Tyche Shepherd

I have just completed a 2000 region survey of Private Estates to estimate Full Region/Homestead/Openspace penetration figures. The Results are as follows

• Full Regions : 1029
• Homestead Regions: 672
• Openspace: 14
• Closed to Public :285

Of the 1715 accessible regions , 60.0% are Full Regions, 39.18% are Homesteads and 0.82% are Openspaces. The Margin of Error on the first two percentages is +/-2.23% at the 95% confidence level, The Openspace Margin of error is +/-0.41%.



Last time I ran a similar Survey was August 2008 (Openspaces nearly half of all Estate Sims) where I estimated 54% Full Regions vs 46% Old Style Openspaces. This was a few months before the repricing of Homesteads .



One significant change from the last survey is that the proportion of regions closed to public access has declined from 17.0% to 14.25%. Just by scanning region names there seems a small bias towards commercial/academic regions being closed to the public , the same trend was noted last survey.


In my Survey Bots travels she only visited one region which was the "Homestead - Developed" type , i.e one of the new homesteads delivered with Linden Content . This seems to indicate that there has been very little demand for this Linden Product.


The 2000 sample was randomly drawn from all 23812 Private Estates present on the Grid on 20th October 2009. An additional 25 regions were also selected to replace regions which went off the Grid between the sample being drawn and the actual surveying, or in 4 cases were off line during the surveying period. None of the 5604 Mainland regions were included in the sampling.

__________________

Equinox Pinion

Last night Jack said they have about 9700 homesteads, 13800 full regions and 250 openspace regions

Tyche Shepherd

Could have saved me a lot of time ... So about 58.1% vs 40.8% vs 1.1% ... Nice to have independent confirmation of the accuracy of my surveying

Beebo Brink

I wonder if they misjudged the market for their particular themes or whether it's an indication that people persistently want a blank canvas to make their mark. I lean toward the latter.

__________________

Gigs

Statistics works, bitches!

I wish more people had a grasp on the basics of statistics that you have.

__________________
-
-
"It is the paramount duty of governments and of politicians to secure the wellbeing of the community under the case in the present, and not to run risks overmuch for the future" - JM Keynes

katiem1066

That seems totally non-intuitive to me. You'd think academic institutions and companies in SL would *want* the public exposure. Weird. (I'm not saying your findings are wrong)

Aki Shichiroji

That is assuming said institutions don't mind the odd flying penis attack.



Seriously though, if i were an edu in SL, i'd want to close the sim off from outsiders unless something public was going on, otherwise there's a fair possibility classes could be disrupted. Same thing with businesses who are using SL for business use and not promotional use.