Sociology Experimant poll: Repost without the 14 threads

[DocRobert]

Well, that didn't work out well. Here is a new thing for the polls. They will all be in one comglomeration here, and there won't exactly be a great awesome interactive poll with results and the such, but, you'll have to just answer the polls by giving the answer to them.


So, here we go.

This is going to be one huge poll about the forum here on Twoism. I am doing a study for my sociology class, and I want to be able to get some results, enough to make some observations. Once this is done, I will post the results, and what you can assume through sociological imagination, and logic by interpreting the data.


1. Have you ever had a strange expierience while listening to BoC? If you have, or kind of have, please tell of it in your results at the bottom, because I need to know what kind of experience it was.

1. No.
2. Kind of....
3. Yes, defintely.

2. Do you use drugs for recreation?

1. No.
2. I only drink alcohol/smoke
3. Yes, only a little
4. Yes, I am an addict.

3. What do you do for fun?

1. I don't do anything for fun
2. I do fun things/laugh
3. I laugh
4. Listen to music
5. Read a book
6. Watch a movie
7. Watch television
8. Make art/music/write fiction etc.
9. Surf the web
10. Write non-fiction
11. Tour a museam
12. Hang with friends
13. Think/meditate
14. I do something for fun that is not listed here

4.What job do you have?

1. I do not have a job
2. I have a desk/office related job
3. I am a person who works with physical labour
4. I am a doctor/nurse
5. I am a student
6. I am a professional artist (music, graphic, etc)
7. I am a starving artist (music, graphic, etc)
8. I have a job not listed here.
9. I am a stay-at-home mom/dad

5. What group or clique do you identify with?

1. I am not a part of a particular group.
2. Geeks
3. Gamers
4. Preps
5. Jocks
6. Punks
7. Werido's
8. Anime-Lovers
9. Internet Users
10. Artists
11. Smart People

6. Are you Male or Female?

1. I am male
2. I am female
3. I am hermaphroditic

7. Do you listen to music while web-surfing? If yes, what is it?

1. No, I do not listen to music while web-sufing.
2. Yes: Anything that I feel like
3. Yes: Electronica
4. Yes: Rap
5. Yes: Boards-ish music
6. Yes: Rock
7. Yes: Pop
8. Yes: New Age
9. Yes: I will only listen to Boards of Canada while I web-surf

8. What religion or philosophy do you identify with?

1. I am an Atheist
2. I am a Nihilist
3. I am an Orthodox Christian (Catholocism, Baptism, Methodist, etc)
4. I am an Un-orthodox Crhistian (Community Of Christ, Mormon, Restoration, etc)
5. I am an Orthodox Jew
6. I am a Reform Jew
7. I am a Pagan
8. I am Agnostic
9. I am Confuciousist
10. I am Bhuddist
11. I am Satanist
12. I am a "New-Ager"
13. I am a Hindu
14. I am of a relgion not listed here
15. I believe in all Religions
16. I am a mixture of Religions, but not all

9. What kind of books do you read?

1. I don't read books
2. Anything that I feel like reading at the moment
3. Science/Educational Books (not textbooks)
4. Fantasy
5. Sci-Fi
6. Drama
7. Harlequin Romance
8. Humorus
9. Classics
10. Best-Sellers
11. Non-Fiction
12. Conspiracy
13. Textbooks
14. Instruction Manuals

10.What kind of music do you listen to?

1. I don't listen to music
2. EVERYTHING (even that really weird stuff)
3. Usually everthing, but I have just recently discovered electronica
4. New Age
5. Rock
6. Electronica (The smoother variety, like techno, trance, and chill)
7. Hard-Core Electronica (IDM, Gltch, etc.)
8. Boards-ish Music
9. Rap
10. Hip-Hop
11. Country
12. Psychedelic (Post-Psychedelic Prog, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Folk, etc.)
13. Top 20-List

11. How much music do you listen to per day?

1. <1 HPD
2. 1-2 HPD
3. 3-6 HPD
4. 7-12 HPD
5. 13+ HPD

12. What kind of movies do you watch?

1. I'll watch anything if it's good.
2. Artsy Movies (Across The Universe, The Wall, Mouloun Rouge, etc.)
3. Oscar Winners
4. Comedies
5. Action
6. Sci-Fi
7. Fantasy
8. Horror
9. Drama/ Romantic Comedy
10. Documentaries
11. Music-Based Movies (The Wall, Yellow Submarine, Interstella 5555, etc)
12. Book-Based Movies

13. What do you watch on TV?

1. I don't watch TV
2. Educational Shows (Discovery, History, Travel, etc)
3. Humorus Shows (Robot Chicken, Comedy Central, etc.)
4. Television Dramas
5. Reality Shows
6. Soap Operas

14. How much TV do you watch per day?

1. <1 hour per day
2. 1-2 hours per day
3. 3-6 hours per day
4. 7-12 hours per day
5. 13+ hours per day

Thanks you all for your participation, and thank you for taking the time out of your life for this. Another notation of appreciation to those who participated already, and I would love it if you could do this again.

I am sorry about my last attempt with a thread for each of these.

Here is something that could make your day a little easier to copy and paste, oh, and when you are answering, just copy and paste your result to the corresponding number.

Thank you!

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[harpoon dodger]

Sooo I didn't know if you could choose multiple options for some answers..if that's the case just use my first answer I guess?

1. Kind of..I was on some chemicals one night with a friend and while we were listening to Happy Cycling I saw a black hole just open up in front of me all pixelated-like, then disappear a moment later. It was super-cool, and very weird.
2. Yes, I am an addict..well no, weed/hash for sure but I've tried a wide array of other really cool things
3. Hang with friends
4. I am a student
5. Artist (musician)/Weirdos
6. Male
7. Yes, anything I feel like
8. Agnostic/Existentialism
9. Science/Educational, Humour, Classics, Sci-Fi, Non-Fiction
10. EVERYTHING (even that really weird stuff)
11. 3-6 HPD
12. I'll watch anything if it's good
13. Television Dramas? (Fringe, Lost), Humourous, Educational
14. 3-6 HPD

[DocRobert]

No, that's okay, you may post multiple results for one question.


NOTE: ALL POLL-TAKERS MAY USE MULTIPLE RESULTS

I'll also take the poll because I consider myself as part of this community.

1. Yes I have, and my experience has to be my Skyliner story, and have
2. No
3. I do Fun things
4. I am a student
5. I am not a part of a particular group
6. Male
7. I fell like listening to anything while web-surfing
8. I am a mixture of Religions (Christianity, Bhuddism, and Hinduism[in that order])
9. I read anything that I feel like reading
10 EVERYTHING (even that really weird stuff)
11. 3-6/7-12 / 13+ (depends on the day)
12. I'll watch anything if it's good/artsy movies
13. Educational Shows/ Humorus
14. <1 hour per day/1-2 hours per day

[Aesthetics]

I helped you a bit in making this topic a bit easier for members to answer.. maybe this will give you a bit more response.

Some answers are missing so I left them blank.

1.a
2.b
3.d,n
4.h
5.a
6.a
7.b
8.
9.a
10.b
11.c
12.a
13.
14.a

[Mexicola]

1. a) No. No alien meetings, no hexagon suns appearing before me and David Koresh yet to appear on the Ouja board. Nowt.
2. b) alcohol only, and frankly even that has taken a dip lately.
3. o) almost all of the above. You missed out walking/outdoor activities!
4. b) desk job in insurance. Zzzzzzzz.
5. a)
6. a)
7. usually a) but not always.
8. a) I never bought into religion. It never answered any of the questions I had/have.
9. b) but mainly travel literature (both in terms of travel guides and also travel stories). Some thrillers.
10. e, g, h, plus drone and classical. Can't stand chart music, R+B, Moby...
11. Varies. Average b)
12. a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i (but not rom-coms unless I'm forced to), j, l.
13. b, c, d, plus sport.
14. b) again, it varies.

[A_Northern_Soul]

1. a - none at all
2. b. just alcohol
3. all except h. & i. really. plus walking etc
4. b.
5. a.
6. a.
7. b.
8. h. at a push
9. c./ i./ k. mainly, but allsorts really
10. b., probably
11. c. (lower end of the scale)
12. a.
13. b./ c. mainly
14. probably b.

[turquoise70]

1. a. I've had a lot of very profound emotional experiences while listening to BoC, but nothing that couldn't have happened were I listening to some other really awesome music.

2. d. I don't actually consider myself an addict, but smoking weed every day is more than "a little"

3. b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, l, and m

4. e. i'm about to graduate from college then after that i will probably enroll in tech school for some kind of IT program

5. a. i identify with a number of these groups to a degree but after high school all of those categories kind of dissolved for me, and i just became 'a person'. similarly, you couldn't (not without being intentionally simplistic and insulting) assign any of those names to any of the groups of friends i hang out with. i am fortunate to be immersed in such a group of unique and intriguing people, even if sometimes i feel like i'm a visiting biologist living in their den and studying them.

6. a.

7. b., my mood calls for all kinds of different stuff while i'm on the internet

8. l.

9. b, e, h, i, n

10. b

11. c

12. a - except replace "if it's good" with "if i'm in the mood". it doesn't have to be good.

13. a

14. a (or N/A)

docrobert i must say this quiz has some really unorthodox groups of answers, a bit different from what i would have expected. it's not bad, i kind of like it, but what's the deal? also, were you just curious or is this going to become part of a state-funded study on BoC freaks?

[DocRobert]

Hey! Alright! thanks for doing this stuff guys! There's not a whole lot more that I can do other than say that I need at least 4 more participants for this, and I will go ahead and put the data in an oven. (not to destroy it, of course)

[TheSilenceEchoes]

1. B (experience of reliving precious moments of my childhood, some music has that power (Bibio and Thomas Newman as well), it's like the same effect a familiar scent can have)
2. B
3. DEHIJL
4. GH
5. J
6. B
7. BE
8. C
9. DFI
10. H (this question needed more genres to choose from)
11. D
12. BCGIKL
13. A
14. A

[Vexille]

1. Kind of....not really worth mentioning.
2. No, I only drink with meals. Sometimes a beer to sit back and relax.
3. b, d, e, i, l, n (specifically bike, run, read, game, socialize, music.)
4. b
5. I dunno, been called a yuppie before. But I am me, I don't try to identify with some 'group' to fit in because that isn't me. This q seems aimed at high school aged kids.
6. a
7. b but mostly electronic, some rock. (I guess you could say some boards-ish music but I never think of it that way.)
8. c I guess, I grew up that way and don't really practice. It is not that significant for me.
9. b, d, e, historical fiction and military history topics.
10. f, g, l (again I don't seek out music because it is Boards-ish, but I listen to stuff that is similar by coincidence like Christ., Decal or Gridlock just because they are in similar genres)
11. c
12. don't actively watch movies unless friends suggest it.
13. ^
14. less than 1h a week. Affected by if friends are watching.

[DocRobert]

5. I dunno, been called a yuppie before. But I am me, I don't try to identify with some 'group' to fit in because that isn't me. This q seems aimed at high school aged kids.

Well, I had this question in here because it does apply to high schoolers, but then it also partains to anyone, because, you may try to admit it, but people still hang out in cliques.

In all actuality, there is even a clique that doesn't want to be in a clique.

[turquoise70]

i think you've confused cliques with some other social construct? i thought 'clique' usually referred to a tightly-knit small group of people who characteristically hang out together and to some extent regulate against outsider activity, but aren't necessarily associated with any personality type or interest? i think maybe you meant 'subculture'?

[Vexille]

Well they are similar. But I don't think you can easily label a small group of friends with such generalized terms. Like me I pull interests from many of the categories listed. Guess I made it more complex than it needed to be.

[DocRobert]

i think you've confused cliques with some other social construct? i thought 'clique' usually referred to a tightly-knit small group of people who characteristically hang out together and to some extent regulate against outsider activity, but aren't necessarily associated with any personality type or interest? i think maybe you meant 'subculture'?

Well they are similar. But I don't think you can easily label a small group of friends with such generalized terms. Like me I pull interests from many of the categories listed. Guess I made it more complex than it needed to be.

Well, the problem is that a small group of friends comes together somehow. There could be multiple interests, not only in the group but in the person about why they are there, but there is some common interest that almost everyone holds for a thriving social atmosphere, such as a small group of friends.

Yet, a clique is any group where every person has an interest in the same sort of thing. I would call Twoism Forums a clique because we are all coming together to talk about Boards. So, I hope that helps you out a little bit.

Anyway, I have been seeing some patterns in the results already. The more that I look at the results from people taking the quiz, the more and more that I see this forum (to my previous assumption) is a counter-culture clique. This means that the forum defies many set values and social standards set by normal english speaking cultures.

One reason is because Boards Of Canada music encourages emotional freedom, higher echelon and psychedelic thought/imagination, and nostalgia. These things are generally not found in normal culture and could be values of our counter-culuture.

[turquoise70]

i still disagree with your interpretation of the word 'clique'.

[Joebot Kill]

1. b
2. c (i smoke a lot and do other drugs less frequently)
3. d, e, f, h, i, l
4. right now - e, hopefully f in the future
5. i guess j
6. a
7. b
8. h
9. b but it usually ends up being e
10. b but mostly forms of electronic
11. d
12. a... i dont know about your choices for the b category but eh.
13. b
14. a