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Dollarmansteve · 05-25-2006, 09:17 AM

lets state some facts and stats:

The TOTAL amounts of votes cast was 60+ million, which is more than any SINGLE presidential candidate has gotten, but about half of what the last election got in total.

I believe that the show itself has about 30 Million viewers - Lets assume that 20 million of those viewers cast votes - that means each person that voted would have cast 3 votes on average sincle multiple votes are allowed.

Also, lets assume that the number of votes per voter is negatively correlated to age, therefore a 12 year old is more likely to cast more than three votes, and that voting propensity drops as age increases - so a 30 year old (for example) is most like to only vote once.

So, assuming the bulk of the viewing audience is in the 12 - 34 age demographic and that young, teenaged girls are the most likey to vote.. I would say that perhaps as high as 40% of the people that voted were teenaged girls under the age of 18 and cast an average of 5 votes each. So, of the 60 million votes cast, 40 Million of them may have come from 12 - 17 year old girls.

So until their votes count in presidential elections - all this talk is complete crap.

But then again, 63% of all statistics are made up on the spot

05-25-2006, 09:17 AM
Dollarmansteve Confirmed User Join Date: May 2005 Location: T.O. Posts: 2,849	lets state some facts and stats: The TOTAL amounts of votes cast was 60+ million, which is more than any SINGLE presidential candidate has gotten, but about half of what the last election got in total. I believe that the show itself has about 30 Million viewers - Lets assume that 20 million of those viewers cast votes - that means each person that voted would have cast 3 votes on average sincle multiple votes are allowed. Also, lets assume that the number of votes per voter is negatively correlated to age, therefore a 12 year old is more likely to cast more than three votes, and that voting propensity drops as age increases - so a 30 year old (for example) is most like to only vote once. So, assuming the bulk of the viewing audience is in the 12 - 34 age demographic and that young, teenaged girls are the most likey to vote.. I would say that perhaps as high as 40% of the people that voted were teenaged girls under the age of 18 and cast an average of 5 votes each. So, of the 60 million votes cast, 40 Million of them may have come from 12 - 17 year old girls. So until their votes count in presidential elections - all this talk is complete crap. But then again, 63% of all statistics are made up on the spot __________________ I died.