{"id":11269,"date":"2022-10-23T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=11269"},"modified":"2022-10-23T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T10:03:29","slug":"substack-1st-anniversary-statistics-reader-survey-and-a-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2022\/10\/substack-1st-anniversary-statistics-reader-survey-and-a-new-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Substack 1st anniversary, statistics, reader survey, and a new video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Substack is growing a lot faster than I anticipated, and we&#8217;ve hit <del>2000<\/del> 2100. It took about one year, as my first post was 11th October 2021:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11308\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/substack-growth.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"914\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/substack-growth.png 914w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/substack-growth-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/substack-growth-768x587.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paid subscribers also sees a nice growth:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11309\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/substack-growth2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"893\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/substack-growth2.png 893w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/substack-growth2-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/substack-growth2-768x596.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I do not usually beg in my posts, as this is very cringe behavior. Nevertheless, hopefully the above has shamed you into also wanting to support more studies and <a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2022\/04\/heat-and-the-great-balls-decline\/\">blogposts about monkey&#8217;s balls in hot water.<\/a> If so, then consider making a donation in some way other another:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del>Paypal: banned<\/del><\/li>\n<li>Become a paid Subscriber (make the green curve above look better)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skrill.com\/en\">Skrill<\/a>: emilowk@protonmail.ch<\/li>\n<li>Tether\/Ethereum: 0xc9e87B3b273410a35d54f97f00247C5cBaD8fD32<\/li>\n<li>Bitcoin: <span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">32Pvp5RqM9n5dzESkVAqSBbsBUNe59xLbW<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Subscribestar: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/emilowk\">https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/emilowk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bank: IBAN: Nordea Bank Danmark A\/S, IBAN: DK3320004375721207, SWIFT\/BIC: NDEADKKK<\/li>\n<li>If you want some further option, email me at emilowk@proton.me<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This blog content will never be paywalled, there won&#8217;t be any extra secret content for payers. More money allows me to hire more people to get science done, buy more datasets, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>That said, let&#8217;s now turn to the main <em>new thing<\/em>. Long time bloggers now that it is good to know your audience, and what better way than to survey them. Popular writers like <a href=\"https:\/\/aella.substack.com\/p\/fetish-tabooness-vs-popularity\">Aellagirl<\/a>, Richard Hanania (part <a href=\"https:\/\/richardhanania.substack.com\/p\/survey-results-i-basic-demographics\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/richardhanania.substack.com\/p\/survey-results-ii-likes-and-dislikes\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/richardhanania.substack.com\/p\/survey-results-iii-birth-order-effects\">3<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/astralcodexten.substack.com\/p\/birth-order-effects-nature-vs-nurture\">Scott Alexander<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/2020\/07\/13\/brown-pundits-reader-survey-2020\/\">Razib Khan<\/a> have reader surveys. The response rate is typically about 10%, so given my 2000ish readers (?), we should get about 200 people.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/survey.alchemer.eu\/s3\/90498375\/Kirkegaard-blog-survey\">2022 Kirkegaard blog reader survey<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a new video out on our Economic growth study!<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"National Intelligence - The Best Predictor Of Economic Growth\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jYQLqC-YLkw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: static !important;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Substack is growing a lot faster than I anticipated, and we&#8217;ve hit 2000 2100. It took about one year, as my first post was 11th October 2021: Paid subscribers also sees a nice growth: I do not usually beg in my posts, as this is very cringe behavior. Nevertheless, hopefully the above has shamed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1898,2589,2817],"tags":[2787,3222,3221],"class_list":["post-11269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-meta-2","category-personal","tag-donation","tag-new-video","tag-reader-survey","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11310,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269\/revisions\/11310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}