https://forms.gle/HgPE9aayW2Gbfd4WA 5 very casual unscientific questions, all optional, on Google Forms, share the URL with and/or tag folks you think would be up for taking part, especially if you think they won’t have seen this! I’ll put the results here when I feel like it. :) Edit: I added a …

cool! I guess you’re not collecting emails?

just so you know, you can also make a poll here in the forum: [forum-poll]

Yeah, the spreadsheet of responses doesn’t contain email addresses or location or any other identifying information, so the only way I’d be able to tell who’s who is if I somehow could search for people who have exactly this number of IDs and observations, and it’d only work if no one observed or ID…

Looking forward to seeing the results.

Filled. But what is this for? Might make it more worth people’s time if the purpose/objective were known. :)

It’s a survey to see how many will fill out surveys if the subject is not offered up front!

Nosiness! Inspired partly by this thread though: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-is-inat-male-dominated/6533

I am also curious about the demographics of the curators and how many users are employed in (or retired from or students in) the natural sciences. I feel very lucky to be employed in the field of my degree where I also get to use iNat at work.

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cas4moss September 16, 2019, 5:15pm 5

Hey that’s cool, I wonder why no one did that in the “why are 80% of iNat people men?” thread.

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