MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 16--MORE READER RESPONSES WELCOME!
Thanks to more than 600 non-academic readers who responded to the earlier poll; here are the results
| on-academic readers, what is your field or profession? | ||
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| Selection | Votes | |
| Medicine or medical profession |  4% |
23 |
| Journalism |  2% |
14 |
| Law or legal profession |  20% |
122 |
| Librarian |  3% |
21 |
| Teacher (not at the university level) |  8% |
47 |
| Engineer or scientist |  7% |
43 |
| Religion (e.g., minister, rabbi, theologian) |  2% |
14 |
| Information technology |  13% |
81 |
| Business or finance |  10% |
59 |
| Politics or government | 6% |
39 |
| Writer (fiction, non-fiction, poetry) | 4% |
27 |
| Other profession | 14% |
84 |
| None | 6% |
34 |
I'll invite comments from readers on a couple of things. First, I''m curious to hear about the "other professions" that I left out among my choices. Second, I'd be interested in more details about, e.g., the government work or the IT work etc. that you'd care to provide, since the categories were obviously broad. Finally, if anyone cares to say why they read (did you study philosophy at one point? are you here for other stuff?), I'd find that useful.
