Derpy :Inspired by: by =C-Cain
This came over the news ticker yesterday but I didn’t bother to check into it until today. Know Your Meme conducted a survey of the pony community. The survey polled various aspects of the community ranging from age, gender, religion and of course the show itself, such as favorite/least favorite episodes, characters and aspects. The full document can be seen after the page break, but through my reading I’ve pulled basically the interesting parts.
- Population is 87% Male, 11% Female, and the rest either unsure of neither. We generally already knew this.
- Average age is 19, largest population in the survey being between 16 to 18, oldest fan being 57 years old.
- 61% of the fandom is US, followed by the UK (25%), Canada (6%) and everyone else (6%)
- 81% of the population is single.
- A good chunk of the population is Atheist or Agnostic when it comes to religion.
- 81% of the community is straight, 7% bisexual and 2% Homosexual.
- 13% of the community claims to be sexual attracted to ponies (farmers, hide your ponies)
- Overall favorite pony: Twilight Sparkle (23%), with RD, PP and Fluttershy averaging about the same (16%).
- Splitting the above into based on sex, males prefer Twilight, Females prefer Pinkie Pie.
- Favorite Pet: Gummy followed by Angel and Tank.
- Favorite Top 5 Secondary Characters: Derpy, Luna, Discord, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle
- Favorite Top 5 Episodes: Lesson Zero, Luna Eclipsed, A Friend In Deed, The Last Roundup, Party of One
- Least Favorite Episode: Owl’s Well That Ends Well
- Separate Poll for Least Favorite Episode: The Mysterious Mare Do Well, followed by the Owl.
I always take stuff like this with a cup of tea, I’m not really all that trusting of studies & statistics, they always seem to be skewed in some way or another. Although I can (sadly) believe the 81% of Bronies are single (y ladies no like nice guys?) However I think the male to female ratio seems abit off, I would think there would be more female fans, but hey maybe thats just me.
No comment on the political & religious beliefs of brines as I think mentioning that is pointless overall same thing for sexuality.
As for finding ponies sexy. Well….they aren’t ugly, thats for sure, lol.
So, why didn’t you post the percentages on atheism and agnosticism?
Cause there was none, just numbers which I guess I could have added. 1,381 people are Atheist, 863 are Agnostic, 630 are Christian (Protestant), 510 are Christian (Catholic), 515 Not listed, 83 Buddhist, 40 Jewish, 18 Muslims and 4 Hindu.
hey-oh! canada tied with ‘everywhere else’! woohoo!
Holy Celestia. If I’d filled in this survey, I’d be the oldest. (I’ll be 59 in six months.)
As a great philosopher once said, “Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” ;)
Of course, 3602 people out of hundreds of thousands of people doesn’t meany anything at all for good data in a survey.
So yeah. None of this data means anything at all.
How do you figure that?
They’re all still fans of the show, even if it’s less of them. It’s just going to be a smaller pool of the exact same people.
It’s not like they asked 4 people.
The results here would barely change, if at all.
Regarding the number participating, I can tell you, atleast empirically, that the people who bothered with the survey are probably quite different from people who didnt bother to fill out the survey. Beyond that:
The thing isnt even about the numbers, but the source. I can guarantee you, that the results from EqD people in mid-2012, are not at all representative of fans of the show as a whole.
Do you think Plaster took part in this?
Not to bash EqD (or Plaster) but I am much more interested in, and likely to share, his answers/opinions as someone who is also a cynical, older, long time fan of the show, as opposed to an EqD kid, who started watching 6 months ago
Hah. It’s not even the EqD crowd, it’s the [i]KnowYourMeme[/i] group. So you’re getting an extremely small amount of data points from a very specific and localized part of the internet and using said data to look at thousands of people. That would be like surveying a town and applying the information to everyone in a country.
tl;dr: Completely useless data from a website that is owned by a company that thrives on thievery.