PREFERENCE POLL

I recently asked you readers to list your preferences for the content of TRANSVESTIA in order of most to least interest and gave you seven categories. I got some replies alright, but this is what is so discourag- ing to editors. Try as I will to get some involvement and participation out of so many of you I got, how many replies? Several hundred? No! Maybe 50? No!. Would you believe 18? Well that's right 18 replies only. I don't know what the rest of you think and I have no way of knowing whether the magazine serves your needs or not. I can only hope it does. out this way.

I gave 7 points to the most liked category and on down. Thus there were 18 x 7 or 126 total points possible.

True Experiences Histories

Pictures

Fiction

Instructional Editorials Cartoons

94 points or 75% of the possible. 83 points or 67% of the possible. 80 points or 64% of the possible. 77 points or 61% of the possible. 73 points or 57% of the possible. 68 points or 54% of the possible. 29 points or 23% of the possible.

About all of any significance that one can derive from this is that cartoons are not very popular and thats why there aren't too many, and that true experiences are the most. Everything else is much the same; every category having some 7s or 6s and some 1s and 2s, so the preferences really spread over all categories.

Since the total vote was small and didn't really reveal much I'll just keep on as I have and try to put in a little of everything every time hoping to please all of the readers some of the time. But since so many of you are interested in things bearing on other FPs lives - experiences, histories, pictures, etc. I hope that more of you can be persuaded to submit material in that category. Tell about some particular event or experience that you have been through and share it. I just don't get nearly as much material in any of the other categories as I do in fiction yet it scores way down in the middle.

Way back in TVia No. 5 I reported on a similar survey and I got similar results (tho there was a better response from readers in those days) and the articles about real FPs were better received then as now. So, if that's what you like, do your share and send in your experiences.