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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What went through my mind was a consideration of which of those bothered me - for instance (and speaking only for me) it chafes (in the mild, *really*, don't you have something bigger to worry about besides yourself manner) that I am (imo) less creative than many people on my flist. But being less rich, less sexually active or less kinky is leaving me with a great lack of concern.

That is veeeery interesting. I think - hmmm. Some of the ones I ticked gave me guilt, but the only one that would seriously have bothered me is if I'd ticked "less smart."

What would be v. interesting is if we could see what the average concept of "successful" is

One of the things that interests me, that is really beyond the scope of any quiz, is how people define success, what constitutes success. Like, for me, fandom doesn't figure into it - although fandom definitely figured predominantly into "liked" and "creative" - but a lot of things that might not count under "success" for other people did. I guess what I was really asking there was, "How much have you met the standards/goals/dreams you set for yourself, as compared to your perception of how your friends list has?"

But I used a few very ambiguous - or at least very personally defined - terms deliberately; part of what interests me is how people respond instinctively to questions using terms like that.

perhaps it would be interesting to ask "are you more successful than your flist in fannish terms" and "are you more successful than your flist in real life terms" and see if there is a difference in responses.

It'd be interesting to do a whole post on success, actually - asks what people think constitutes success in fandom, what they think constitutes success in RL, if those intersect at all, and how folks are doing with that. *thoughtful* Of course, I myself would not do a post like that, because I don't have the guts, but - oh, it would be so interesting.

I myself would not do a post like that, because I don't have the guts, but - oh, it would be so interesting.

I think you could get away with a poll on just about any topic you like.

This one was very interesting, and a full analysis of how answers to the various questions correlate would be even more so!

Poll: Compare Amongst Yourselves

Re: Success

Re: Success