#Responsible use of data

[ask4write]

Unveiling the Future: A Deep Dive into Emerging Technologies and Their Influence on Industries and Everyday Life

In an era of rapid technological advancement, emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain are revolutionizing industries and transforming the way we live and work. In this blog post, we will delve into these cutting-edge technologies, their potential applications, and the profound impact they have on various sectors and our daily…

[idontmindifuforgetme]

the neurologist i shadow is so funny bc she has a valley girl accent and yet she's the smartest person in the room. this woman was casually doing case consenus ab a man w frontotemporal dementia in the highest girliest voice imaginable. i want to be her i think

[febuwhump]

is there a way you can tell how many unique individuals participated in the poll? i mean email addresses should help, right? just curious. (<— sent in 8% of the total votes)

the poll takes no personal data, not even email addresses, to my knowledge. there is no way to tell how many unique individuals voted because I don't wanna be handling personal data, especially when I keep the results for extended periods of time

[starscelly]

i think race in hockey is a bigger discussion that we Need to constantly be having and acknowledging the rampant racism within the league and within fandom. but i think acting like Literally Hockey Blorbo Polls That Uses Tumblr User Voted Data is the nexus of evil and racism in this fandom when it's is a very real and serious issue in the ACTUAL LEAGUE and in fandom in more tangible and negatively impactful ways is weird and a waste of all of our times and energies

[bookwyrminspiration]

TLT's Religion + Trauma Survey Results!

About a month ago, I shared a survey regarding the impact of TLT's religion on fans and specifically fans with self-identified religious trauma. This was part of a larger group project for a class, but a handful of people were interested in knowing the results, so here they are!

Before we start: this was a very informal project and necessarily limited. Response options were limited, it didn't inquire into demographic information, data was analyzed manually, and Christianity was the focus/frequently presumed given its global prevalence and relation to the story. Several avenues of analysis weren't pursued given time and project constraints, so please keep all this in mind

The survey was open for about a week and received 965 responses

First, respondents were asked on a scale of 1-4 "Does The Locked Tomb's use or depiction of religion impact your reading experience?" From the entire pool, 83.6% rated it as at least slightly impactful (further broken down in the graph), and 97.4% indicated this was a positive impact.

In open response, respondents listed some reasons why, ranging from: "“it's just a part of the story” to “I enjoy the examination of the ways religion can shape someone's world view, or be used to manipulate and control” and "Religion is my autistic special interest and I love fictional religions!"

Respondents were then asked "Do you have, in your opinion, religious trauma?" The qualifications of religious trauma were intentionally non-specified and left to respondents discretion.

358 respondents, 37.1%, marked yes

This specific group of 358 were asked if this religious trauma impacted their reading of TLT. 66.1% indicated that it did.

Open response answers elaborated on this, saying: “I think reading it is cathartic for me,” “Space trauma lets me look at my real trauma without me or real people being hurt in it,” and “making religion a part of the narrative and drawing out the themes in a way that can be analyzed and picked apart made my experience with religion something I could look at in a similar way.”

The first question from the survey was then returned to, and the ratings of the 1-4 scale were looked at solely in the group of 358 respondents with self-identified religious trauma.

Of these, 90.3% marked a 2 or higher (compared to 83.6); 15% marked a 2 (compared to 22.1%), 31% marked a 3 (compared to 33%), and 44.3% marked a 4 (compared to 28.6%). Pardon the quick graph, as I made it in about 3 minutes specifically for this

Respondents with religious trauma, on average, rated the series' depiction of religion as more impactful to their reading experience than respondents without.

All respondents were then asked, "Has TLT helped you challenge or reinforce your ideas of and experiences with religion?"

Respondents elaborated that: "it reinforced my ideas of religion because I see religion as a means of controlling people, often abusive, and rooted in the supernatural" or "It challenged me to consider how religion can be both a positive force and a hurtful institution. I knew this to a degree already, having experienced both, but reading about it helped reinforce that nuance."

Respondents were then asked on a scale of 1-5, "Does the original text or the fandom contribute more to challenging or reinforcing ideas of and experiences with religion?" 1 is individual text only, and 5 is fandom only.

The majority of respondents indicated an equal impact from the original text and the fandom, however very few people were impacted only by the fandom (1.4%) compared to the number only impacted by the text (13.8%). This wasn't investigated further.

Finally, respondents were asked what religion they'd been referring to or thinking of when they'd been answering the above questions. The vast majority indicated Christianity or Catholicism, though we did not count exactly how many of each; it was clear it was the majority, and that sufficed for our purposes. A larger, more thorough study would be needed to look at Non-Christian/Catholic respondents' experiences in comparison.

The conclusion of all of this was that, as predicted, fans of TLT with self-identified religious trauma were more impacted by the series' use and depiction of religion. This was via catharsis, sympathy, identifying with the characters, and more.

The study demonstrates a function of speculative fiction that allows readers to engage with and process difficult topics (such as religious trauma) though a protected, distanced lens where no one real is hurt. This can be taken beyond TLT and to the genre as a whole, which is often dismissed as less literary or worthy of study than its classical counterparts, an opinion the surveyors argue against.

If you've made it to the end here, thank you again for all the responses and help! I hope you've enjoyed the results, and if there are any further questions feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer them. Upfront, yes there were 2 other components to the project (looking at queer demographics for the fandom and analyzing common themes in fanart and fic); those were my groupmates' sections, so I haven't shared them, but if you're curious I can always ask them if they'd be open to sharing :)

[csny]

since when has there been a music league year in review😭 sorry we need to end this epidemic

[sidhewrites]

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[cube-cumb3r]

I am God's strongest bravest princess I've caught the evilest of colds (slight headache, scratchy throat) AND I just had to do a weeks worth or dishes ?! when will I get justice

[unsettlingcreature]

JK Rowling go fuck yourself and crawl back under your rock

[rookflower]

do you have any results to share from the wc fan survey?

ive been busyyy sorry. I'll try to close it soon 😭

[bread-tab]

i bought a cheap squishy toy and it smells like something i should definitely not be inhaling at all (kind of like gas/petrol but more factory-plasticky? i'm a retail drone not a chemist) and, of course, it was made in china.

("of course" not so much because of the price or quality but because everything is. at every price range and standard, tbh. i'm not trying to say everything made in china sucks. for the tumblr-pedantic record. rip to the workers in the stinky plastic factory though. :/)

so i was like "if this was made in america i could figure out where. we put the company address on everything here. but can i do that with an overseas company?" and the answer is yes maybe (i found the import/middleman companies and there are "trading" websites that track this stuff) but also no because i can't read mandarin. (sorry ancestors)

anyway that's how i find out about this place

yiwu "market" aka "international trade city." alleged "world's largest wholesale market." the mall to end all malls. this place sells stuff to the entire world by the shipping container. didn't even slightly exist in 1980; now does billions of dollars in trade annually which supports a city of 2 million people. which previously was just. like. a farming village.

(btw take this info with a grain of salt *please* i got it from youtube, google and wikipedia and i'm existing in an incredulous sleep-deprived haze)

literally miles of showrooms of every random manufactured item you can imagine. toys, clothes, electronics, household goods, christmas decorations...

i cannot stress enough that we do not have this kind of thing here. (... do we?) but. we have the stuff. this is where all the stuff is from. all roads lead to yiwu, apparently

sometimes you just get reminded... world big. but also. world interconnected. not so small after all. but so connected.

[watery-melon-baller]

whoooooos willing to go into the toh discord server and plop my silly little fandom survey in there because im too much of a pussy to do it myself <3

[tristrattournament]

Overall Tournament Results

Here's a deeper dive into the tournament results and how each contestant fared! These results don't include the bonus polls, and in cases where two contestants moved on together (Benedict and Orlaea, Julio and Jens) I split their votes between them so that each received half.

I'll be doing some traveling soon so I probably won't start a new tournament right away, but I'm loosely planning to do another one sometime in the future. So feel free to stick around if you're interested, and either way, thanks again to everyone for participating! Running this has really been awesome, and I loved seeing everyone's thoughts on all the different characters. Until next time! :)

Highlights

Character with the most votes across all polls:

Frederica (200 votes)

Poll with the most votes:

Cats vs. Frederica (78 total votes)

Character with the fewest votes across all polls:

Zigmunt: (1 vote) tied with

Kamsell: (1 vote)

Poll with the fewest votes:

Frani vs. Thalas (21 votes)

Biggest smackdown:

Zigmunt vs. Orlaea (1 vote/41 votes or a 2.4%/97.6% difference)

Polls that ended in a tie:

Benedict vs. Orlaea

Jens vs. Julio

Honorable Mention:

Roland! As I was going through the numbers, I noticed that despite not making it to the semifinals let alone the finals, Roland earned third in terms of total votes, and 3/4 of Roland's polls that he was in were included in the top 5 most-voted polls. In terms of votes per poll, Roland was the most voted-on character.

All Results

All characters and their cumulative votes across all polls:

Link to spreadsheet with full results

All polls and their number of total votes:

Link to spreadsheet with full results

[frostedturquoise]

Still cant believe Waifu Bait Fandom(tm) i knew about when it was newish but all i saw was people arguing over -you guessed it- waifus or That One Guy or That One Kid Most Seemed To Have A Hate Boner For For Some Reason in the background of my internet experience Blissfully unaware times as idk a nine year old probably then for the entirety of my last two years of schooling then four years of dnd crew time after that just Blissfully unaware most were references to Same Thing due to section one. Vaguely get recommended it some time during the period of section two but forget the name and is too embarassed to ask because your cousin knows you well enough that he said in full confidence 'you will probably like it, even if not the whole thing' but recommended 'the anime not the games because they are kind of shit but wont stop me if i chose to do that' (he is woefully dyslexic so finding out they were visual novel makes a hell of a lot of sense for why he seemed allergic to them)

Accidentally use a character with the same/similar name as in one of the spin off things and your 'please dont make fin of the similarity this OC is related to one i played in a prior game' was taken as a bold faced lie to play X character but fly under the radar and my cousin after the session said i didn't have to do that because it wouldn't of been the first time someone did with an anime character.

Turns out there is TWO of them and he genuinely thought i was pulling a sneaky because of the 'no werewolf policy' The Werewolf Gene Brothers(tm) wound up just being normal people, even if my cousin admitted it was a shame because dragons were cool. Finally was confused enough to admit i had no idea what he was talking about and later admitted i was too embarrassed to ask what the name of the thing he recced like three years before was.

And then three or four years later one of my brothers exes brings it up. intend to follow up.

forgets.

another year later she brings it up again because she needeed someone to hype about something with but it wasnt anime specific this time just Character Feels(tm) so i pull a wiki out Then three months later find a thing related to one of the things related to the thing. Then a year later after all that time of one foot in the door it is officially '??????' This post brought to you in vague that the realisation ht me while sorting shit out for a future dnd game but since its vaguely related to mythos shit saying 'fate' so many times was going to make me feel like three broken records playig at once because my life feels like a joke because i recognise like 20% of all the old memes just because i was in the direct personal orbit of a group of people who lived said fandom IRL for six years and thought i knew-knew due to a accidental on point analysis moment carrying over in everyones emery meets the direct rec meets the fact that i just rolled with the punches because i was blissfully unaware 50% of the meme references were for the same thing (it was just lie browsing the internet but IRL conversation of shit your not interested in but exposed to anyway) and finding out how much was the same this was just A bit like 'hey. wait. what.' lmao

Unfortunately any of those guys i still talk to were/are Waifu Guys (yes even the ex) so hard that i feel bad when i playfully take the piss out of anything.

And just to think half of my accidential investment started with (1) crack ship and who ever thought the stupid idea i had while waiting for crumpets to cook because at the time i thought one character had 'stuck up prissy bastard cat energy' or some shit while waiting for crumpets to cook at like 3am and my brain thought it would be funny for said character as cat person to impose themselves on the others living space ala 'stray cat moves in style' while knowing jack shit outside second hand info and now i unironically think i accidentally stumbled onto something because the more i learn the more said ship Makes Fucking Sense and i feel like a disgruntled preschooler about it because 20% of my current self afflicted dilemma was to get it out of my system search the pairing up and find jack shit.

Always wild to have surprise fandoms happen when fandom engagement energy + social energy in general is at an low. Then you feel bad due to new distraction vs many unfinished fics.

this post brought to you by i need to be awake in three hours and have an eight hour long outing soon after that point and i still cannot sleep and was Consumed With Thoughts(tm) over how this chain of coincidences feels oddly like a cosmic joke.

[mhorkya]

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spent the last few hours beating the code into an actually usable shape, and the very last thing i saw before i really had to leave was a proper response whew