a peek at the Bookbear Express hive mind

Peter Doig, Grande Riviere, 2003

Hello! I will be taking it easy for the rest of the year (probably will try to write at least one more post) but we have lots of fun things coming up in the New Year. There will be another round of matchmaking in January, we’ll be doing a matchmaking party at Green Apple Books on February 10th, and who knows what else!!!

In the meantime, I have been procrastinating on this for, uh, multiple months, but finally: some demographic information for you guys. 724 Bookbear Express readers answered the survey (thank you!!). Out of those:

1. The average age is 34.65, which is actually surprising to me! The median age is 28.

2. Sibling order: 50% were oldest, 13% were only, 24% youngest, 13% were somewhere in between.

3. SF, New York, London, were the most popular individual cities mentioned as places you guys lived. Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle (basically all the major coastal US cities) were also very popular. But there’s quite a range, as you can see:

   New York, New York, USA

   London, UK

   Endicott, NY, USA

   Bristol, England

   Toruń, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland

   Sydney, NSW, Australia

   Oakland

   Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

   copenhagen, denmark but i'm french

   Berlin, Germany

   Sweden

   lipa, batangas, philippines

4. 46% of you guys identify as female, 50% as male, and 4% of you as nonbinary.

5. On average, you guys said you’re 6.71/10 happy, with a median of 7. But 495 of you guys said you were “more happy” than you were five years ago :)

6. To no one’s surprise, we are more liberal than conservative (7.3/10 with 10 being “most liberal”).

7. “Software Engineer” was the most popular job (102 of you), but there was quite a variety:

   Product Designer

   Computer Science Major / Virtual Assistant

   Writer

   I quit my finance job of 18 years to try to find meaning…currently still looking for it

   Membership Manager, nonprofit association

   Student

   Psychiatry resident

   I work at an international human rights nonprofit!

   Medical Student

   unemployed rn - engineer + entrepreneur

   im a chef

   Right now, nothing. Prior HR, or building teams, or writing in the future

   Creative producer, tech industry

   Designer

8. Also quite a spread of universities:

   cal poly pomona, ca

   UCL

   Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile

   Edinburgh, UK

   University of Pennsylvania

   University of Southern California (USC)

   University of Tokyo

   Berlin, Germany

   Monmouth University/Adelphi University

   UO Nottingham

   University of Texas at Austin

   University of BristolUniversity of Toronto

   University of the Arts (RIP)

   University of Minnesota

   University College Dublin

   I didn't :)

   UK and USA, University College London, George Washington University for PhD

   Belmont University

   University of Cambridge (UK)

   India

   finland

   The most common university, from what I could tell, was UC Berkeley.

9. Running was the most popular workout (186 people do it!) followed by yoga (117 people) and lifting (103)

10. We have 91 INFJs and 91 INTJs which feels… insane.