Poll: Compare Amongst Yourselves

[thefourthvine]

makesmewannadie is visiting me, and we got to talking, as we often do. (Okay. Full disclosure: the actual challenge would be making us shut the fuck up.) And one thing we talked about reminded me of a poll I'd considered posting lo these many moons ago, to test a hypothesis that I can't very well tell you beforehand. (Bias is death to informal and statistically skewed LJ polls, my friends.)

So, first, let me just say: hey, it'd be cool if you'd take this poll. I would love you and stuff.

Second - when I say "your friends list," I mean the portion of your friends list that you read regularly - your default reading filter, if you have one, or the whole list if that's how you read. (If you don't read your friends list at all, this poll is not going to be a good fit for you.) My point is, I want you to consider the people you know the best. (Which is not to say you necessarily know them well, of course.) And when I say "the average," I mean your own personally assessed average of this trait over your friends list.

And, seriously, there are no bad answers here. I'm only wondering where you fit into your own mental picture of your friends list for these particular variables. I know you may not have great data for all these questions; just give me your first reaction, and I will of course love you forever.

ETA: Please don't go back to change your answers after you've finished the poll and seen the results! (Unless you think of something you want to add to the text box, or you've decided shoes are more important than almost-cock. Those questions are weighty and take long consideration; I understand that.)



[Poll #931955]

Comments

Re: Success

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Huh. It never even occurred to me to answer in terms of fannish success.

Re: Success

[hossgal.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't compartmentalize worth crap, so that likely had something to do with it.

And even if we're just talking RL - what about writing vs paying job vs family - I know people who are very happy with their situations in one or all of those, but how do we define 'success' in each of those - is a person who is married with childern and happy about it more successful than a person who is single and unattached and happy about it? Is a person with a 'good' job and happy about it more successful than a disabled stay-at-home who is *quite* content with just breathing and typing, thank you, and astonished that she's still doing that, after all she's gone through?

(There was a survey done some years back, which tried to define 'successful parenting' - which ended up using, I think, "drug-free, never incarcerated, high school graduate and continously employed" as their standard of a "successful end product" of parenting. So. *shrugs*)

- hg