January Poll Results – Now with Graphs

Posted by Stropp on February 1, 2008

Yes. You read that right. We now have graphs. Too cool eh?

The January poll asked the question: As a MMO Gamer, I am currently playing or not playing a MMO and reading x blogs.

Overall, 25 people responded to the poll with the answers broken down in the following graph.

 

The biggest results were those reader who played a MMO and read either 1 to 5 or more than 10 blogs. The next highest was bloggers who also played.

What we wanted to really see in this poll was how many of you read blogs while playing a MMO. The idea was that MMO players not currently playing a MMO would be the ones reading blogs. People actually playing would have less time to read blogs since they’d always be in game.

As you can see from the Playing vs Not Playing graph below, the majority of MMO blog readers are involved in playing a game at the same time.

 

Furthermore, the majority of respondents actually read more than 10 blogs. There was one major assumption in this however, that the blogger respondents all read more than 10 blogs. When I created the poll I decided to just have bloggers playing and not playing questions. Otherwise there would have been a much larger number of options to choose from and the poll would have been unwieldy. I think that assumption is fairly valid, just by looking at the blogrolls of  most of the MMO blogs that I read.

Conclusions

The conclusions are pretty cut and dried, at least for Stropp’s World,

1. the majority of blog readers are also playing a MMO game.
2. a blog reader is more likely to read more than 10 blogs.

BTW, for the graphs I used the Open Office spreadsheet application, Calc. I decided a few weeks ago to look at the Open Office application suite rather than go out and get MS Office. While, in some ways, it’s a little rougher than Office, it still does the job and produces some damn fine graphs.

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