simblr Reader Preferences Survey Results
Hi everyone! I’ve put together all the data from the survey. Thank you to all of you who participated! And a huge shout out to my wonderful and loving husband, without whose help I would not have been able to organize all of this data ♥
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the content in the written responses. To limit bias, I have only omitted responses which were directly hateful (i.e. “call outs”) to specific bloggers.
Below are links to all of the written responses to the open-ended questions. I received several hundred answers, so while it’s quite a bit to slog through, I do encourage everyone to read through at least a few pages. You can access all of the answers here: Open-ended Responses (PDF)
Or you can find them sorted by individual question below the cut.
Hello! Before I start telling about my opinions about this, I really don’t know if you had any help from people in TS3 and TS2 communities to get it circulated around all the sims communities so apologies if I had no idea. However, I’d like to point out that these statistics seem biased (also 439 people isn’t enough). It’s not realistic that 1% of the people prefer to read only stories made from TS2 and it obviously shows that that the survey barely got to TS2 community.
We did learn about statistical bias in secondary schools and that we are not supposed to take survey in one location. For instance, if you asked people at a coffee shop about their favourite drinks, most of answers are likely to be ‘coffee’ or anything similar to that and it wouldn’t reflect the whole population in this town. It’s advisable to take surveys in different locations. You can do the same thing online – like I said, maybe you can have help from people who are in TS3 and TS2 communities to spread the survey.
And here’s an advice for writers out there, don’t ever listen to what genre you should write about (obviously, this statistics isn’t telling you what to do but some people seem to use this as a guide). So, don’t write for your followers or for notes, write what you want to write, or you will most likely to write crap. Feel free to write about Sci-Fi if that’s what you really want to. 🙂
I made a survey once, it wasn’t about reader preferences, but about their favorite game, and the sims 2 is the favorite one, followed by the sims 3 and far behind, the sims 4 ( the sims 1 and the sims 4 are very far behind, but it’s isn’t a surprise because the sims 1 is quite old and the sims medieval is different ).
I posted it everywhere ( tumblr, facebook, French and English groups , forums , French and English ones ).
About your survey, I agree with some voters about the grammar and spelling, but a few mistakes are acceptable, I read some stories with misspelled words, and they are great, even better than some stories with a perfect grammar and perfect spelling.
However ten misspelled words in a sentence isn’t acceptable…
For the pictures… I agree beautiful pictures are a lot better than blurry ones, but it depends of the computer, low graphic card = bad pictures.
Some voters are a bit rude.
In my case I’m illiterate, then that explains why nobody will like my stories.
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