This is a very detailed, very simple step-by-step walkthrough of my process for creating my currently-running fetish survey. It’s meant to be easily accessible/understandable to people with little familiarity with research, to explain my reasoning for my decisions, and to outline the limitations. I plan to refer to this as part of my methodology when I start publishing results.
I had some difficulty with categories, in particular not all of the survey questions allowed one to express the situation that what one has done with a partner is entirely distinct from what one fantasizes about. If eg one's sex life is totally vanilla but fantasies aren't, some of the questions become ambiguous.
Must say we were disappointed (not suprised bc that's common thing in this tests) you didn't put asexuality in orientation section. So we just went with bi and equal attraction to each gender.
Some questions were confusing so we decided to skip them.
But that's definitely a great effort you did with this survey
Have you ever considered, maybe after this project is completed, doing your own interviews? Out of all your content, I love the interviews/podcasts you've been on as a guest the most. The writing and research and polls are my next favorite, but the "live" discussions are something else. I find it even better when you're facilitating the discussion.
I wonder how many people took the survey (and read the post) expecting to be a bit aroused by some of the content. Personally, I got a bit confused by some categories, but in a way that shouldn't have affected my score: I clicked on the categories, but my interpretation of them must have been too vanilla, because I didn't find anything erotic inside them.
P.S. Congratulations on starting programming! Hope you'll get the results you're looking for and have some fun in the process.
I enjoyed taking the survey, you clearly poured a lot of effort into designing it and it showed. There was still one kink (har) I've noticed, though. Most questions included a follow-up clarification that was worded something like "when you say you're aroused by X, do you mean you're aroused by doing X or aroused by others doing X?"
However, this was absent for the section about animals (and probably some others I didn't tick), which made it impossible to provide a straight answer which aspects of this fetish were arousing if the arousing aspects were a part of the bigger "growing depravity of others" kinkplex.
You should definitely buy the random responses, and do your write up with much more emphasis on that. A very large sample size is good, but as you mentioned, this sample is nonrandom. It might be better to have a smaller more random sample, than a very large biased sample. The people who follow or read Aella or are friends with people who share her content are a very unusual collection of people, which could be a problem in ways it is hard to immediately recognize. I don't think anything could be representative of the larger population in terms of fetish prevalence, and I would be hesitant about drawing conclusions from the correlations. After all the hard work for creating the survey, I would seek out a better sample to make it worth the effort. That's my take. Maybe others don't see it as such an issue.
I was a bit disappointed there wasn’t more explanation with the answer or result. Like what does your character equivalent mean on a kinkiness scale?
I had some difficulty with categories, in particular not all of the survey questions allowed one to express the situation that what one has done with a partner is entirely distinct from what one fantasizes about. If eg one's sex life is totally vanilla but fantasies aren't, some of the questions become ambiguous.
I would like to know the list of characters that you “are” depending on the results :)
The problem with those sliders is that you can't tell "100% yes to both" from "little bit of this, little bit of that".
I love this study! When and where will you be publishing the results and summary?
Must say we were disappointed (not suprised bc that's common thing in this tests) you didn't put asexuality in orientation section. So we just went with bi and equal attraction to each gender.
Some questions were confusing so we decided to skip them.
But that's definitely a great effort you did with this survey
Jesus tl;dr ("very simple step-by-step walkthrough" my ass lmao)
This was a fun post a but a more scientific process would be awesome
Have you ever considered, maybe after this project is completed, doing your own interviews? Out of all your content, I love the interviews/podcasts you've been on as a guest the most. The writing and research and polls are my next favorite, but the "live" discussions are something else. I find it even better when you're facilitating the discussion.
I wonder how many people took the survey (and read the post) expecting to be a bit aroused by some of the content. Personally, I got a bit confused by some categories, but in a way that shouldn't have affected my score: I clicked on the categories, but my interpretation of them must have been too vanilla, because I didn't find anything erotic inside them.
P.S. Congratulations on starting programming! Hope you'll get the results you're looking for and have some fun in the process.
I enjoyed taking the survey, you clearly poured a lot of effort into designing it and it showed. There was still one kink (har) I've noticed, though. Most questions included a follow-up clarification that was worded something like "when you say you're aroused by X, do you mean you're aroused by doing X or aroused by others doing X?"
However, this was absent for the section about animals (and probably some others I didn't tick), which made it impossible to provide a straight answer which aspects of this fetish were arousing if the arousing aspects were a part of the bigger "growing depravity of others" kinkplex.
I'm surprised that Substack and/or this post aren't options on the "You got to this survey from" question.
You should definitely buy the random responses, and do your write up with much more emphasis on that. A very large sample size is good, but as you mentioned, this sample is nonrandom. It might be better to have a smaller more random sample, than a very large biased sample. The people who follow or read Aella or are friends with people who share her content are a very unusual collection of people, which could be a problem in ways it is hard to immediately recognize. I don't think anything could be representative of the larger population in terms of fetish prevalence, and I would be hesitant about drawing conclusions from the correlations. After all the hard work for creating the survey, I would seek out a better sample to make it worth the effort. That's my take. Maybe others don't see it as such an issue.