Survey ends today—The last* chance to participate

The survey being conducted by Paige Jarreau and Science Borealis (Canadian science blog aggregator) is coming to an end today. If you have any interest in participating here’s more including a link from my Nov. 25, 2015 posting,

… Dr. Paige Jarreau from Louisiana State University and 20 other Canadian science bloggers [are conducting] a broad survey of Canadian science blog readers.

Together we are trying to find out who reads science blogs in Canada, where they come from, whether Canadian-specific content is important to them and where they go for trustworthy, accurate science news and information. Your feedback will also help me learn more about my own blog readers.

It only take 5 minutes [I’d say more like 20 minutes as there’s more than one ‘essay’ question in addition to the questions where you tick off a box] to complete the survey. Begin here: http://bit.ly/ScienceBorealisSurvey

If you complete the survey you will be entered to win one of eleven prizes! A $50 Chapters Gift Card, a $20 surprise gift card, 3 Science Borealis T-shirts and 6 Surprise Gifts! PLUS everyone who completes the survey will receive a free hi-resolution science photograph from Paige’s Photography!

Ooops! I got the deadline wrong several times in that November 25, 2015 posting. The correct deadline is today, Dec. 14, 2015.

If you read one of the blogs being aggregated by Science Borealis, you are eligible to enter and win a prize no matter where in the world you live. Organizers will try to ensure that prizes are age appropriate.

They have compiled some preliminary results:

  • 21 bloggers + Science Borealis hosted the survey.
  • 523 respondents began the survey.
  • 338 respondents entered their email addresses to win a prize
  • 63% of 400 Respondents are not science bloggers
  • 56% of 402 Respondents describe themselves as scientists
  • 76% of 431 Respondents were not familiar with Science Borealis before taking the survey
  • 85% of 403 Respondents often, very often or always seek out science information online.
  • 59% of 402 Respondents rarely or never seek science content that is specifically Canadian
  • Of 400 Respondents, locations were: 35% Canada, 35% US, 30% Other.

To anyone who linked to the survey from here, I’m very appreciative. The data is being broken down blog by blog so I will find out a little about the FrogHeart readership (the ones who participated, that is). As well, thank you to all the participants regardless of which link you used to get to the survey. It’s very exciting to see the numbers of people who took the time to start the survey. I don’t know about you but, in my book, ‘survey’ requests can be quite tiresome. So, I’m deeply thankful and will be sharing the results once they have been disseminated.

*’ast’ in headline changed to ‘last’ on Dec. 14, 2015 at 1755 hours PST.

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