There's anecdotes, there's opinions, and then there is data. I spent a couple of hours this morning creating a WuFoo survey about "how addictive is technology?"
I would appreciate it if you guys could take the time to complete and spread the word. I will share whatever I learn back on HN, of course :) I think if we can get enough folks participating, it should make for very interesting reading.
I was torn about what to put in there. No right answer, really. At the end of the day I decided I would rather have fewer answers with more data than more answers with fewer data.
Things like gender, income, and zip are pretty important, actually. (I should have asked eduction level! doh!) The thing is, without any kind of specific tags, it's just a random opinion survey, whereas with the data it's possible to say something like "yeah, but that's only true for rich people living on the east coast", or "sure it shows a lot of internet usage, but the average age is 17, so probably you grow out of it" -- I think those kinds of observations are very important, and I wouldn't have wanted to do the survey without them. The goal here is to try to have a detailed conversation -- as anonymously as possible -- so that then I can post results back here and then we're talking data and not opinions so much.
I would appreciate it if you guys could take the time to complete and spread the word. I will share whatever I learn back on HN, of course :) I think if we can get enough folks participating, it should make for very interesting reading.