| What is your gender? | Number | Percent | Which range includes your age? | Number 2 | Percent 2 | What do you think about the rumors that Dr. Carson Beckett is going to be killed off/written out of Stargate Atlantis during the second half of Season Three? | Number 3 | Percent 3 | Say for a moment it turns out to be true: Dr. Carson Beckett will be permanently killed in Season 3, with no return planned. What do you think your reaction will be? | Number 4 | Percent 5 | If Carson Beckett is written out of the series, and assuming this was not the actors choice, how will it affect your viewing habits of the show? | Number 5 | Percent 4 | Looking over the history of SG-1 and Atlantis, what do you think of character death in Stargate? | Number 6 | Percent 6 | |
| Male | 52 | 16.4% | 12-17 years | 33 | 10.4% | I don't believe anything horrible is going to happen to Carson or anyone else on Atlantis. | 25 | 7.9% | No matter how it's done, I won't mind losing him. | 11 | 3.5% | It won't have any effect on my viewing of Atlantis. | 107 | 33.8% | Its almost always been handled well, and I ended up believing the deaths were worth it overall. | 33 | 10.4% | |
| Female | 265 | 83.6% | 18-24 years | 96 | 30.3% | I don't believe anything horrible is going to happen to Carson, but some other character might be killed off. | 27 | 8.5% | If the episode is well done, I'll accept losing him. | 51 | 16.1% | I'll be less committed to watching Atlantis than I am now. | 128 | 40.4% | It has usually been handled well, though some deaths were unnecessary or not worth the loss of the character. | 144 | 45.4% | |
| 25-34 years | 86 | 27.1% | I believe something less severe than permanent death is going to happen to Carson. | 41 | 12.9% | No matter how good the episode is, losing him will be unacceptable to me. | 229 | 72.2% | I'll stop watching new episodes of Atlantis. | 34 | 10.7% | I don't think Stargate is good at character deaths. They're usually done for shock value only, with no long-term effects. | 81 | 25.6% | ||||
| 35-54 years | 99 | 31.2% | I believe Carson is going to be killed off and written out of the show. | 41 | 12.9% | I'm not sure how I'll react! | 26 | 8.2% | I'll stop watching any episodes of Atlantis. | 7 | 2.2% | Stargate has a horrible track record when it comes to killing off characters in way that makes me believe it was worth it. | 40 | 12.6% | ||||
| 55+ years | 3 | 0.9% | I've read all the rumors, and I'm not sure what to believe! | 148 | 46.7% | I'm not sure how it will affect my viewing habits. | 41 | 12.9% | I haven't formed an opinion on the matter. | 19 | 6.0% | |||||||
| I haven't formed an opinion on the matter. | 35 | 11.0% | ||||||||||||||||
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