A while back I decided to make a survey about how often people in the community sneeze and share the (anonymised) data publically. But I forgot to share the survey here. The survey is at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScT5CJ91tFLacYivfUJjVZKvxLXFo0932MSvLSC8UQOdoS_sw/viewform and the data is at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vqaW-3cmIvlqdLwnV4CPYVRlxZDtNQaIZ2MixF5TOl4/edit?usp=sharing. I'd really appreciate it if people filled it out because the more people do, the more robust any conclusion we can draw from it are.
So far, we can conclude that people sneeze significantly more with colds than during allergy season and both allergies and colds make people more likely to sneeze in multiples. Although there still isn't any evidence of a relationship between how often people sneeze with seasonal allergies and the number of sneezes per set, there is evidence of a relationship for colds and in the absence of either. Although a linear regression doesn't fit, using some statistical techniques (kendall's and spearman's tests) I semi-understand, I'm able to say that if someone sneezes more frequently, they are also more likely to sneeze in multiples ( p<0.06 for regular and p<0.02 for colds), so co-incidence is unlikely (obviously these two statistics aren't independent though, so I can't claim anywhere near a 0.0012 significance level.) These tests work by comparing ranks, (as in is the 5th most frequent sneezer also likely to sneeze the 5th most per set) and found a significant (if somewhat week) relationship. As far as I know this is currently unstudied so it would be really great if more people could fill out the survey to make this conclusion more robust. (and if someone who actually knows some stats could check that I've not made a stupid mistake)
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