thefourthvine | Poll: Compare Amongst Yourselves

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.)

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This is weird. Lots of them I didn't have much trouble with, some I had to think, and the two about happiness and stability were really hard. I have some unhappy and unstable people on my flist, and normally I feel quite happy and stable, but lately not so much, and I'm trying to work out just how unhappy/unstable I am, and if I am at all, when I shouldn't be, really, and... blah blah blah. Anyway, I can't really answer because I don't know the answer myself at the moment. :(
I compared myself more to the flisters I know better, to make it easier.

(Hey. You two promised to use only your default icons when commenting with me! Although the cow is so damn cute that I don't have the heart to complain, especially since I'm getting so much better at telling you apart.)

This is weird.

I, too, found it a very weird exercise.

normally I feel quite happy and stable, but lately not so much,

Honey, with what's going on in your life - um, well, I've been in similar territory, and so I feel like I can say with authority that it's proof that your normal state is happy and stable if you're managing to deal at all right now.

I'm trying to work out just how unhappy/unstable I am, and if I am at all, when I shouldn't be, really

It's important to figure that out, yeah, especially when it's a change for you, from how you normally feel. But - wait, did you say you shouldn't feel unhappy or unstable right now? I read your LJ, you know. No way am I going to buy that statement from you, even if I bought into the "should" thing at all when it comes to feelings. (My belief: it doesn't matter how you should feel, only how you do feel, and getting hung up on how you should feel only makes it harder to deal with how you do feel.)

*sigh* I went into lecture mode, didn't I? Sorry.

*vows to leave hugs, not lectures, in the future*

Poll: Compare Amongst Yourselves

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