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Joined: Oct 22, 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Peoria, AZ
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: The Great Poser User Survey of 2006
Hi all.
A couple years ago, I conducted a survey that was basically intended to get an idea of what everyone was using. I have, since then, expanded on the survey, and yet I'm still keeping the original intent, which is to provide efective information to all the users and merchants of Poser and D|S possible.
The purpose of this survey is to give the users, the sites, the companies, and the merchants that are all tied together in this community a baseline from which to draw as they move forward. It isn't about features in the various programs, but instead focuses on what we, as individuals, do with our stuff, and what sorts of people we are as a group.
This survey will be run from today (January 1st, 2006) through January 31st, 2006. Once the period has closed, I will remove the survey and prepare the results.
The survey helps Customers by Telling merchants:
What we want
Who we want it for
What we'll do with it
Where we'll do it at
The survey helps merchants by giving them the above, plus freeing them from trying to get information that they cannot get any other way other than guessing or laboriously going through the galleries, forum posts, and asking private questions that will usually not get answered.
The Survey is:
Anonymous
Honor based
Opt in only
Not limited to anyone -- everyone is free to fill it out and anyone can request the results.
The information gathered won't be able to identify you, specifically, in any way shape or form -- not to me, not to you, and not to anyone else. The Survey asks some questions that may seem somewhat personal:
age range
income range
language
gender
The Survey results will be freely available in raw data form (csv - comma delimited) to any and all interested parties, including sites and companies such as DAZ, Renderosity, E-Frontier, and others. Results will be made available 30 days after the close of the survey period or earlier, depending on available time for collating the information.
It is my personal hope that *everyone* will fill out a survey, of course. Please fill one out -- it will help the community to get something that there's no really efficient method for obtaining since the informationin it is the sort that's typically guarded fiercely.
There has been a kind soul who has done a spanish language translation that will be available shortly. I will add that to this thread when it becomes available.
I will also take suggestions for additional information to collect on the next survey, which is tentatively scheduled for June 1st, 2006.
Joined: Oct 22, 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Peoria, AZ
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: The Great Poser User Survey of 2006
lol
Thanks for answering, both of you
Raunchyminds wasn't in the list, but Ernyoka kicked me for it already, lol.
It will be on the follow up in Jne for certain.
THe non human figures weren't examined closely this round, but, again, there will be some strong examination of them and more animals/etc on the next round.
This is also why SA's great stuff wasn't included -- wasn't meant as a slap or anything, just gotta do this stuff in small steps.
Hee hee -- I have thought of a lot more (and been reminded of even more yet, lol) -- but I'm holding back still...
as for transgendered -- usually you are heading towards one or the other, so that's typically the one sought.
I willmost definitely post the results publically and make sure the csv is available to everyone -- this isn't about one company or anythign -- its about us as a community, and that's really important to me as someone who likes to watch....
Joined: Oct 22, 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Peoria, AZ
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: The Great Poser User Survey of 2006
In around 6 hours or so, I will be closing this first Great Poser User Survey down.
Alhtough my workstation is temporarily disabled, I still expect to have the results publically available within a couple days, and to start making occasional postings about some of the data from those results shortly afterwards.
The link for the results will be posted here when they are available.
I want to publically thank all the people who have helped to make this first large scale survey an overwhelming success. RevManfred, Leanna, Casette, Lairemjd, and the sites of Renderosity, Animotions, Sixus1, and DAZ3D have all contributed to the survey's goals of creating a sort of "open source" poll method that's of value to everyone.
I owe an apology to the spanish speaking members of the community as well -- due to the failure of my main system, I was never able to effectively finish setting up the spanish translation. I will make sure that it is absolutely perfect before the next one.
On June 1st, of 2006, barring something horrific happening to me, I will post the next survey, which will be a bit more intense, and will reflect adaptations requested and noted in the process of getting this one out.
When I started this, I was hoping for 768 responses. As I write this message prior to posting at several sites I have 735.
For those of you who are familiar with the way that polling works, and know me, you can likely expect that the survey results will have an error margin of +/- 14%. I can't make it any tighter and retain anonymity, which is one of the most important aspects of this first survey. With this number of responses, however, the survey numbers are more than effective for what I'm estimating to be a combined userbase potential of roughly 1 and a half million people, of which 37% are active in the community overall.
The statistics, incidentally, can be applied with the same level of accuracy to a userbase roughly 10 times that size.
My sources for the size of the userbase are published reports from prior ownership and some third party information from a company I have worked with previously in other surveys.
I have been criticized for requiring some demographic information that is commonly optional in the survey. My reasons for this requirement are that this is the first poser survey of this order done across such a wide swath of the community and to such a depth. This is a necessary requirement, imo, for this first survey, in order to establish what is usually referred to as baseline data, or commonly called "the givens". Going forward, that data can be adjusted and corrected as additional surveys (which I plan to present once every six months) are done. But without a baseline of information, conducting a serious survey of us -- that is, we, the people who use the darn thing -- would be useless for any truly meaningful purpose.
Surveys are done over a broad range of time inorder to build up a dataset that has tremnedous reliability. That's what I'm attempting to do here, and I'm doing something that I'm also occasionally (and strictly in private) chucked upside the head for doing: making the data free.
I'd like to say it's my way of "giving back" to the community. But no, that'd be wrong. I give back by occasionally being an annoyance to moderators, having fun with people I like to play wordgames with in the forums, and occasionally answering a question or two, as well as providing yet another damnable site to try and remember to visit for cool stuff.
I'd like to say I'm doing it out of the goodness of my heart, but well, nope. I'm makign information that's typically something you pay a few thousand dollars for available to anyone who wants it becuase, well, I'm crazy. I happen to think that it is the best way to do things right now. It is in my best interests to see the community grow and develop and expand, and my experience tells me that this information is necessary to achieve that end.
And then I'm doing it because at this point, after so many years int he community, I pretty much know someone I like a lot at damn near every site out there. And I like to treat my friends well. Its a failing, I know. I'm working on it.
The June survey will be presented in a similar format, but be paginated, and, after some serious thought, will use cookies for session information. It will still retain anonymity for the end user, as one of the goals for this is to retain that critical aspect. By paginating and saving session information, the survey can be done over a greater amount of time, and will "remember" your answers -- it just won't remember you.
From some of the data in this survey, you can expect the sites listed, figures listed, and programs listed to all increase. You can expect more detailed questions about the nature of products in specific (mesh density, texture sizes, etc). You can expect a more focused, but also somewhat more involved survey. Its a tradeoff, and making the call is never easy.
Its not possible for me to fully and accurately answer all of the questions I've recieved about why I chose this site or that site, or why I left this figure out but kept that one, or even why the lists aren't all the same in this survey (there's reason to all of it, but it's rarely immediately obvious). I can say that no omission was intentional in the sense of wanting to "snub" someone or purposely leave anyone out.
Thank you, to all of you. Each and every person who filled out a survey has earned my personal gratitude. I hope that you will be willing to share agin with me come June, and I promise that the rewards then will be much, much more exciting and varied
Joined: Oct 22, 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Peoria, AZ
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: The Great Poser User Survey of 2006
Hi everyone.
First off, I'm sorry for the delay here.
I now have the survey resuls in a pretty clean and database friendly format, but I'm presently unable to get them into a packaged format that will be readily available due to a teensy tiny issue: My main system is dead.
I'm working on getting it back into operation, but I'm hitting a snag that's slowing that down, despite a great deal of sympathetic support I appreciate greatly.
I may only be able to provide the data in a sort of "broken down" format if this issue isn't solved soon, but, in any case, I will absolutely release the results in one format or another no later than the 14th of the month (Arizona Statehood day!).
Here are the results, presented in tab delimited format ready for setting up in a database.
Zip file.
Some observations:
Poser 6 is now the preferred program by over 50% of the users.
Poser 5 is number 2
DAZ studio is number 3 (but not by much, so it's a toss up).
All other versions of poser consist of less than 10% of the preferred userbase, combined. This is inclusive of Poser 3, 4, and Propack.
Victoria 3 is the most preferred figure.
Victoria 3 is the figure for which the most is still wanted.
Victoria 3 is the figure for which there is too much in the marketplace.
Aiko is the #2 figure.
There is a HUGE demand for Male clothing for all the figures.
The least popular figures are Don and Judy.
There's a tremendous amount of data available in these results. GOing through it requires patience, time and effort, as well as an interesting understanding of the way things work.
There are 609 effective responses in the final break, and the final accuracy level is approximately +/- 7.3412%.
The next survey results will be presented in a db style format.
THank you to all who repsonded and participated -- the survey is an incredible snapshot of the community as a whole, and should begin the work of expanding botht he community and the market and enabe us all to start seeing things we really want.
Thanks again to everyone. I'm off to see what I can do about actually *using* this info, lol....
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