selection). The options provided were:

I am fully a man, a boy, and/or male: 297 (40.0%)

I am partially a man, a boy, and/or male: 393 (52.9%)

I am not a man, a boy, or male in any capacity: 53 (7.1%)

690 (92.9%) identified as a man, a boy, and or/male to some extent, whether fully or partially. 

The combination of answers to those two questions were used to sort participants into the following nine categories. 

Fully a man, a boy, and/or male + fully a woman, a girl, and/or female: 151 (20.3%)

Partially a man, a boy, and/or male + fully a woman, a girl, and/or female: 40 (5.4%)

Not at all a man, a boy, or male + fully a woman, a girl, and/or female: 5 (0.7%)

Fully a man, a boy, and/or male + partially a woman, a girl, and/or female: 103 (13.9%)

Partially a man, a boy, and/or male + partially a woman, a girl, and/or female: 288 (38.8%)

Not at all a man, a boy, or male + partially a woman, a girl, and/or female: 26 (3.5%)

Fully a man, a boy, and/or male + not at all a woman, a girl, or female: 43 (5.8%)

Partially a man, a boy, and/or male + not at all a woman, a girl, or female: 65 (8.7%)

Not a man, a boy, and/or male + not at all a woman, a girl, or female: 22 (3.0%)

Number of binary genders (man/boy/male and woman/girl/female) participants fully identified as:

Fully identified as two binary genders: 151 (20.3%)

Fully identified as one binary gender: 191 (25.7%)

Did not fully identify as any binary gender: 401 (54.0%)

Number of binary genders (man/boy/male and woman/girl/female) participants identified as to some extent, whether fully or partially:

Identified as two binary genders to some extent: 582 (78.3%)

Identified as one binary gender to some extent: 139 (18.7%)

Did not identify as any binary gender to any extent: 22 (3.0%)

Labels

Participants were asked “What are the genders you identify with? Select all that apply, whether always or sometimes” (multiple selection). The options provided were: 

Agender: 268 (36.1%)

Butch: 223 (30.0%)

Demigirl: 142 (19.1%)

Demiboy: 174 (23.4%)

Femme: 202 (27.2%)

Genderqueer: 500 (67.3%)

Man/boy/male: 470 (63.3%)

Manwoman/boygirl/male+female: 398 (53.6%)

Masc: 351 (47.2%)

Maverique: 72 (9.7%)

Neutrois: 69 (9.3%) (nice_

Nonbinary: 464 (62.3%)

Woman/girl/female: 399 (53.7%)

Xenogender: 248 (33.4%)

Questioning: 110 (14.8%)

Unlabeled: 129 (17.4%)

Categories vs Labels

In the previous survey, categories were formed based on answers to the question “What are the genders you identify with?” This turns out to have been an inaccurate way to categorize participants, as the categories participants self-identified with often didn’t match the way they would have been categorized based on the genders they identified with. 

Of 196 participants who identified as fully a woman, a girl, and/or female, 166 selected “woman/girl/female” as one of the genders they identified with (84.7%). Of 297 participants who identified as fully a man, a boy, and/or male, 259 selected “man/boy/male” as one of the genders they identified with (87.2%).

Additionally, the previous survey did not include “manwoman/boygirl/male+female” as a gender option, under the assumption that people who identified that way would select both “man/boy/male” and “woman/girl/female.” However, of the 398 participants who selected “manwoman/boygirl/male+female,” 210 selected both “man/boy/male” and “woman/girl/female” (52.8%). 142 participants who selected “manwoman/boygirl/male+female” did not select “woman/girl/female” (35.7%), and 117 participants who selected “manwoman/boygirl/male+female” did not select “man/boy/male” (29.4%).

Abinary Genders

Participants were asked “do you experience abinary gender(s)?” (single selection), with abinary defined as “genders that are completely unrelated to the male/female binary.” The options provided were:

No, I don’t experience any abinary genders: 143 (19.2%)

Yes, I experience one abinary gender: 144 (19.4%)

Yes, I experience multiple abinary genders: 285 (38.4%)

Questioning: 171 (23.0%)

429 participants (75.7%) experienced one or more abinary gender(s). 

Of the 151 participants who identified as fully a man, a boy, and/or male as well as fully a woman, a girl, and/or female, 19 (12.6%) experienced one abinary gender and 62 (41.1%) experienced multiple abinary genders. 81 (53.6%) experienced one or more abinary gender(s) and 49 (32.5%) did not experience any abinary genders. That is to say, for a majority of participants who identified as fully a man/a boy/male and fully a woman/a girl/female, they identified as other gender(s) in addition to those two. 

#survey results december 2023 #whooooo! joy and delight on planet multigender #very glad i did the 'select the extent to which you identify as [gender]' thing that changed the results wildly #multigender

[solradguy]

Still one dlc char to be announced in 2023, when do you think it'll happen?

According to the timestamp on this ask, you sent this like literal hours before the new Developer Backyard dropped and answered your question haha December!

Link to the post: https://www.guiltygear.com/ggst/en/news/post-2013/

Relevant text from the DB:

The next update is coming up in December 2023. In addition to a new character, this update will introduce the second round of new special moves, this time for 2 characters. There's also a small-scale balance update in store, focused on adjustments to the new mechanics Wild Assault and Deflect Shield. This will include the aforementioned changes to input options for some characters' new moves such as Giovanna's Chave as well as fixes for issues.

In the Q&A section they teased the possibility of a future artbook that collects all the works between Xrd to now. Fingers crossed it happens!!

The other Q&A responses said that they would consider putting in a way to toggle things like Jack-O's mask and Sin's eyepatch (?!) like how you can toggle Johnny's beard or between the two Asukas, though they said they can't promise anything. They also said that they would like to hold a character palette contest OR survey some day and that they're looking into refining the input for Deflect Shield

The upcoming qualifier tournaments for Arc World Tour are: FIGHTERS SPIRIT (November 18 to 19) in Korea; Battle Coliseum (November 24 to 26) in Brazil; Ultimate Fighting Arena (November 24 to 26) in France; Frosty Faustings (January 25 to 28) in the USA.

So far they've only done big character announcements at events either in the USA or Japan so I'm not sure they'll announce who's next at any of these. There might be another big event going on that I don't know about though. Guess we'll find out soon!!

They also covered the survey results in this entry, which are always interesting. These results stretch this post a bit so I'm gonna slip them behind a readmore.

Lots of young players!! No wonder I get Dadguy'd on here so much lol

Bridget is also the current most favorite character globally, followed by Sol and then Ramlethal in 3rd:

Regional favorite character poll for just Strive's cast. These votes were limited to just one character and the DB entry suggests they may allow two votes for this part in future polls:

I've posted this one on here before when it was shown at Tokyo Game Show earlier this year, but here's the overall favorite character rankings by region. A.B.A., Elphelt, Slayer, and Dizzy are the highest:

#asks #guilty gear #developers backyard #developer's backyard #long post

[blinkysrewatchparty]

Blinky's Rewatch Party Update!

I already posted about this on a reblog, but here's a post of its own!

Since I was so busy this past week, we now have a new, extended deadline for the survey polls: 11:59pm PST on Sunday, December 2023!

After that, I'll be taking a week to analyze the data and "work out all those snoogs" and then the official starting Blinky's Rewatch Party schedule will be coming out on, drumroll please, December 24!

While that schedule very much relies on the results of the survey, I'm also fairly confident that we'll be starting in the second week of January. Hold onto your sniggle feathers and Nighthawks baseball caps! It's gonna be wild ride!

#starkid #hatchetfield #nerdy prudes #nerdy prudes must die #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday #nightmare time #nightmare time 2 #bliklotep #npmd #blinky's rewatch party #tgwdlm #nmt #nmt 2

[mariacallous]

Post-COVID-19, chronic student absenteeism has arguably become the number one challenge for public K-12 education. If children are not in school, they are not building the skills and knowledge necessary to keep up with their learning standards. And 30% of students nationwide were chronically absent in 2021-22—double the pre-COVID-19 average—with only minor improvements in 2022-23.

Seemingly contradicting the gravity of the chronic absenteeism crisis, a recent U.S. Department of Education survey shows just 15% of school leaders overall are “extremely worried” about this challenge. While the percentage is greater among school leaders of high-poverty schools (25%), it is still just a quarter of this group.

Regardless of how worried school leaders are, absenteeism is not a challenge school leaders can solve on their own. Parents can play a critical role in substantially reducing absenteeism. We wanted to understand the levels of concern, and reasons for those levels, among caretakers of K-12 children. Between December 6, 2023, and February 4, 2024, we used the Understanding America Study panel to ask a nationally representative sample of caretakers of K-12 children across 2,479 households questions about absenteeism from school. The results provide insight into the caretaker perspective and suggest concrete steps that caretakers and educators can pursue to address the challenge.

[sflow-er]

Results & analysis of the Finnish presidential election

By the narrowest margin since the direct popular vote was introduced in 1994, Alexander Stubb (National Coalition Party i.e. the main conservative party) won the presidential race against Pekka Haavisto (Green Party; technically ran as an independent) last night.

The margin was 3.2 percentage points - or less than 99,000 votes.

The first poll conducted after the first round predicted that Stubb would win 59 to 41, while the last poll released before the election was 54 to 46. Haavisto had the momentum and got the majority of votes cast on election day, but it wasn't enough to close the gap from early voting (which Stubb won 52.7 to 47.3).

Stubb's victory was largely decided by voters from urban settlements/townships, as well as rural areas. Towns/smaller cities were quite evenly divided between the candidates, whereas the bigger cities mostly went to Haavisto. Out of the ten largest cities, Stubb only managed to win four.

Map of constituencies & number of voters in each:

Support for Haavisto was particularly strong in Helsinki (where he got 57.7% of the vote), other cities with academic universities, the Swedish-speaking autonomous island region of Åland, and western Lapland (the northernmost part).

Stubb was strongest on the west coast (especially Swedish-speaking Österbotten). He also did well in the other cities in the Helsinki metropolitan area (e.g. Espoo and Vantaa, but also Kauniainen, the city with the highest gross income in Finland). And of course the townships and rural areas already mentioned above.

So what do we know about the reasons people voted the way they did? Well, we can look at a survey conducted last week, asking people who had already chosen their candidate why they wouldn't vote for the other guy:

Top 5 reasons not to vote for Stubb

His values: 51% of respondents

Doesn't bring the nation together: 39%

His views on foreign policy: 36%

Doesn't seem like a good leader: 32%

His political party: 31%

Top 5 reasons not to vote for Haavisto

His values: 45%

His partner [husband]: 41%

His views on foreign policy: 39%

Past political scandals: 36%

His political party: 35%

It's worth noting that both candidates have been known for their liberal values throughout their careers. Stubb represents liberal conservatism, which combines individual liberties with economic "liberties" i.e. minimal government intervention (low taxes and low regulation). Haavisto is a liberal moderate/centrist who represents the fiscal conservative wing of the Green Party; this means he's only slightly left of the centre.

In other words, their values really aren't that far apart, at least in the social/ethical sense! So, the answer likely has more to do with identity politics and the values that the candidates were seen as representing.

The elephant in the room is, of course, Haavisto's homosexuality. Sadly, that is still a dealbreaker for many people in Finland.

In a survey conducted during the first round, about 30% of all respondents said his husband was a reason not to vote for him, and the same was said by a disturbingly large 41% of Stubb voters in the second round. It also came up multiple times in interviews asking voters whose choice in the first round had been knocked out what they made of the candidates in the second round. People said they couldn't imagine two men welcoming guests to the President's Reception on Independence Day (a big televised event) or making state visits to countries where homosexuality wasn't as widely accepted (oh, the irony).

Haavisto & his husband at the reception in December 2023.

As for Stubb, he's always been an outspoken LGBTQ+ ally before. Which was why it was extremely disappointing when his campaign refused requests for comment on that first-round survey, citing his tight schedule. It felt like a pretty calculated move to avoid alienating these conservative voters. To his credit, though, he did condemn the result of the second survey very clearly in a televised debate.

Haavisto's sexuality wasn't the only thing that irked conservative voters, however. There was also the fact that he did civil service instead of military service.

There's been a lot of concern in Finland for a potential Russian attack in the future if they win their war of aggression against Ukraine. That's why we joined NATO last year. In general, both candidates had very similar views on security policy and our role in NATO, although Stubb was more hawkish about it and even said we could change the law to allow the transport of nuclear weapons as a deterrent (dealbreaker for many on the left, boon for many on the right).

By Finnish law, the president becomes commander in chief if war breaks out, and a lot of voters (especially along the Russian border) saw military service as a prerequisite for that job. Which is ridiculous. The whole idea is that the operations would be planned and the troops commanded by professional high-ranking officers, but a democratically elected civil leader should make the final decisions and unite the nation behind them. Haavisto has been awarded several military medals for his merits as a UN peace broker, for example, and even Stubb pointed out in a debate that it would be pretty rich of him as a Lance Corporal to start barking out orders in a military capacity.

And then there was of course their party background and the many ways that factored in. Stubb's Coalition Party is the current prime ministerial party with a very strong and active base (current support is 22.4%), while the Greens are a medium-sized party (8.2%). This was also reflected in campaign funding - the CP forked out five times as much money for Stubb's campaign as the Greens did for Haavisto. Stubb also had more big money donors, while Haavisto mostly relied on grassroots donations.

Both parties are pretty well established and also quite polarising to the "other side." The CP's policy of spending cuts + tax cuts is popular across the right and gets more and more unpopular the further left you go. The Greens' focus on climate change is extremely unpopular on the far right and in the rural areas, but extremely popular on the left and in the big cities. There's also a (largely racist) misconception on the right that the left wants open borders and condones terrorism. Haavisto's "past political scandal" was related to an operation to repatriate children of ISIS fighters a few years back - whereas Stubb had been gone from Finnish politics for a while, so his political skeletons (e.g. arrogantly lying to parliament as minister of finance) were buried deeper.

Now, differences in internal policy would have actually separated the candidates, but they weren't discussed as much during the election, because the president's official role is limited to foreign and security policy. Haavisto's experience in those was much more extensive and substantial, but Stubb's wasn't that bad either. They also agreed on most topics, which made for some boring debates.

Interestingly enough, when there was more focus on internal policy and people's everyday concerns towards the end of the campaign period, support for Haavisto increased. He found it important to show that he knew and cared about such matters, because the president is also a "leader in values." Stubb mostly tried to dodge and stonewall such questions because he found them irrelevant to the president's official duties, and when pressed for an answer, he came across as very privileged and glaringly oblivious.

But as mentioned, it was the other things that mattered more to the voters. The rural areas, smaller townships and west coast are conservative strongholds, and I guess they thought even a liberal conservative was better than a liberal moderate. Especially if the latter was also a gay environmentalist who didn't spend those all-important six to twelve months in the barracks.

So that was how we got President Stubb. A president who is presumed straight and has done his military service. A president with some foreign policy experience and a sort of hawkish NATO stance. A president who is liberal and will hopefully display those values more now that he doesn't need to worry about upsetting the bigots - but who is pretty far removed from the common people and whose ability to unite the nation and be a good leader is doubted by many on the left.

To end this on a nice and hopeful note, the candidates did their best last night promote that national unity. Apparently, they had agreed after their final TV debate that whoever won would come from the TV studio (where they would receive the result) to the other guy's event and address his supporters before going back to his own.

And sure enough: Stubb gave a short but seemingly heartfelt speech thanking Haavisto and his campaign for how respectful and constructive all their discussions and debates were, praised him as "one of the finest people he'd ever met", hinted at potential future cooperation in the field of peacemaking, jokingly apologised to Haavisto's husband for "stealing" him for the last few months, and encouraged everyone in Team Alex and Team Pekka to come together as Team Finland. Haavisto heartily congratulated him and wished him well.

So, I don't know. I remember how arrogant Stubb has always come across, and I remember his political history. I hate him for both those reasons, I hate his party, and I hate that the bigots got what they wanted. But I really liked his gesture last night, I like that he has liberal values, and I guess I may also grow to like his lack of interest in internal politics (the current president is also from the CP, and he has occasionally overstepped by voicing support for his party's austerity politics).

So, congrats and good luck to Alex Stubb, I guess. You're not my president, but I appreciate that you're trying to be.

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2023 Listener Survey: Including new experiment questions!

We're running our second official listener/reader survey!

This is your chance to tell us what you're into on Lingthusiasm, what we could do more of, suggest topics and guests for future episodes, and also answer some fun linguistics experiment questions. This year's experiment questions are new, so feel free to take it again if you did it last year and you're curious!

The survey is online, and will take 5-30 minutes (depending on how much you want to tell us in the open text boxes).

The survey runs across our anniversary month, and closes December 15th 2023.

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Results from our 2022 survey!

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BSD-Bibliophile Japanese Literature & Bungou Stray Dogs Survey - 2023

15 Days until the survey closes!

I am interested in knowing if BSD fans are reading the literary works by the Japanese authors who inspired the series. This is a short survey about Japanese authors and Bungou Stray Dogs. Everyone is welcome to take part in this survey, and feel free to share the link outside of Tumblr: https://forms.gle/8dMBvgge5stCdVR5A

The survey will be open from November 15 - December 15.

Please fill out this survey even if you have not read any of the real authors’ works or have not watched/read Bungou Stray Dogs. Your responses are just as valuable and greatly appreciated.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to send me a private message through Tumblr or write them in the comment section of the survey.

If you are interested in viewing the results from past surveys, here are the results from 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. You can also compare the results from the past two years on the BSD-Bibliophile Online Library Survey Results page.

Thank you to all those who participate!

Survey Results are posted here.

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New SpaceTime out Monday....

SpaceTime 20231211 Series 26 Episode 148

A new possible explanation for the Hubble tension

Ever since its creation in a big bang 13.82 billion years ago the universe has been expanding. But that rate of expansion has been an on going area of debate with different measurement techniques giving contradictory values and different results.

The satellite discovered by the Lucy mission gets a name

The satellite discovered during the first asteroid encounter of NASA's Lucy mission has now been given an official name – Selam – which means peace in the Ethiopian language Amharic. The tiny moon was discovered orbiting the asteroid Dinkinesh during Lucy’s fly by last month.

Starship’s second flight explodes in mid air

SpaceX are describing the second test flight of its Starship Superheavy rocket as a success even though both stages suffered catastrophic failures during the flight. The 121 metre tall vehicle is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built producing some 16.7 million pounds of thrust -- more than double that of the Saturn V rockets used to send Apollo astronauts to the Moon.

The Science Report

Scientists have confirmed that 2023 will be the warmest year since records began.

Organ donations from older people may accelerate aging in younger recipients.

Australia's magic mushrooms could help breed tomorrow's 'designer shrooms.

Skeptics guide to Faith Healers

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SpaceTime -- A brief history

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