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

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I love your polls.

Thank you! (And also, yay, and also thank you so much for saying that, because I always feel like Spam Queen of the Universe when I post them, especially when it's my fourth post in three days.)

This is all an assumption on my part, because honestly I have no idea how so many people have so much time for fannish activities.

I wonder that, too. I mean, I'm so bad at answering comments, keeping up with my friends list - basically, I have time for the community side of fandom, the organized side, or the creative side. But not all three. So I have my fannish priorities set and I use my fannish time in order of priorities and just accept that, hey, I'll never win at fandom the way some folks do. (Although a secret resentful part of me is convinced that those people have access to a Time Turner or a 48-hour day, and they are not sharing, which is obviously wrong and mean of them.)

This leads me to reaffirm something that most of us probably already know: we're much more willing to talk about sex than to talk about money.

Ohhhh, yeah. (Although that's not a bad thing; I mean, sex is just fun, mostly, whereas money, in our world, is a Real Big Deal, and that's if you have enough of it. If you don't have enough, money is a Real Big Deal to the power of 1000.)

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

I think I probably do have fairly accurate sense of how well my flist is doing financially. While I am quite certain that the vast majority of them come from more affluent backgrounds than I do (me = first generation to grow up with indoor plumbing), but, the bulk of them have less money. This is primarily because a large contingent are students, a smaller number have some rather serious and expensive medical problems, and others have recently had bad luck/made unwise decisions/who can really tell which - and then there are the 10 or 15 who seem to have successful careers.

I have a very boring, very secure clerical job. My income is very, very average but, I am probably more financially secure than some of the careerists just because I am quite manic about managing it and not spending more than I take in.

I put average for that one.