I’ve now done most of the articles I intend to write about the results of the safeword survey I did, details of which and links to articles are here.
I’ve decided to put up the dataset for anyone to download and to do any further analysis they wish. Here it is:
Attribution
All I ask is that:
- If you publish anything about this data then please credit me as the source and link
to the homepage of this blog – belasarius.com. If you want to publish it with this image – that’s fine too. - That you under no circumstances claim any scientific, academic or statistical credibility for the data. Please make it clear that the responses are a self-selecting sample of 557 respondents recruited through the websites Informed Consent, fetbook, fetlife and through this blog, gathered between 19 January 2013 and 3 February 2013: The data is simply what more than 500 people active on BDSM websites said about their views on safewords.
Dataset
The dataset is completely anonymised but otherwise complete. There were peculiarities with some of the data, so in the dataset I used (not the dataset that is downloadable here) I removed 24 records, leaving me with 533 to analyse.
- I eliminated those records where the respondent only answered the demographic questions.
- I took out multiple responses from the same TCP/IP address (It seemed fairer to take out ALL responses from the same address rather than leave the first one in).
- I also did not use stranger responses, such as the person whose sexuality was “Cod”, the people who had 557,774,456, 100,000 and 9,800 play partners in the last 12 months and, among a few others, the retired 18-20 year old and the 18-20 year old who had left full-time education at 16 and had a doctorate.
A dominant and submissive life 