Here's the latest results of our Reader Poll. It was compiled by our own software (drop us an email to get a free copy) and lets us know what you people out there are like. We hope it does a pretty good job of estimating what our readers are into and what they are not. Take a look at some fun facts:
Profile
- Average reader age - 19
- Average number of hours spent on PC during the week - 23
- Average number of hours spent watching TV during the week - 8 (Thank god...)
- Percentage of readers who know how to program a computer - 60%
- Percentage of readers that own a vehicle - 43%
- Percentage of readers who read 2600 - 13%
- Percentage of readers who read Wired - 60%
- Percentage of readers who read Mondo 2000 - 13%
- Percentage of readers who read Option - 3%
- Percentage of readers with at least a High School education - 44%
- Percentage of readers with at least a College education - 34%
- Percentage of readers with a Graduate education - 16%
- Most popular eye colors - Blue followed by Hazel
- Most popular hair color - Brown (58%)
- Most popular color - Blue (44%)
Music
- Average number of concerts attended in lifetime - 16
- Percentage of readers who've attended a rave - 63%
- Percentage of readers who've attended Lollapolooza - 23%
- Percentage of readers who've attended a rave - 63%
- Percentage of readers who listen to the radio - 20%
- Percentage of readers who watch MTV - 36%
- Most popular types of music by rank - Ambient, Acid Techno, Industrial, Other.
Sex
- Percentage of female readers - 27%
- Percentage of readers who've had anal sex - 26%
- Percentage of readers who've had oral sex - 56%
- Percentage of readers who've had sex at all - 74%
- Average numbers of partners - 6
- Percentage of purely heterosexual readers - 76%
- Percentage of readers who masturbate - 70% (At least those that admitted it.)
- Most popular sexual positions - "69" followed by Doggie Style
Recreation
- Most popular sports - Other followed by Football
- Percentage of readers who've tried alchohol - 83%
- Percentage of readers who've tried smokes - 73%
- Percentage of readers who've tried coke - 16% (Yah, right)
- Percentage of readers who've tried smack - 6%
- Percentage of readers who've tried acid - 33%
- Percentage of readers who've tried shrooms - 26%
- Percentage of readers who consider themselves as regular drug users - 33%
- Percentage of readers who hang out at Denny's - 10%
Ambient Interactive
- Percentage of readers who have written for ambient in the past - 3% (Come on people...)
- Percentage of readers who are thinking about writing something - 60% (That's better.)
- Only 20% of you guys have read Ambient Issue 4. Pick it up if you haven't already. Then pick the others up too.
- You guys liked Ambient Interactive Issue 4 a lot more than the others. We do too.
