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Published on the Doomstead Diner on October 27, 2015

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I'm going to hold off on publishing FULL RESULTS of the Collapse Personality Profile Survey TM until next week, because the results coming in so far are absolutely FASCINATING and I don't want to skew further respondents answers by giving away too much of what has come in so far. We have around ~80 respondents to the survey in the first week, and I will tell you that watching the numbers accumulate, the percentages for each category have not changed much if at all from the first ~20 or so to the current ~80. What that means in statistical terms is that the results are invariant in terms of sample size in this population. So it's pretty valid already, but still I want another week's worth of data in there before doing a final crunching of the numbers on the spreadsheet for the Personality and IQ data.

What I will fill in on in for this week is the Demographics, which mostly I expected but in some areas i was surprised.

The first surprising area was Doomer Gender. My experience across the net over the last 8 years or so has been 10% or even less of the participants on Doom Websites were female. However, the Survey Sez that the percentage of females haunting the Doom-o-sphere TM is actually around 20%!

Male Female Other Standard Deviation Responses All Data 62

(80.52%) 15

(19.48%) 0

(0%) 26.41 77

So with Doomer Females, it seems likely that only half of those who read Doom (and will do an anonymous survey also) actually will ever post up on a Doomsite TM. That is an anecdotal WAG based on my own experience, not scientific. lol.

Unsurprisly, most Doomers are White Males from North America with a formal education of Bacheors Degree or better:

High School Associates Degree Bachelors Degree Masters Degree Doctoral Degree Other Standard Deviation Responses All Data 10

(12.99%) 10

(12.99%) 27

(35.06%) 16

(20.78%) 5

(6.49%) 9

(11.69%) 7.1 77

White Black Brown Red Yellow Albino Standard Deviation Responses All Data 68

(90.67%) 3

(4%) 1

(1.33%) 1

(1.33%) 2

(2.67%) 0

(0%) 24.84 75

North America Central America South America Western Europe Eastern Europe North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Middle East North Asia Southeast Asia Australia/New Zealand Standard Deviation Responses All Data 53

(68.83%) 0

(0%) 1

(1.3%) 16

(20.78%) 1

(1.3%) 0

(0%) 0

(0%) 0

(0%) 2

(2.6%) 1

(1.3%) 3

(3.9%) 15.2 77

The most surprising to me Demographic was the Age Distribution! My experience has been that most Doomers are Boomers, aka people around age 50-70. This does not seem to be the case at all though, rather Doomers are distributed pretty evenly through all generations, although the Gen X-Y group is dominant here.

<18 18-24 25-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80+ Standard Deviation Responses All Data 0

(0%) 4

(5.19%) 13

(16.88%) 18

(23.38%) 13

(16.88%) 13

(16.88%) 14

(18.18%) 2

(2.6%) 0

(0%) 6.57 77

I will save the stats on Personality Typing and IQ for next week, other than to say that Doomers appear to be a good deal Smarter than the Average Bear by the measure of a short IQ Test. I was a bit surprised at how many actually took that test and reported their results. Whether everyone was honest about it or did not cheat the test I don't know. Based on the average level of education though, I think this average IQ is probably valid, although perhaps up-skewed 5-10 points.

Next week I will publish the actual PERSONALITY of DOOMERS results, which are actually even more interesting. 🙂 So if you have not yet already done so, you have one more week to take the tests and answer the survey before I run the spreadsheet for this tally!

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