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Equestria Daily : Brony Thank You Fund Competing in Under Armor Next Generation Charity Challenge

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:17:34 +0000

Actually, no. There are lots of causes that bronies raise money for. There is only one brony tax-exempt charity. Splitting hairs, perhaps. And even though you may not care to make us your charity of choice, I find it a bit offputting that you seem to be going out of your way to discourage others from donating. We spend a lot of personal time and effort (and our own money!) raising funds for charity. It's somewhat discouraging that some folks seem to have nothing better to do than to try and tear us down. 'Coder'

Equestria Daily : Brony Thank You Fund Competing in Under Armor Next Generation Charity Challenge

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:40:08 +0000

Even if you disliked the original project it sprung from, it was over and done in 2012. We have been solely focused on fundraising for charities for over a year, and donate only to tax-exempt causes such as the Jimmy Fund, Engineers Without Borders, and CalArts.

Equestria Daily : Brony Thank You Fund September Giveaway and 2014 Charity Poll

Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:02:45 +0000

Leaving apart personal opinions about the ad, we're operating solely as a charity now, and restricted by IRS regulations to donations to charitable causes. James 'Coder Brony' Turner

Equestria Daily : Japanese MLP Manga Detailed

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:13:19 +0000

And then they'll make an anime out of the manga, and The Ocean Group can dub it in English, and hire the MLP cast (many of whom they already have used) to do the voices, and then MLPception will be complete!

Equestria Daily : A Thank You To EqD And The Fandom

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:09:56 +0000

Well, we kinda did that already, in a big way... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN-FM-j8FA0

Equestria Daily : MLP Manga On the Way

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 03:02:34 +0000

And then the manga gets adapted into an anime, and comes to the west, and it gets dubbed, and they hire the MLP VAs to do the dubs...

Equestria Daily : Herd Census 2013 State of the Herd Report

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:21:29 +0000

The problem is, if you don't split it off, people self-report it. Likely approach for next year will be to have a separate "Are you hispanic/latino/etc" question, and limit the race question to the US census choices. Of course, we also had a ton of Europeans who seem to thinks that country of birth equals race as well... 'Coder'

Equestria Daily : Herd Census 2013 State of the Herd Report

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:18:57 +0000

Because it was free and readily available. I'm totally aware of the MBTI criticisms, and moving forward we'll be switching over to the "Big 5", including some planned peer-reviewed research that's being plotted for the summer. 'Coder'

Equestria Daily : Herd Census 2013 State of the Herd Report

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:16:56 +0000

I'm going to start with the caveat that I learned my statistics by osmosis from my PhD candidate wife, but I went and reran the CI numbers for a 1048 person sample of a 200,000,000 person population with a reported percentage of 3.4% (which is just the people reporting a "5" on the survey), and for a 95% CI, the interval is 1.17, meaning a high of 4.6% (rounding), and a low of 2.2%. That puts the total number (just for "5"s) at 4.4 million to 9.2 million. Unless I'm grossly abusing CI in some subtle way, I stand by that number. I'll be more than happy to entertain the idea that the Google sample was biased in some way, but the math seems right to me. 'Coder'

Equestria Daily : Herd Census 2013 State of the Herd Report

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:46:05 +0000

Actually, as I mentioned in the article, the rejection rate for my survey was right on the numbers for Google's baseline, indicating it was answered at almost exactly the same rate as their baseline questions. 'Cpder'

Equestria Daily : Herd Census 2013 State of the Herd Report

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:44:41 +0000

Two different surveys. I did a general population survey through Google Surveys last fall, using some freebie money they threw my way. 1028 respondents, 55 stated a 4 or 5 on a one to five scale (with 5 being highest) agreeing to the statement "How strongly would you identify yourself as a 'brony', a fan of the television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic?." I am quite willing to believe that Google's population is skewed, in spite of a lot of research they offer demonstrating it holds up well against random-number dialed phone surveys. I'd guess the real number as closer to two or three million. The only real way to tell is to do a real phone survey and find out. Anyone want to do a KickStarter to fund a random-number dialed survey with a decent sample size? Maybe 10,000? Article in question is here, BTW: http://www.herdcensus.com/generalsurvey.shtml 'Coder'

Equestria Daily : Herd Census 2013 State of the Herd Report

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:36:56 +0000

At your request, I did a few quick SPSS crosstabs. You can see age vs % furry here: http://www.herdcensus.com/images/2013/furryvsage.... Looking purely at a comparison of means using ANOVA, there's no real power to the effect of furriness on mean age: Yes: Mean 20.85, Std Dev 5.700 No: Mean 20.05, StdDev 5.274 Measures of Association Eta Squared 0.003

Equestria Daily : Herd Census 2013 State of the Herd Report

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:20:37 +0000

Yeah, that was my bad, both on making it a checkbox and in my interpretation. It turns out that asexuality is a black hole of uncertainty among researchers, with little agreement on what it means. I've reworded the report, and added a chart, which you can see individually here: http://www.herdcensus.com/images/2013/asexuality....

Equestria Daily : Story Cards for Official Episodes added to Auction

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:11:49 +0000

Well, when you consider that the people doing the writing were Lauren Faust and Amy Keating Rogers, and that they're full of stuff that didn't make the show or got changed...

Equestria Daily : Brony Census Reminder

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:15:40 +0000

Get in touch with me, I can always use more P power! And I have SPSS to play with this year!

Equestria Daily : Super Secret Awesome Leak - Morgan Freeman to Voice Twilight Sparkle

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:22:54 +0000

Do we get to see the endearing sight of bronies protecting their plushies from the killing cold in the line outside the autograph room, with their feet?

Equestria Daily : 2013 Brony Herd Census Commences

Tue, 8 Jan 2013 03:48:15 +0000

There are some questions that, no matter how you phrase them, are going to offend someone, but are extremely useful, especially when you're trying to norm against existing datasets. Gender/sex is one of them. This year, we chose to ask for the biological gender at birth and offer a check box later in the census to indicate transgender status, as opposed to having to have a confusing matrix of options on the question, or leave people unclear on how to select a value. I'm sorry if the wording offended you, but it was not our intent to place anypony in a difficult situation. Coder

Equestria Daily : \"Hot In Cleveland\" Brony Episode Coming Up

Wed, 2 Jan 2013 03:39:05 +0000

It looks like they're going to a costume party, so yah, I know a few bronies with full pony suits that might show up that way.

Equestria Daily : \"Hot In Cleveland\" Brony Episode Coming Up

Wed, 2 Jan 2013 03:32:10 +0000

Prince Silversaddle is now best pony!

Equestria Daily : Charity Reports: Donations from Each!

Tue, 1 Jan 2013 22:47:15 +0000

We're aiming for the fall. We still have one of the SDCC posters to auction off, three of our own mega-autographed posters to monetize, as well of lots of calendars and posters to sell at cons.