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2023 demographics survey results in the link!

My post was too long so I had to post here: https://pastes.io/07p5nd9dxc

Edit: first correction to the paste, our trans community is represented far above the general population. Around 11% of our community is trans, while in the world only 1% of people are. I also only gave absolute numbers for some reason in the paste so here's the percentage points: 10% trans women, 1% trans men, 7.7% nonbinary.

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  • we should probably do this either quarterly, or twice a year. people seem to enjoy knowing the demographics. Also, we need to find a survey service that isn't shit.

    My demographics post from a few years ago was hosted on strawpoll, and that site definitely shouldn't be used. Though, perhaps the next time around that we do a demographics survey, we should include a write-in for ideology. If I remember the results, a large portion of Lemmygrad users back then were ML.

    • I'm using framaforms next time, it's open source (although framaforms is the version hosted by the provider, open source != privacy) and allows up to 1000 survey responses, which hopefully we won't get to yet.

      Down the line we might look at hosting yakforms (the self-hosted framaforms) on ProleWiki as it's interesting to us to host surveys once in a while, and there there are no limits to the responses or anything. Only downside is the question types are severely limited, you have most of the basic ones but no interesting more specific formats.

      • I am really into the whole surveying/statistics field. Is there anywhere dedicated to helping out with that for the future ones? Specially since after the 30th we'll have a whole new influx of redditors.

  • On the class question (Which class are you a part of currently?), most of us predictably answered proletariat: a whopping 61%. The second most represented class is the labour aristocracy, again predictable considering most of us live in the imperial core (22.84%).

    Interestingly enough, I am from Latin America, but from a labor aristocratic background. When I visted a friend in Europe, I noticed I had far better living standards than them

    • I have been thinking about this a lot, for many US-ians and Europeans who know Spanish or Portuguese and work from home, they could easily live comfortable lives in many Latin American countries. Even have public healthcare. I think it is a neat idea for any Imperial Core comrades who work in tech and want to have more time for communism.

    • You are not labor aristocratic and I wouldn't trust the "living standards" too much; people have a weird conception of poverty and "middle strata" and how they actually live.

      • Yes, comrade, I am. I am the son of two doctors, a profession which is highly valued here in Brazil. My family earns enough not to go through economic grievances, so much so my mother is able to sustain a company just through her salary alone (which is a major drain in the family's finances btw). So you could consider myself from a petty-bourgeois/labor aristocratic background, but more precisely labor aristocratic, since the family's income does not come from the company, but from the wages they receive as doctors.

  • One thing I didn't note in the OP: this survey didn't take activity into account. It's possible that the people you interact most in a day on Lemmygrad do not fit in the majorities but the minorities, and the majority of users (white, cis men, etc) are lurkers.

  • Hey, just wanted to recommend this tool for a Pastebin replacement, it is being developed by a Lemmy user, @lcomrade@lemmy.ml and their instance can be found here and the source code here, it seems like a better alternative to what you've used and judging by the domain and name of the user, it seems they are a comrade of ours, so it's nice to support them.

  • Just wondering, in future surveys, will there also be options for handedness? (Left-handed, Right-handed, Cross-Dominant, Ambidextrous, or Other/None of The Above)

    As a left-handed individual, I am curious if other comrades are also left-handed.

    • We could add it, but you would likely see a normal distribution of around 10% of the community, as in the wider population.

  • really, really interesting post. what was the breakdown for college degrees? (bachelor, masters, doctorate)

    • Out of all total responses, bachelor: 28%, master: 13%, doctorate: 5.72%

      I should have added a "working on doctorate" response probably, this question doesn't take into account diplomas that are in the process of being acquired.

  • Thank you for the write-up, that was some great insight! I am curious about the people that are Christian communists (what does that look like?) Edit: I wonder if ignorance had a significant effect on the results. For example, I was not familiar with the concept of labor aristocracy so I answered proletariat when asked what class I belonged to. Guess you have to run the survey at least one more time. Excellent work!

    • Liberation theology has a long history. I personally don’t understand how anyone can base their worldview on the assumption of a sky-daddy, but I have respect for the fact that the first communists (if utopian) were christians. Some notable Christian comrades include Woodie Guthrie and Paul Robeson. Idk any good theory about it, but I’d suggest the Intervention Podcast’s episode on Nicaragua.

  • Unfeaturing this post but you can still look at the paste, don't hesitate to remind new comrades about the results too

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