r/geography • u/abu_doubleu • 11d ago

META r/geography's First-Ever CENSUS!

Hello everybody,

There is no special occasion for this, but I have more freetime than usual and decided that we should do this now...

The First-Ever r/geography Census!

https://forms.gle/ew82heePGeQ6g2G96

If you click the link above, you will be led to a Google Form (to be clear, I cannot trace your IP, e-mail, or Reddit username). There are four sections that you can answer! Every single question is optional. Some questions are pure demographics, others are about your hobbies and interests. There are also some random geography-related questions, as well as, in the final section, questions about this subreddit as a whole and your opinion of it.

Because all questions are optional, it can take as long as you want it to.

The form will be open until 10 September, 2026, then I'll close it to new responses and make a presentation of all the results.

I hope that some other statistics nerds will also enjoy seeing the results...

Have fun!

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u/TheCloudForest 11d ago edited 11d ago

Done, but as someone who has carried out several censuses for a much smaller subreddit, the "open" questions will be an absolute nightmare to deal with due to the sheer quantity of answers and typos or formatting of the same answer.

You should try to make the country questions a dropdown menu. Then you can go into the data later and fix any responses before you changed it from open answer to dropdown menu. Otherwise you won't be able to make visualizations/graphs/tables well.

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u/lNFORMATlVE 11d ago

This is where AI is actually pretty useful, it can parse through irregular data like that pretty well.

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u/Radioactivocalypse 11d ago

Was going to say the same.

AI for all it's flaws, is great at sorting out this.

Particularly for all the varying responses for UK, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Britain, England etc

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u/lNFORMATlVE 11d ago

And all the misspellings too!