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nerdydancing OP t1_j8e38cb wrote

HOW I MADE THE VISUALIZATION: Numbers and Photoshop. Over the years I always kept a daily log of my earnings and other data.

BACKGROUND: A few weeks ago I posted my daily stripper earnings over four years. My initial comment on that post has a lot of basic info about strip club earnings if you are interested (all earnings shown are net after tip-outs and fees but before taxes). Some commenters asked if the Super Bowl brought in extra revenue so I decided to take a look. Keep in mind that this is ONE stripper's experience over only four Super Bowls.

ABOUT THE DAILY AVERAGE: I considered a few options for what to compare the Super Bowl Sunday and Monday earnings to. I went with the entire prior year's average (counting from the Tuesday after the prior Super Bowl to the Saturday before the relevant Super Bowl). As you can see, my average went up as the years went on and I became better at earning, so maybe it's unfair to use shifts as old as 11 months prior. I considered using an average from some time prior AND after the game. I also considered using Sunday and Monday shifts only because days of the week did tend to be different. Curious to hear thoughts on what would be the most interesting comparison.

LOCAL EFFECT: None of the Super Bowls were played where I danced (Los Angeles area) which obviously would have had a huge impact because of the influx of visitors. Only one game featured an LA team. Anecdotally, I did notice a boost in earnings on days when regular NFL games were played locally. I remember one busy Sunday afternoon in particular when there was a blowout and tons of fans from both teams bailed on the game early and came to the strip club instead.

WAS SUPER BOWL RELEVANT AT ALL: Looking back on my notes, I can point to lots of factors that may have influenced my earnings. The 2/5/17 Super Bowl ($84) was at a club that I was doing very poorly at, so my low earnings were actually not bad for that spot at that time (the Raiders bikiniI I wore may have helped or hurt my cause). The Monday after the 2/4/18 Super Bowl ($1,670) was my best shift ever and was thanks to a one-time-only high-rolling customer. I didn't even do any private dances with him; he just tipped me while I sat and talked with him. He said he was spending because of his divorce, but who knows, maybe he had won a lot of Super Bowl bets the day before. The Monday after the 2/2/20 Super Bowl similarly included a one-time-only medium-rolling customer (along with two of my regulars).

I WAS NOT OVULATING: I got this question so many times on my last post that I'm just pre-empting it here. I do not ovulate.

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A RUDE COMMENT: My last post had plenty, so in addition to being offensive and unfunny, just know that you are also being unoriginal.

Thanks for reading!

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jmirvish t1_j8dofq6 wrote

I've been working as a psychiatrist since prior to the pandemic. Certainly, everyone simultaneously dealing with an unflinching stressor led to a huge increase in adjustment disorders, though I will say that from a mood/anxiety standpoint, people proved more resilient than I would've assumed -- it's a testament to the human ability to adjust to things.

It would be interesting to see self reports like these plotted alongside diagnosis rates of disorders like Major Depressive or Generalized Anxiety disorders. The pandemic also happened to crop up during a societal shift in mindfulness and public identification of mental health issues, which even several years prior would have been more of a taboo to disclose. The truth is that nearly 100% of people experience at least transient, clinically significant periods of sadness or worry in their lives, and there's no way to know which proportion of any of these respondents would meet threshold for any kind of diagnosis.

In spite of the upward trend of the chart, I think this reflects a positive trend overall. Stressed or sad people who answered yes to this survey are either seeking help or more likely to do so than the people in this survey who feel the same way inside but said no when asked. Over the course of my brief career so far I've already seen a shift in people's engagement in care. I hope it continues

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