Fp Usage Survey-New

[Amyj]

Hello all,

 

I had previously posted a poll that was to be used for school. Unfortunately, that poll did not provide the correct data for my purpose.

 

As I have learned that the poll option on this forum are a bit too limited for my purpose, I have created a poll on a separate website, survey monkey, instead. I apologize for any inconvenience and would greatly appreciate it if you could spend a few minutes answering these questions here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NYV5L65

Thank you.

[KBeezie]

What is your "purpose" ?

[estie1948]

Amyj, I took your survey. I hope it is helpful. Good luck with whatever this survey is for!

 

-David.

[The Blue Knight]

Done, Good Luck with it!

[a.zy.lee]

84 percent of fountain pen users are male! Didn't expect such a vast majority. Also 24 percent are aged 10-19. Interesting results.

[Icywolfe]

What? "Aesthetic appeal"

 

I just imagined people being snobby.

Edited November 19, 2014 by Icywolfe

[shawndp]

Took the survey too - the unexpected twist was I didn't expect to see 47% bias for $100+ pens with a Pilot / Pelikan bias for favourite brand. Good luck with your school project!

[pmhudepo]

Done! Best of luck with your project.

[rockydoggy]

Just completed the survey. It'd be interesting to see how other factors might play in--eg, income level, region, age at which one started using fountain pens, and whether one's parents used them. In any case, please post the results when you're finished collecting your data.

[alc3261]

Come on the women on FPN, fill in the survey!! There are a lot of us

[Amyj]

Thank you to all the well-wishers and everyone who has responded so far. That is one reason I love this forum, everyone is so eager to help another out.

 

What is your "purpose" ?

Purpose? No other than to find out the distribution of fountain pen users on this forum.... Or at least the distribution of the respondents...

Oh, erm... I just realized that you might be referring to the purpose I mentioned in the topic post. In that case, it's just that I needed to be able to collect the data in a way that I could make a comparison (such as male/female, etc.) of the data...

 

84 percent of fountain pen users are male! Didn't expect such a vast majority. Also 24 percent are aged 10-19. Interesting results.

I was surprised to see the results the first time through as well. It seems that the type of users on this forum has changed drastically in the past 1-2 years... I remember when I joined, the site had mostly old folks with a handful of college students thrown in.

 

What? "Aesthetic appeal"

 

I just imagined people being snobby.

I apologize, I guess I could have worded it better... Thought it was good enough when I wrote it. I meant the aesthetic appeal of the pen itself, not the aesthetic appeal it gave the user

 

Just completed the survey. It'd be interesting to see how other factors might play in--eg, income level, region, age at which one started using fountain pens, and whether one's parents used them. In any case, please post the results when you're finished collecting your data.

Definitely will post the results

 

Interesting indeed, though if I included those in the survey, it would be much longer than I need. In either case, I only need to make three comparisons. I hope you don't mind if I mention those factors in my conclusion when I write up my report.

[Amyj]

Sorry, just bumping this to the top...

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I love the selection bias on question 10.

[Amyj]

I love the selection bias on question 10.

It's great, isn't it? I've been looking at the data the whole day and asking myself why.

[inkstainedruth]

I'm afraid my answers need to be expanded on in a way that wasn't an option on the survey. For instance, my favorite pen is a Parker 51, but I actually prefer piston fillers in general.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Anirban4u]

took the survey. Looks like Sheaffers are not loved much these days. At least the survey says so.

Yes, I understand pilots, they are WOW!

[pendexter]

Just completed your survey. The one thing I noticed was the extreme bias towards $100+ pens. In terms of your post survey assessment, you might want to note that your selection criteria may have been off on that question. To create a good survey, you want to gain as much much insight as possible with ever single query. With the question that was posted, you may as well have just asked whether you like pens that more or less than $100, as it would have given you as much statically relevant information. If it was rather 0-50, 50-100, 100-200, 200-300, 300-500, 500-1000, 1000+, that may have given you more insight as to what the respondents use. The reason I chose those numbers is that I think that they would give you something in the ballpark of a normal statistical bell curve, with the peak in the 100-200 range...

 

On the other hand, there are often times when you won't know what the representative sample will be like until you run an initial survey. So from that perspective, you did gather some insightful information, namely that your initial perception about typical fountain pen costs was very off. That will help you refine your questions for your next survey.

 

This is interesting stuff. There are definitely a few things aspects of school that I do miss... but only a few

Edited November 20, 2014 by pendexter

[dgreenwood116]

The usage within the age of twenties depresses me. I've yet to see someone using one within my college, unfortunately.

Edited November 20, 2014 by dgreenwood116

[Amyj]

Just completed your survey. The one thing I noticed was the extreme bias towards $100+ pens. In terms of your post survey assessment, you might want to note that your selection criteria may have been off on that question. To create a good survey, you want to gain as much much insight as possible with ever single query. With the question that was posted, you may as well have just asked whether you like pens that more or less than $100, as it would have given you as much statically relevant information. If it was rather 0-50, 50-100, 100-200, 200-300, 300-500, 500-1000, 1000+, that may have given you more insight as to what the respondents use. The reason I chose those numbers is that I think that they would give you something in the ballpark of a normal statistical bell curve, with the peak in the 100-200 range...

 

On the other hand, there are often times when you won't know what the representative sample will be like until you run an initial survey. So from that perspective, you did gather some insightful information, namely that your initial perception about typical fountain pen costs was very off. That will help you refine your questions for your next survey.

 

This is interesting stuff. There are definitely a few things aspects of school that I do miss... but only a few

Thank you for the feedback. I'll take that into account the next time I do something like this, I just didn't expect so many responses to be over $100, and even if I did, I had no idea how to restate the intervals so I would have a better response. Perhaps I should do a lot more research next time... I thought I had a decent understanding, but apparently not:3

[coredump]

So apparently money = quality for FPs right? (since the pen that most people really like to use are their expensive ones).

 

Or they just suck, but people use them because (bleep) it I paid $ 500 on this (bleep) and will use it even if it sucks!