#responses that aren't data are also welcome lol

[eldersoonglore]

It's early into the morning shortly after the night to day shift change on the bridge occurred on the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D. The dull hum of the ship vibrates through the bustling corridors and quarters, including the living space of Lt. Commander Data.

Within Commander Data's quarters sits his workstation, hundreds of little green dots on the screen blinking intermittently all across the screen. To human eyes, the pattern would appear imperceptibly fast. However to an android, it became an code written in a process similar to complex form of morse.

The encrypted message remained repeating, waiting for its intended receptor to find it. It masked a frequency number that lead to a proxied connection, providing an "address" to return messages to, and one simple message:

H E L L O B R O T H E R .

<< @data-dominant >>

[phannie-elvis]

Phannie Census Update #1 (Intro and Timeline)

Phwoah dads, hello everyone!

(summary at the end for anyone who doesn't want to read the whole update, also here's the link to the census if this is the first you're hearing about it)

I'm just going to talk as the mod for the rest of this without changing the color (normally I would change the color of the text to blue when the mod is talking, but I figured that might be hard to read for the amount of text I'm about to write lol).

Welcome to everyone who followed me from the Phannie Census! If you're not familiar with the elvisverse and elvis blogs, this blog must be pretty confusing, so I would suggest checking out @elvis-official or @elvis-resercher-official if you want to learn more (if you don't want to learn more, just know that I'll have "elvisisms" in my posts -such as Phwoah dads, phummina phummina, and *sexy end screen dance*- and I'll reblog some stuff that happens in the elvisverse in addition to phannie stuff). I posted this on my elvis blog instead of my main since it has more followers, and I wanted to reach as many people as possible. If you find elvis blogs annoying, feel free to unfollow me (no hard feelings, I know gimmick blogs aren't for everyone)! I'm planning on tagging everything related to the census with #phannie census 2025, so you can follow that tag instead. If you're not a tags person, I'm also planning on creating a master post linking all my updates that I'll link in my pinned post, so you can just check that periodically.

For the timeline of the census, unfortunately it'll take a while for me to have my full-fledged complicated analysis. However, because I know people will want results as soon as possible, I'm planning on posting updates on Sundays (as I have them, for the next few Sundays I have things planned out, but as I spend more time working on code for the analysis there might be some Sundays with no updates, also I'm in the process of moving so apologies if some things related to this get delayed).

This upcoming Sunday I am planning on releasing some preliminary results! These results will not be finalized, as I don't plan on closing the survey until I feel like everyone who wants to has had a chance to take it. The results will also not be super in depth, just the results for each question on the Google Form summary (for my full analysis I'm planning on pulling together data from multiple questions/responses, e.g. what percent of respondents were dannies when they joined the phandom but are phillies now? what percent of respondents are all four G's of the Dan and Phil demographic?). On Sunday, we'll get some preliminary answers to questions like "what percent of respondents identify as lesbian?" and "were there more dannie or phillie respondents?" (just keep in mind that some of these answers- particularly ones that are close- can still change while the survey is open).

I've had over 700 responses so far, so thank you so so much to everyone who took the survey and shared it!!! I was not expecting the survey to get nearly this many responses (and so quickly too!). With a sample size this big, we're actually getting some really solid data! We might technically be able to generalize the data set to all tumblr phannies using statistics - i.e. saying with 99% confidence that approximately 29% of tumblr phannies identify as a lesbian based on the results of the survey. However, I'm not sure I wanna make sweeping statements about the whole tumblr phannie community since the way the survey was distributed was not 100% scientific (I also can't extend to the whole phannie community beyond tumblr, since as far as I know everyone who took the survey got it from tumblr- feel free to spread it to other places like Twitter or your phannie friends though! I don't have Twitter so I can't send it there but I would love a greater/more representative sample size).

tldr: This is an elvis blog (you can unfollow and just check the link in my pinned post for updates instead if you don't like elvis blogs or you can follow the #phannie census 2025 tag). I'm going to be posting updates about the census as I have them on Sundays, with the next update being preliminary results this Sunday. I've had over 700 responses so far (thanks so much!), so I can do some real math but I don't feel comfortable generalizing about the whole community so I might just stick to saying "respondents" instead of phannies/tumblr phannies (also feel free to spread the census to other social media or to friends).

Apologies for this novel of a post, I learned my yapping skills from my dad, Mr. Danny "not on fire" Howell. I want to say future updates will be shorter, but honestly I can't promise that (I'll add tldr's if they're this long though).

Athankyouverymuch everyone! *sexy end screen dance*