moodyIf you have no idea what Survey!Fail is, courtesy of
elfwreck, linkspam one, linkspam two and linkspam three will give you a million posts on what is going on, and a lot of them are really fun, and some of them are very technical, and some made me wikipedia and learn about phrenology, which is about skull measurements to determine personality. Which you know, seriously, I don't even know at this point what the hell I am reading, but one day, I am going to go on Jeopardy and kick ass because of the sheer amount of random information I am picking up.If you want it shorter and in a single layman entry, however, my comm of choice is Unfunny Business, which has like, everything.
So. Two links courtesy of
jonquil:Neurology For Beginners by
neededalj, who has been critical in debunking a lot of what was going around about what this survey was doing.Psychology for Beginners by
sabrina_il, which debunks what psychology can do right now and what it can't.My Random Comments After Reading Five Million Entries or Something Like That
I am still feeling stroppy, so I'm skipping commentary, which luckily, cannot possibly be missed since there's tons of it out there. I just kind of want to, you know, tell a story and not be reminded that in fandom, the act of posting fiction is part of an ongoing realtime study examining why on earth I'm doing such a thing and everything that could possibly, possibly mean.
And you know, I want a pony, too. Give me a few days and I will totally be over it.
2009-09-03 04:07 am (UTC)
I think it was the... de-personification of fandom and individual fans that got Right Up My Nose. Because, y'know. We aren't part of various social and biological groups that have been historically and CURRENTLY disempowered and treated with systemic prejudice. And history isn't important, and neither is treating people well when they say "THIS SHIT IS MESSED UP. YOU HURT ME." *spits*
Sorry. I got rant on your journal *wipes it away*
And you shouldn't hyperexamine the blowing up of starships. I have your answer right here. Because it's AWESOME.
2009-09-03 09:48 pm (UTC)
I'm thinking of writing a post just about how scared I'm getting that if anything written by these yahoos sees daylight, it'll cause an increase in skeevy guys at cons just trying to get the fandom girls they've heard are oh so kinky, and about what the implications for college-age female fans openly in anime clubs or otherwise clearly A Fan to people on-campus will be if the scarier male students have heard someone else read a book that said Most Fan Women Have Rape Fantasies.
(And since at least one statement I've read from Ogas stated they were weeding out trick responses, that means they can weed out true responses that don't match Kinky Female Slasher Who Does Pot And Has Regular Rape Fantasies just as easily and no one would ever be able to know if the final data they worked with was the true response set.)