When we saw the response that burgess_meredith_jr's reddit demographic survey received, we were intrigued by how diverse reddit's community is. We had a general idea about who the average redditor was, but we got a much more detailed description than we had ever seen before. Around the same time, r/fitness released an in-depth analysis of the fittit community. While a brief analysis of both surveys indicated that the average redditor is a 20-something American male, we know that there are lots of diverse redditors among us and that has led us to a new project, "Who in the world is reddit?"
The two surveys opened our eyes, and we are curious about who we are as a whole and what makes each sub-reddit unique. That's why we are launching our first of many demographic surveys — these surveys should only take 5 minutes to complete with 12 multiple choice questions and one free form country question (please spell out country, e.g. United Kingdom over U.K.). Please note that all information collected is anonymous and not linked to your reddit account.
Click here to take the survey.
After a week of collecting data, we will provide you with our initial thoughts and analysis of the data, and then make the results public for all you data wizards out there to play with.
We invite sub-reddits to write their own demographic surveys and submit that list of questions (we recommend multiple choice) to r/pimpmyreddit. Cupcake1713 will take the questions you provide, possibly add a few more, and then create a survey for your sub-reddit and share the results.
