CANON vs. FANON -- Reality vs. Imagination

People who aren't really part of any so-called obsessive fandoms may not be aware of this, but there are really quite a few large-ish battle being waged によって sometimes even fanatic people, mostly on this one subject: canon. Is it equivalent to the Holy Bible または not? Is the word of the 作者 really and truly what goes? But wait, maybe I should back up a little.
To put it simply, canon includes everything about a book series etc. that has been verified によって the author/other creator. It can include anything from birthdays and deathdays to who married who, and indeed it's often the latter, usually referred to as "shipping", that lights the biggest fires. Everyone has their own personal favourite, and if JK Rowling never intended for Harry to be gay and fall in 愛 with Draco Malfoy, so what? What does it matter that JRR Tolkien probably never have envisioned Legolas and Gimli embarking on a wild, inter-species romance? This, my friends, is what we call fanon. Anything and everything that isn't officially verified but is still recognised within fandoms as something some people "ship", think, または otherwise believe. 

But why should we be interested in the differences of canon and fanon? 
Well, the reason is simple, really: I want to investigate whether people prefer canon または fanon. This goal would be easiest to accomplish using a survey study. The most practical solution would probably be to デザイン a series of 質問 and then start spreading them on the internet along with an Eメール address, mainly in places that members of various fandoms frequent, such as フェイスブック ファン pages and other various ファン sites and forums. It would be important to remember to spread the survey amongst multiple fandoms, unless the goal were to find out the percentage of canon supporters in a specific fandom -- which, in this case, it isn't. 
Using this method, one wouldn't really need other materials than the 質問 themselves and a working Eメール address for 回答 to be sent to. Of course, having some kind of system to record 回答 and display them clearly at any part of the process would also be useful -- あなた could, for example, make a 表, テーブル with the number of the 質問 in the vertical row and a slot for each of the 回答 in the horizontal row, if the 質問 were multiple choice. This way あなた could easily keep track of how many people have picked which answer. 
Some example 質問 that could be asked:
- On a whole, do あなた prefer canon または fanon?
- When considering ships/pairings only, canon または fanon?
- Do あなた consider Wikias (fan-made 記事 databases, based on the Wikipedia format) strict canon?
Also, it may be interesting to ask some demographical 質問 like age, gender and country to see whether stereotypes such as "young people believe everything and therefore support canon" または "Indian people 愛 happy endings" are true, even in the slightest. 

My hypothesis is that if a "I support both" option is given, the vast majority will pick that. Speaking from personal experience as a member of a so-called obssessive fandom, it's near impossible to pick just one, because so many people ship so many pairings etc. that あなた can't ask them to pick only half of them. If, however, あなた were to be so cruel, I estimate that well over half would side with fanon, since the support of gay pairings and other unofficial things has skyrocketed in the past few years.

and that, my friends, is 600 words of pure bullshit, also known as the Psych research plan I'm turning in on Friday unless I can think of a better reseach 質問 and type it all out before then :p