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Kugai:
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supersheep:

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Because I am odd like that, and also need to practice my ability with the old stats concept, I did some fancy stats mangling on this. Median age was 20, and modal age was 15, with 10% of the votes. Standard deviation from the mean is 9.25 years. Ages 9-16 account for 28% of the sample. 32 are under 15, 111 under 20, and over 75% of Twilight fans are aged 26 or younger.

What conclusions can we draw from this?
1. The sample is self-selecting, and therefore we cannot know if it is representative of even the forum, let alone Twilight readers as a whole.
2. Assuming that it is representative, though, we can assume that the average Twilight reader is between 13 and 31 (80%), tending towards the lower half of this range - I'm sure there's a mathsy way of doing this, but I'ma guess 17 as the 'average' Twilight reader's age.
3. This Tesco Finest Fish Pie for Two is delicious but I am still hungry.
4. I have WAY too much time on my hands.

If the pernicious cultural influence of a text like this is not apparent, when it deliberately promotes such horrible values to an audience one third of which is under 16, you probably should go off and have a long hard think about just how pervasive many elements of modern culture are. The parallels between Twilight's fetishisation of an abusive relationship and the world's fetishisation of a particular body-type are pretty apparent to me - and look how well that body-fetishisation has served us.

Nodaisho:
Eris, I find that a lot of young adult books have characters a few years older than their target audience, if we are using the bizarre young adult definition of late elementary to about the end of junior high (9-13 or so). Probably to tap into the aspect of them being cool because they are older, so they have to be cool, regardless of how well they are actually written. Perhaps my point of view is skewed more than I think it is (I was reading 4th-5th grade books in 1st grade, and reading at a college level by 5th, according to the tests they kept having me take), but from my memory, YA books tend to have protagonists in their teens, how far into their teens tends to vary depending on what part of YA they are aiming at. A huge amount of the fandom that I have seen does seem to be late elementary to high school, with a majority in junior high.

I wouldn't trust the age results on an online poll, too many people lying.

Caleb:

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Nodaisho:
Caleb, you are a librarian, right? What have you seen with regards to Twilight's demographic (unless you already said it and I missed it, in which case point it out)?

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