Poll and Miscellany

[thefourthvine]

Three things, almost entirely content free. (But one of them is a poll! There will be clicking, and that's always fun, right?)

I swear I will have actual content in this LJ again. Eventually. In the meantime -

1. Remember the poll? Um, this one? Thanks to everyone who took it, by the way, and I am slowly working my way through the comments, because they are meaty and thought-filled and fun. And I'm knee-deep in meta about it, but it's taken a strange turn. So I'm hoping that some of you will do my a favor, and run a poll like this one:
   
   [Poll #831564]
   
   Basically, I want you to ask your friends what archetype they think you are. (I've alphabetized the archetypes to make finding them easier.) And while you're here, please do pick mine; I'm truly curious to see if there's a difference between how I see myself and how others see me. (In this sense only. I'm not crazy.)
   
   Sadly, I don't have bribes to offer. But if you do run a poll like this, and you also drop me a link in the comments here, I will be forever grateful. And you will be furthering the cause of meta. (I know, I know, it's not precisely ever fan's dream, but - stay with me, here, okay?)
   
   
2. This is driving me insane, so - okay. I collect what I call genderswapped songs. Although, really, I should call them ungenderswapped songs - the song is covered by a singer of a different sex than the original one, but no gendered element of the song is changed. I have one song by Cam Clarke, from Inside Out, which is a whole CD of songs just like this. (The one I have is Son of a Preacher Man.) And I cannot find the whole CD anywhere. Does anyone have a copy of this? Or know where I can get a copy of this? I am experiencing the anguish of the thwarted collector, and it is not pretty.
   
   
3. This is more of a bonus item; I found it interesting. If any of you watch AMVs - and if you don't, why not? - you might want to take a look at this AMV-related survey.

Comments

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for replying! And I actually do appreciate the rambling, because I originally found this incomprehensible (and a bit irritating, mostly because the poll appeared uncut all over my flist, but that's certainly not your fault) and now I understand that you are looking at a particular subset of people whose self-identification doesn't track with their outside identification, and why. And I find polls (usually) interesting.

Speaking of polls, I suspect that were I to ask people what my primary fandom is, people in one would choose the other, because I think that they would be personally biased against my babbling about whatever fandom they don't care for and therefore notice it more.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

you are looking at a particular subset of people whose self-identification doesn't track with their outside identification, and why.

Yup, that's it. Only, you know, you put it more succinctly than I did.

I'm also now looking at a subset of things that other people are more likely to know about us than we are about ourselves.

And I'm getting distracted by looking at how people take polls; like, I've got a number for how many people don't check the headcount button (5%, roughly) and how many people don't follow the instructions for a given question (also roughly 5%, and probably for similar reasons).

I suspect that were I to ask people what my primary fandom is, people in one would choose the other, because I think that they would be personally biased against my babbling about whatever fandom they don't care for and therefore notice it more.

*head tilt*

Ooo, that's an interesting one. (I'd say it's currently dS, for the record, and I am in that fandom.) I wonder what results you would get. You could ask them how long they've been reading your LJ and what fandom(s) of yours they're interested in, and then you could see if it correlates. That would be excellent.