Who Writes To Them?
The 2006 WriteToThem.com (WTT) statistics are up (here) including a small look at who is using WTT based on the deprivation of where they live. It set out to answer one very specific question - "do deprived areas use WriteToThem less than average?". It doesn't answer, and doesn't seek to answer, other questions. It doesn't tell you much about who they are, and tells you nothing about the topics on which they write.
Contrary to naive expectations, users of WTT are not "rich people who have access to the internet" - they're pretty much representative of everyone.
Contrary to naive expectations, users of WTT are not "rich people who have access to the internet" - they're pretty much representative of everyone.
1 Comments:
Thanks for popping over to my site earlier Sam.
I was interesting to see your WTT analysis as I'd been wondering some of the things the TWFY data said myself, albeit more about the 'writees' than the writers.
I don't have any background in statistics; when I look at TWFY data I just have to assume a quintile is like a quartile but bigger (or probably smaller I guess).
That said I'm pretty numerate and also come at it from a particular political angle; I've got an eye for data, and technical skills to play with it. I expected to see patterns in all the data regarding communication patterns even beyond WTT, but if there is something of note it is well hidden, nothing else seemed to throw up such complete randomness of geography and political affiliation. Only Sinn Féin and the speakerships behaved for obvious reasons.
I actually quite liked the outcome away...even if it did deny me any chance to rant. It's good to know that there are some imponderables left, the instinct of one group or another to write or not, and an instinct from the recipient to reply or not.
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