Student Survey
We conducted a case study through a survey of just over 65 Stanford students in order to assess the continued significance of eyebrow design. Given that Stanford prides itself on being a diverse university of people from many different backgrounds, race, sexuality, and social class, we believe that while our survey focuses on a small portion of our Stanford community, it can serve as a representation of society at large.
We found that 75% of our students generally cared about their eyebrows. Interestingly enough we found that 15% did not care at all and only 10% cared to extreme accounts.
While 39% of people surveyed said they did not notice the design of other people's eyebrows, 61% said that they did in fact notice the design of other's. Maybe that's why we feel the need to maintain our own - we have been programmed to analyze and evaluate others'.
Our results show that 30% of people surveyed had never attempted to change the design of their eyebrows in any way. Similarly, 30% said that they have had their eyebrows threaded, waxed, or plucked by professionals. Finally 40% reported to have threaded, waxed, or plucked their eyebrows on their own. Contrary to our previous hypothesis of people trusting professionals to design brows, the majority of people saying that they maintain on their own suggest that people are more often concerned with how they look and are able to frequently touch up.
It was reported that 27% of students surveyed could not offer an age at which they began using eyebrow design procedures. One student reported to have started undergoing eyebrow design change procedure at age ten or younger. A majority of 43% students surveyed reported that they began eyebrow design procedures between the ages eleven and fifteen.
We found that 37% would spend $0 on eyebrow design procedures, 51% would be willing to spend up to $25, 9% would be willing to spend up to $45, and only 3% would be willing to spend up to $75.
We found that 39% of the students surveyed believe that dark, long, and thick eyebrows describe the dominant eyebrow design of today. Close behind, 29% found that light, thin, and short describe the dominant eyebrows today. Behind them were super shaped eyebrow design at 17% and straight eyebrow design at 11%. Only 9% believe that unruly eyebrows is the dominant design today.