In this part you can read about the basic information about the Lost fans who took part and finished the survey. This survey sample consists of 2351 people.
The great majority of these fans found the link to the study on the darkufo site (80%!!!), the second biggest group was from the Lost fan forums on the German student network StudiVZ (8%), and the 3rd biggest group came from the lostpedia.com (7%) forum.
Most people who took part in the study came from the
As you can see in the graph there were more men (55%) who took part on the study than women (45%)
Most people were between 18 and 34 years old (almost 70%). Nice to know that there could be 0,21% people over 65 in our mids:)!
One of the most interesting information in my opinion is that the great majority of the sample seems to have a degree of higher education (58%) or a high school diploma that allows them to study on a university (26%).
This amazing fact can not only be explained by posting the survey on a student network (because only 8% of the sample came from there) – but it could mean that students and ex students might be more willing to help a fellow student by taking the survey. But I am just guessing here, as I said before: the sample data doesn’t necessarily have to reflect the data from all lost fans who visit the fan sites, or, even less so, from all lost viewers!
From all these lost fans who took part in the study 28% didn’t feel as a part of the Lost community (and are probably lurkers, because they had to visit a fan site or forum to see the link to the study).
The most people of the sample seem to be heavy internet users (55% uses it more than 4 hours a day), but not necessarily heavy TV viewers.
And last, but certainly not least, there was almost a tie between singles (49%) and the ones in a relationship (22%)/married (29%)!
