reader survey

DrugMonkey's Google calendar must have told him that it's time for the meme in which bloggers ask their readers what they're doing here, a meme whose originator is the esteemed Ed Yong. Having played along myself in 2008 and 2009, I'm on-board to mount the 2010 version of this blog-reader census. Please respond to at least some of these questions in the comments so we can avoid the expense of sending people with clipboards to your front door: Who are you? (Scientist, philosopher, other? Student, parent, working stiff, blissful retiree? Given that personal identity is a matter of deep…
There are nearly 500 complete responses to the survey from last week. Here's a CSV file of the results. Below the fold are the frequencies as well as N's. I might report some trends in the data, but a lot of it is predictable. People who only read ScienceBlogs GNXP are way more liberal than those who do not. Reads.... Only GNXP ScienceBlogs Only GNXP Classic Both No Answer 1.83 2.08 2.87 Far Left 13.76 4.17 2.87 Left 28.44 5.56 11.48 Center Left 16.51 10.42 15.31 Center 8.26 6.94 11.00 Center Right 2.75 10.42 11.00 Right 1.83 13.19 10.05 Far Right 0.92 9.03 5.74 Libertarian 20.18 31.94…