So this is obviously a highly scientific study of comedy preference within age demographic. I was fortunate enough to get responses from 245 people regarding individual prelation for either Conan O'brien, the current host of The Tonight Show, or Jay Leno, the has-been host of the Tonight Show.
Results were as expected, younger demographics preferred Conan and older ones (actually all older demographics ended up being hunked into one category, but it didn't make a difference), preferred Jay. Although the outcome of this research was easily anticipated, the interesting facts came from the outliers. My observations showed that preference was correlated with means of survey... in other words, I was more likely to get a "Conan" response from some one I surveyed via text or online messaging as opposed to on the phone or in person. Most outliers were surveyed differently from others in their age group. Any one over 40 who answered "Conan" I did not speak with directly.
A major flaw to my research is that every person I surveyed is a friend or aquaintance of mine, so it scews the data in favor of Conan. However, I still think my sample group is large enough to get some facts from. What I found most interesting were the "not sure" responses; they were all respondants in their upper 40's. Well, this is all great data... for me to poop on.
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