2015 according to our readers: 8 popular surveys and the results from them

In a little over 24 hours from now, most of the world will either have begun, or started preparing to celebrate the come of the new year. For no other than organizational and rather arbitrary reasons, most of humanity has deemed tomorrow an important day—the gateway to another year. Of course, time doesn't really care what us puny humans call it, it just exists regardless of what we do or don't do. But for civilization, it's more than a random cause for celebration—it's also time for retrospection and strategizing for the future.