let's stumble towards success and pack some snacks for little breaks

[Poll #1737224]

People keep lamenting how everyone's moved to Facebook and no one reads LJ anymore, but I haven't really noticed a significant drop in posting/comments. Of course, the people who post and comment aren't necessarily a true sample of those who read, so:

[Poll #1721260]

EDIT: Well, it's been less than half an hour since I posted this and I've already gotten fifteen responses to this poll. I'm pretty satisfied with that as an answer.

[Poll #1648616]

If other people do it his way too, I guess I won't pick on him about it.

[Poll #1591831]

[Poll #1547370]

I read in my psychology book about a study of three different groups in Northern California: seventh-graders, eleventh-graders, and college students. All of the subjects endorsed the abstract principle of freedom of religion. They were then posed the question, "What if a particular religion refused to allow low-income people to become priests?" 94% of seventh-graders, 19% of eleventh-graders, and 32% of college students responded that they would not support freedom of religion under those circumstances.

The book discussed this study in conjunction with the theory that children use more inductive thinking and adolescents are more deductive. The idea is that younger children use knowledge of facts and concrete experiences to make decisions (Piaget's concrete operational thought stage), while adolescents are able to think hypothetically and thus are more likely to abide by an abstract principle such as freedom of religion (formal operational thought). College students are moving into postformal thought, learning to combine subjective and objective thinking to come to a conclusion.

As I said when I posted the poll, it's hardly scientific, mainly because most of the people who read my journal are either already in or transitioning to the postformal stage of thought. I actually didn't realize how many of you guys are over 25 until I posted this.

I added the question about race because I thought that people who were in favor of freedom of religion when it comes to personal choice (i.e. poor people can decide whether they want to join that religion or not) might be against it when it starts to affect people who are not at all affiliated with the religion. I was surprised to find that not a single person agreed to one and not the other.

So, the results:
No one under 10 responded.
1 person in the 11-13 age bracket responded, and did not support freedom of religion under the specified circumstances.
7 people in the 14-18 age bracket responded, and 4 did not support freedom of religion under the specified circumstances.
8 people in the 19-24 age bracket responded, and 4 did not support freedom of religion under the specified circumstances.
21 people in the 25+ age bracket responded, and 5 did not support freedom of religion under the specified circumstances.

Thoughts?

Hi! I need the birthdays (just month and day, no year necessary) of 25 people before tomorrow morning, for my statistics class. Take ten seconds to give me a hand, please?

[Poll #955868]

Here's the slash survey. It's for my Sex Roles and Sexuality individual presentation, the topic of which is "slash fan fiction." You can respond in a comment, or you can e-mail it to me at my username @sbcglobal.net.

You don't have to be a typical slasher to fill this out (are any of us typical?) but I would like to get responses from people who write and read slash on a regular basis. I'm looking for quotes here, not statistics, so please be as wordy as you like, and if you go off on a tangent that's not related to the question, that's completely fine. Anonymous responses are also perfectly okay. And if there are any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering, just leave them blank.

If you want to point other slashers you know in the direction of this survey, I would very much appreciate it.

( Slash survey )

EDIT: It has been pointed out that some clarification of terms may be helpful.
Canon: the original story on which a fanfic is based. When you say something is "canon," that means it happened in the original book/movie/whatever.
Fandom: a fanfic universe (examples: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean).
Femmeslash: slash fiction involving a lesbian relationship.
RPS: Real Person Slash; fanfic about actual people, usually celebrities.
Squick: something you refuse to read or write because it disgusts you or makes you uncomfortable.
OTP: One True Pairing; the pair of characters you write most often or prefer over other pairings.

xthread posted these .mp3s, along with a description of what they are. I am extremely curious as to how many of you can hear them. Both are direct downloads, not links.

The first sound.
The second sound.

[Poll #740436]

xthread's post is here.

EDIT: Eight people have responded so far. The answers are of very mixed ages for the first sound, but almost perfectly divided age-wise as predicted for the second (apart from one teenager that can't hear it). Fascinating.

EDIT RELOADED: Now the teen who couldn't hear the second one changed her answer. And another teen can hear it, and two more adults can't.