Age Demographics of Readers
After a little more than 3 hours into the Sunday Poll I noticed someone had just made repeated votes for two categories that minutes earlier had none — so I immediately stopped the poll. Here are the results prior to the vote tampering:
Q: What is your age?
- Less than 12: 0 [0%]
- 12-17: 0 [0%]
- 18-24: 1 [1.35%
- 25-34: 9 [12.16%]
- 35-44: 4 [5.41%]
- 45-54: 5 [6.76%]
- 55-64: 2 [2.7%]
- 65-74: 3 [4.05%]
- 75+: 0 [0%]
Twenty-four votes isn’t many, but this is about what’s received by that point each Sunday. Minutes later I noticed the “Less than 12” and “75+” answers each now had 25 votes, for a total of 74. I get it — not everyone likes to disclose their age — even anonymously in 10-year categories. I don’t get sabotaging the poll.
The early poll results show an older demographic than the engaged readers on Facebook — not surprising. In February I turned 48 — looking forward to AARP discounts in two years.
— Steve Patterson
i guess some people have nothing better to do than mess with blog polls- what a moron.
anyway, as i stated, i am proudly 54- i don’t use hair dye to color my gray, don’t wear a rug/toupee, or don’t use viagra…yet. haha thanks, sarge