Jump to content
ReefCleaners.org

Help a grad student: Reef Survey

H&Wnano

By H&Wnano,
in General Discussion

Recommended Posts

H&Wnano

H&Wnano

Posted
Posted

**UPDATE** Here are some of the early results of the survey from my paper. I haven't gotten into analyzing the data about tanks and what people keep in them yet. The questions about how long you have been in the hobby and in the forums is also upcoming - much of the data from the time questions might not be usable because the format provided for entering years and months wasn't always followed, and just a number response (like "2") can't be interpreted. Thanks everyone who participated!

 

As of November 30, 2009, the online survey had been running for approximately six weeks, allowing the collection of 281 responses from the community. While this is by no means a description of the whole community of more than 45,000 members, it does begin to give some insight into who is out there.

 

Survey respondents ranged from 13 to 62 years of age with most participants being in their early to mid-twenties. Close to eighty-five percent of the community respondents were males. Seventy-five percent of respondents identified themselves as Caucasian. All other racial/ethnic groups were represented by less than 1% of respondents. Interestingly, about 74% of respondents indicated that they were the only person in their household to participate in the marine aquarium hobby. Finally, respondents resided in 43 of the 50 United States, with California, Florida, and New York being the areas that most respondents came from. Participants also responded from Canada, England, Hong Kong, Jordan, Mexico, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

 

Overall, participants indicated that they enjoyed the experience on the forums and that it helped them in their experiencing of the marine aquarium keeping hobby. Some responses included:

 

Oct 30, 2009 10:42 AM

Without the forums, I wouldn’t be involved in this wonderful hobby. :)

 

Nov 1, 2009 12:32 AM

We should have more forums available free to public about everything....

 

Nov 2, 2009 6:57 PM

I like that it is a diverse community - unlimited by distance, time, race, or background and

people are open to giving help to those new to the hobby.

 

There were also those who decided to use their comment space to indicate some of the other aspects of the forum:

 

Nov 10, 2009 2:21 PM

People repeat questions too often. Use the search function!

 

Oct 30, 2009 10:08 AM

forums are an interesting thing. there is alot of good info to be had but there is also a lot of

bullsh*t to wade through. i appreciate the info that is out there but wish everyone could

behave themself. /rant

 

 

**Original Post**

 

Hey there everyone,

 

I am writing a paper in graduate school about the marine aquarium hobby and need your help! I want to get an idea of who is using the forums and how you are using the forums. There are so many great people on here that I would love to get a bigger picture of who all of us are. So if you have 10 minutes (or even less, its quick!), please follow the link to take my survey of forum users. It is totally anonymous - the only information I have to uniquely identify "who" gave an answer is a time stamp. It isn't connected to your user name or any other information. This is completely voluntary, and I would love you help in keeping the thread alive so that lots of people take the survey. With over 40,000 registered users, I think we could get 1,000 people to respond don't you? Anyway, if you are feeling like helping out a fellow reefer, please take the survey. I'll post some results online here so that you can all see the diversity of your fellow hobbyists.

 

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl...vb25rcXk3UFE6MA

 

Thank you so much for reading, participating, and your time!

H&Wnano

 

And since I've received so many questions about it - yes, I'm going to post the "in-progress" results in about another month, but the survey will remain open during the remainder of the time I am in the class (at least one more quarter, so March-ish) so that I can try to give people who aren't on the forums much a chance to check out what is going on and respond.

 

Thank you to everyone who is working to help this project out by participating and linking the survey in signatures and everything like that. Just goes to show how awesome this community is!

 

Best to you all.

Link to comment
  • Replies 119
  • Created
  • Last Reply
H&Wnano

H&Wnano

Posted
  • Author
Posted

You are rockstars! Thanks so much for the help so far.

 

And orphic, I am so jealous that you have seahorses for your avatar. We live in an area that is too hot for them, but we are considering taking down our nano (at least moving all the sting-y stuff to the big tank) and re-vamping it for horses since we have a chiller on that one.

 

I can't wait to see more. Maybe we can get 100 by the end of the day?

Link to comment
sublunary

sublunary

Posted
Posted

Done and giving you a bump in the hopes more people take it.

 

Super quick - took me less than 5 minutes even though I tend to write rambly answers.

Link to comment

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Recommended Discussions

×
×
  • Create New...