Comments on: Who Reads Savage Minds?

By: Steve M

Steve M — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:35:21 +0000

It’s a shame you didn’t offer a category for ‘archaeologist’ in your poll. I ended up not voting as it’d be the equivilant of being forced to tick ‘cultural studies’ despite being a Social Anthropologist.

I only mention this because in most countries archaeology isn’t a subdiscipline of anthropology, and nor do students necessarily get taught anthropology. Despite this however many archaeologists have a keen interest in the subject.

It would have been interesting to see how many of your readers are practising archaeologists caught in these Old World/New World disciplinary distinctions and affiliations. A missed opportunity.

By: timelf

timelf — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:57:48 +0000

You have at least one proud drop-out of Lewis & Clark reading your blog (who has forgotten all the reasons why he was supposed to hate Reed in the first place).

By: Kerim

Kerim — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:46:33 +0000

@Fred: Actually, if you add up non-Anthro majors, the percentage of grads and undergrads is 56%.

@Strong: Sorry, no zip-codes, but I’m sure they’re all at Reed.

By: Rex

Rex — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:06:50 +0000

Damn we got some Lewis and Clark haters on the blog. Or maybe just some PSU and Lewis and Clark haters.

By: lev michael

lev michael — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:42:59 +0000

I’m guessing that the prominence of Portland in the cities list is due to the strong connection between Reed and U Chicago, and not due to the density of colleges/universities there…

By: Strong

Strong — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:46:55 +0000

Kerim, can we have a breakdown of our readership in the DC area according to zip code?

By: James

James — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:33:28 +0000

Rex: me too.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:08:44 +0000

I’m guessing I’m the dot in Peru, though I’m actually in the jungle rather than the coast. I’m guessing the IP addresses are all based out of Lima or something…

By: Rex

Rex — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:56:01 +0000

Well the dot in the middle of the Pacific is definitely me. But the rest of the dots seem to be clustered around areas w/many universities, which matches with the survey data. There are lots of dots in the American ‘midwest’ (i.e. the ‘old northwest’) but not ‘the West’ – the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana. Which are pretty sparsely populated, esp. with multiple universities close together.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:15:13 +0000

Is there a connection between the top cities and contibutors to Savage Minds? i.e. does the main readership of Savage Minds coincide with where contributors live, mainly as friends, colleagues or students? 44% of readers are either grad or undergrad anth students. I also noticed the principle readership lives in the higest density locations in Europe and U.S. (Australia,too). Secondary locations appear all coastal (for whatever reason–port cities more international influence?) excepting northcentral India. Interestingly, the midwestern U.S. did not respond as readers.