Some of you were around for my 2022 reader survey (see Part I, Part II, and Part III). I just reran it, and this post will discuss the results.
First, allow me to credit ChatGPT. We spend so much time debating questions like whether AI will end the world that it prevents us from appreciating how miraculous this new technology already is. In 2022, cleaning the data, doing the statistical analysis, and creating the figures for the survey took days of work. This time, it was literally minutes. And within a few hours, I was able to make an interactive webpage where you can search through the results for both 2022 and 2026, see how my readership has changed, and filter the results by year, sex, country, and age.
Hanania Survey Results, Interactive Page
While the number of subscribers has grown fivefold since 2022, the number of respondents went down from 1,284 to 771. I don’t put too much stock in this, as I made less of an effort this time to encourage people to take the survey.
Younger and Richer
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You might as well ask why women don't love The Three Stooges.
If you want a justification for the banning of boss-initiated sex harassment, try to think in terms of "contractual violation demanding tasks different from what was, implicitly or explicitly, defined in the job contract" (this will not apply to situations where was already previously defined that the employee was supposed to have sex with the boss - like, in the real word, the job of Virgina Jonhson to William Masters)