Big Furry Survey AC.18.P1.IPOL (paper version Anthrocon, July 2018) |
Information and Consent
This study was launched in paper version at Anthrocon 2018. If you completed the paper version at the convention and submitted it, then we thank you for already participating!
You are invited to participate in a survey study about furries and the furry fandom. This survey is part of ongoing exploratory research by the International Anthropomorphic Research Project (IARP) looking at the psychology of furries and the furry fandom. We will be collecting information about numerous topics with the hope of gaining a better understanding of the furry fandom. Specifically, we explore the relationships among demographic variables (e.g., age, race, gender, sexual orientation), identity markers (e.g., furry, brony, anime fans, greymuzzles, therian, otherkin, etc.), wellbeing, understandings of human identity, connection to fandoms, stigma, fursuits, political and social attitudes, family cohesion and child welfare, personality, bonds with animals, introversion/extraversion, identity measures, esteem, life satisfaction, social support, sexuality, spirituality, openness of social identities, autism and other neurodivergences, memories, etc. This survey is estimated to take approximately 20-30 minutes.
If you begin or complete the survey and do not want your data to be included, you can indicate these wishes at the end of the survey, and we will manually delete your data. Because there are no personal identifiers, there is no additional opportunity to delete your data after your survey is closed, as we have no way of knowing which data is yours. We will keep our study records for a minimum of seven years. All records will be destroyed according to University of Waterloo policy.
These data, which do not contain any identifying information, will be exchanged between researchers and research assistants/apprentices. The shared data will be anonymous, and will have no identifying information. This information will be kept on the researchers/assistants/apprentices password-protected computers. In keeping with university and funding policies that are continuously evolving, anonymous datasets may be posted to a data repository, made available to the public, and/or made available to a researcher/apprentice/student at another institution/journal referee who requests the data. This survey uses Survey Monkey (TM), which is an American Company. When information is transmitted over the Internet, privacy cannot be guaranteed. There is always a risk your responses may be intercepted by a third party (e.g., government agencies, hackers). University of Waterloo researchers will not collect or use internet protocol (IP) addresses or other information which could link your participation to your computer or electronic device without first informing you.
If you begin or complete the survey and do not want your data to be included, you can indicate these wishes at the end of the survey, and we will manually delete your data. Because there are no personal identifiers, there is no additional opportunity to delete your data after your survey is closed, as we have no way of knowing which data is yours. We will keep our study records for a minimum of seven years. All records will be destroyed according to University of Waterloo policy.
These data, which do not contain any identifying information, will be exchanged between researchers and research assistants/apprentices. The shared data will be anonymous, and will have no identifying information. This information will be kept on the researchers/assistants/apprentices password-protected computers. In keeping with university and funding policies that are continuously evolving, anonymous datasets may be posted to a data repository, made available to the public, and/or made available to a researcher/apprentice/student at another institution/journal referee who requests the data. This survey uses Survey Monkey (TM), which is an American Company. When information is transmitted over the Internet, privacy cannot be guaranteed. There is always a risk your responses may be intercepted by a third party (e.g., government agencies, hackers). University of Waterloo researchers will not collect or use internet protocol (IP) addresses or other information which could link your participation to your computer or electronic device without first informing you.