And the results are in – what did the survey tell us?
Firstly, I wanted to say thankyou to everybody who took the time to take the survey – hopefully it wasn’t too harrowing recalling those repressed memories times when you naively approached a quaint looking yarn store, looking for a crochet hook…
There were 704 responses to the survey in all, and I’ll leave it to you to decide whether the results were of interest or not.
The vast majority of respondees (512/704) were ‘bi-craftual’, able to both knit and crochet to at least some degree, whilst there were 112 sole hookers and 86 people that were capable only of wielding pointy sticks in pairs. You want that in a graph? OK (though I mustn’t do too many of these otherwise I will get drunk on the power of the visual aid…) Let’s start with a venn diagram:
venn diagram demonstrating which crafts respondees enjoy
It is important to note at this point that answers to this and all questions may be skewed slightly. This is an open blog, and anyone is free to visit and all were free to take part in the survey, however Google Analytics shows that all of the significant volume of new traffic were coming from crochet blogs and crocheting groups on message boards such as Ravelry (more of which, later), so there should be strong representation of the crocheting community present in the results – that is no bad thing at all, but may not be representative of the general balance of those that tend to favour one craft over the other, which brings us on to the next statistic. [...]
