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Greetings to the Rialto.

   A few good points have been made against the century survey idea I
proposed. Bjalfi said that it was more biased than I suggested, in that it
would select only those Rialtans who were interested in answering surveys;
this is true. Also, a few people gave their lords and ladies' centuries as
well; these are listed in the non-net column. However, in any case, here
are the results, biased though they may be:

Century   Count  Non-net
  17        1
  16        6
  15        3       2
  14        5
  13        2
  12        6
  11        1
  10        5       1
   9        4
   8        1
   7        0
   6        1
generic     1   (One individual requested to be counted as having not
                 chosen a century yet. I suspect that this low number is a
                 result of bias in the survey question; I think there are
                 more generic SCAdians than the survey would indicate.)

   Or, in graphic form:


              X               X       *
              X   *   X       X       X
              X   *   X       X       X
              X   X   X       X       X
              X   X   X   X   X       X
          X   X   X   X   X   X   X   X   X   X       X       X
Century  17  16  15  14  13  12  11  10  09  08  07  06    generic

   X's indicate Rialtan answers and asterisks indicate people off the net.

   Please not: I am not a statistician. While I do have an interest in
statistics, I am no expert. However, even I do think that this is a tiny
sample size; I was hoping for a bit more actually. But I think it does show
some trends; the end of period is very popular, and the 10th century seems
to be the most popular of the pre-feudal time period. This is interesting,
for someone whose interests lie in 10th century Irish-Norse culture...

   A number of people sent in their cultures as well. I may collect and put
together a similar listing for that; I *highly* doubt I will post it tho as
I don't think I got the same cultural background more than twice (except
'Viking' and 'English'). I was sort of expecting that in fact; the SCA is
extremely diverse culturally, and in fact that was the reason why I didn't
put that question in the original survey question.

   Anybody who's interested in a cultural list, email me. I'll add you to a
mailing list and just email the results out directly.

         Loki         | cs341a050@husky1.stmarys.ca | Brynjolfr Myrkjartanarson
 often sysop of TWWOL | DFLEMMIN@SHARK.STMARYS.CA   |    Compaignie Mercurie

Government is essentially immoral.

                 --- Herbert Spenser