Rush and Female Engagement: A Scientific Study

 

Kevin Kostrzewa, Noted Data Scientitian

Abstract

The Canadian progressive rock band, Rush, is long considered the consummate “guy’s band”, featured in such media as the film “I Love You, Man”, only enjoyed by men. The goal of this research was to see if this was a fact based observation. I test the argument  by using survey data in a non-randomized sample of whoever of my friends was bored enough to humor me by answering.

Keywords

Canadian Rock, Toque, Hoser, 9/8 time signature

Methodology

To support this, I created a survey using the so-called free application “Polls for Pages”. The survey had an n of ostensibly 43, but only the first 40 are free, and I’m super cheap, so n=40. 

My data set is self reported females, but people lie like rugs on the Internet, so who knows who answered. I am concerned that one of my answers came from my cat-dog, Milo. But, still, I press on.

Questions range from the mundane (“As an identified female, I like Rush”), to the probing (“As an identified female, I am ambivalent toward Rush”), to the outrageously provocative (“As an identified female, I dislike Rush”). I also included “Other”, for reasons unknown even to me.

This data was collected between 2021-04-16 08:04:16 and 2021-04-17 14:34:40. Learn how to read YYYY-MM-DD formatted dates, sheeple.

Findings

Raw data

As an identified female, I like Rush	9 votes	23.1%
As an identified female, I am ambivalent toward Rush	14 votes	35.9%
As an identified female, I dislike Rush	11 votes	28.2%
Other	5 votes	12.8%

Other 

• While I acknowledge the technical and artistic brilliance of the band Gettys voice slays my eardrums in a bad way and Neil Peart’s political theories are stinky.

• *WOMAN, first of all.  Second, I am Rush-ambivalent.

• As an apparently very male, male, who was once called Smed by a very not male, male, I don’t know that I can offer anything meaningful here, but I will try my best.

• My now husband loves Rush! So I took him to a Rush documentary on our first date. Found their lyrics to be thoughtful and cool and love that there was no line for the ladies restroom at their concerts.

Pie Chart

Bar Chart

Triangle Chart

No such thing exists. Grow up.

Conclusions

I have too much free time on my hands. I am also cheap when it comes to seeing a joke through. Finally, I should have considered the free Google forms to begin with, which is a double-duh considering how much I use the Google free applications.

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