You may very well be right, I think I can see your interpretation being true -- we need to start interviewing people to verify, though! Or maybe we'll uncover some other trend that we hadn't thought of in the xkcd readership.
What it doesn't account for, though -- why are so many clearly non-GATI people taking it upon themselves to read xkcd? Perhaps it has a much broader appeal than I'm imagining it has? ...
It's really, really popular these days, it seems. There are plenty of individual xkcds that are funny or interesting to a general audience, or maybe to a specific audience that differs from the specific audience that the comic as a whole is geared toward. Those spread around pretty fast.
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You may very well be right, I think I can see your interpretation being true -- we need to start interviewing people to verify, though! Or maybe we'll uncover some other trend that we hadn't thought of in the xkcd readership.
What it doesn't account for, though -- why are so many clearly non-GATI people taking it upon themselves to read xkcd? Perhaps it has a much broader appeal than I'm imagining it has? ...
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