The Results (percentages only) of the Iron Maiden Survey are finally available

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IMthesis

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Hi everybody,

Dengue and typhoid within a couple of weeks, I cannot say that the year 2008 has well started as far as I'm concerned.

Feeling a bit better now, I'm back to work and as promised, the results of the survey are available in the 7 languages at the same address : http://www.ironthesis.org/

I will need your help soon to get "qualitative" information in order to back up the results.

You've been 4216 people from all around the world having answered this survey.

As far as I know, it the biggest academic survey ever carried.

Thanks again from the bottom of my heart to all the people who have participated ,

Be in touch soon,

Jean-Philippe
 
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So...what I have learned: half of Maiden fans are atheists...while 1/3rd have been with a prostitute.

ONHELL!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Wow, a lot of those 4216 fans are Brazilian......and a fair few think about death or have tried to kill themselves...hmm. A bit worrying, lol. At least it seems most people appear to be central in their political affiliation.
 
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I was wondering about that, myself.  However, I don't know if those numbers are any different, statistically, than the average population...
 
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It always is a suprise to me that more people think angels sre there but the devil is not.

One could say I am stupid to be suprised every time again.
 
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Some interesting notes from the survey...

Fear of the Dark is the most owned album after Powerslave and The Number of the Beast.  That surprises me.

Roughly 2/3 of Maiden fans surveyed believe in some sort of a god and most believe that Maiden's music is not anti-religious.

1/5 of Maiden fans have frequent sex with prostitutes (whoa!) and 78% have had a serious relationship for only sexual reasons.  Wow!  Hmmm... I wonder how many of those were male.  :ninja:

Almost a 1/3 of those surveyed have a spouse who is a Maiden fan.  Lucky bastards!  :P  ...And 7% have a mother who is a Maiden fan.  Family visits must be really fun.

Thanks for the update, IMthesis.
 
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Genghis Khan said:
Fear of the Dark is the most owned album after Powerslave and The Number of the Beast.
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In my view it confirms that the album is underrated on this forum.
 
LooseCannon said:
So...what I have learned: half of Maiden fans are atheists...while 1/3rd have been with a prostitute.

ONHELL!!!!!!!!!!
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Wait... I actually told you that story? I can't remember...
Genghis Khan said:
1/5 of Maiden fans have frequent sex with prostitutes (whoa!) and 78% have had a serious relationship for only sexual reasons.  Wow!  Hmmm... I wonder how many of those were male.  :ninja:
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I think it meant a relationship with a prostitute since the next question is if a long-term relationship with a prostitute is even possible....
 
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That was a section I found interesting, the questions about prostitutes.
 
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Ardius said:
Wow, a lot of those 4216 fans are Brazilian......and a fair few think about death or have tried to kill themselves...hmm. A bit worrying, lol. At least it seems most people appear to be central in their political affiliation.
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Yeah, i think the band should read this survey and come here more often and visit more cities... but i don't believe that the proportion between the amount of Maiden fans in Brazil is so big in comparison with the rest of the world as is shown in the survey.


2,51% consider "Iron maiden" a love song :blink:
 
but i don't believe that the proportion between the amount of Maiden fans in Brazil is so big in comparison with the rest of the world as is shown in the survey.
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It justs looks to me that the study was conducted from there......
 
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The study was spread via internet to many sites, but it looks like Brazilians took up the call.
 
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Or perhaps there was a link on a large Brazilian Maiden forum?

Ah well, I guess you can't really achieve scientific accuracy for the whole world with such small figures.  With no disrespect to IMthesis, of course, since it is the largest study of Maiden fans I have seen.  :) 
 
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Forostar said:
In my view it confirms that the album [Fear of the Dark] is underrated on this forum.
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Fear of the Dark is underrated on this forum, but still, I would not place it as the third most important album to have.  That is not to say Maiden fans are wrong, merely that I'm surprized.
 
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Genghis Khan said:
Fear of the Dark is underrated on this forum, but still, I would not place it as the third most important album to have.  That is not to say Maiden fans are wrong, merely that I'm surprized.
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Or we just don't like it :D
 
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LooseCannon said:
Or we just don't like it :D
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It is strange to see your post with a smiley.  You know the funny thing is, I was using a rest room at a pub tonight and one of the bathroom slogans of "You know you're a Canadian when..." said "you don't use a smiley after an email post".  Huh!  I though of you.  Then I come here and see you use a smiley.  That's a first.
 
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I rarely use them.  Only when I feel it's necessary to denote a joke or extreme sarcasm.
 
Fear Of The Dark is certainly not underated on this forum, i think that it has it's right objective rank. Bruce sings with style that doesn't fit him very well and whole album has a lot of filler tracks. From what i've seen of fans that were introduced to Maiden before year 2000, FODT generaly ranks somewhere in the space between low-middle ranks and high-lower ranks, that's floating somewhere between low spots on the middle-ranked 5 albums, and high spots for the worst five albums.

Most of the older Maiden fans do consider the top 4 to be classic lineup records, or the classic lineup records minus one of them plus Number Of The Beast.

Hmm...that makes me wonder if i posted in general album rankings post...
 
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