I like to check out my favorite (or not so favorite) websites at Alexa sometimes. I looked at escapepod.org, and two things were interesting. One, it looks like traffic has been pretty steadily increasing over the last year or so, which is cool.
Second, it looks like people with graduate degrees are waaaaay over represented in Escape Pod's visitors. I checked some other science fiction sites, thinking that maybe overly educated people just really like science fiction, but I didn't see the same thing. I know Alexa isn't as accurate as it could be (how do they get that statistic anyway?). Then I thought, well, I have a graduate degree, and I visit the site at least once a week. I also have a friend of mine that listens occasionally, and she has a graduate degree too. In my not-very-representative sample of two, 100% of listeners has a graduate degree, so maybe there's something to it.
Can anyone tell me if Escape Pod's popularity is actually increasing, and if so, why might that be?
Do many of you have a ridiculously expensive amount of formal education?