Whosthatsilmcharacter Raw Data
It's finally done! Only took all winter break, but hey, I can put it on my resume now 🤣
Seriously though, if you notice anything wrong on the sheet (misspellings, duplicates, miscounts, etc) please let me know. I was very meticulous, but I am just one person. Beyond that, enjoy! Feel free to comment or send me asks if you have any questions or comments you'd like to share!
Notes on the data: It's organized into 10 columns (Name of character, species, house/family, date the art was originally posted, artist, whether or not it had been posted before the poll, total votes on the poll, percentage of correct votes, incorrect options/percentage of votes each of those got, and indicative iconography + number of mentions).
My hope is to make it very intuitive and as searchable as possible. For instance, if you want to see how your blorbos did in other polls, you can ctrl+f and type their name in the search box to see every appearance of their name. Furthermore, if you wanted to draw your own conclusions about, say, how important hair is to iconography, you could ctrl+f "hair" and find every instance of that word in the datasheet. (Although, in that particular case, I would recommend adding a space to the end of the word because there were a few characters whose hairstyle was important to their character, as opposed to hair color).
AND ANOTHER THING (sorry, I've got a bunch of random notes lol) I noticed when going through the comments and reblogs of each of the posts and tallying them up; people didn't tend to list out all of the possible iconography shown in the art piece. Instead, they usually pointed out the most prominent or the most unique. For instance, with Beleg Georg, most people didn't even mention his hair, bow, or species -- they just pointed out the bright red boots because... what more do you need?
Finally, I noticed an interesting thing about bias while tallying (I just finished a ridiculously long course on research ethics (including, of course, researcher bias) for another research project I'm doing at school, so it was on my mind). Oftentimes, when I was making the little summaries after each poll, I noted the most commonly cited signs from memory, based on the vibes I had immediately after reading all the notes. Well, turns out, there were a few times that something was bigger in my mind than it was in the comments, and a few times that something minor was mentioned consistently but totally slipped my notice... And that's why we have peer review!
