Demographics “The Human Factor in Knowledge Processes” [Part 1]

The first batch of our collected research data will be analyzed this weekend and next week. An amazing number of 392 people from all across our beautiful planet have completed the questionnaire at this moment.

[IMPORTANT: This post will be updated since at this moment 479 people completed the questionnaire, and the analysis was based this larger number of participants. Our apologies for this inconvenience.]

Thank you all very much for your cooperation! Hopefully you’ll gain some insights or something else that’s usefull out of our results; or you might even win the MDF lottery: Keep your fingers crossed!

You can still participate, and will be included in our data update. If you like to, please do so before reading too much content of this site. Results will be more reliable that way.

We would like to share the demographics of our study with you.

Age Distribution

Figure 1: The distribution of the age of participants in the research "The Human Factor in Knowledge Processes"

As you can see in the figure, there is almost a ‘normal distribution’ of the age of participants. This means that, at sight, the sample seems to be a good representation of the total population to which we want to generalize. The age group 35-39 was most present (22%), closely followed by the category below 30-34 (20%).

Nationalities

A staggering amount of 88 different nationalities participated in the research.

Figure 2: Nationalities of the participants of the research "The Human Factor in Knowledge Processes" - The bigger the size of the word, the more participants it represents

The Dutch are most present, followed by natives of Kenya, Tanzania, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Germany, Nigeria and soforth. The nationalities of those that responded are mostly from countries where English is either an official, or a prominent second language. This was expected beforehand. We are looking for researchers who would like to do Spanish and French versions of our reserach. The strong presence of the Dutch can be explained by the homeground of weknowmore.org: the Netherlands.

Gender Division

As you can see looking at the infographic, more men than women participated. We will specifically investigate whether there are significant differences between the two sexes. Research has shown that gender was of influence, but there is no clear consensus about whether women or men are more active in knowledge sharing or reflecting. It will be interesting to see the outcomes of this research in that respect.

More demographics and other results of this research will be published soon! For the latest weknowmore.org results, you can register for an e-mail subscription or a RSS-feed here.