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[RC] AERC Survey question on age requirements to ride - Michael Maul

The survey was done in Nov of 2004. There were about 1550 total responses to the survey. Of the 1550 - about 1080 answered the age question. Of those 1080 - 53% said yes and 47% said no.

One view of the response is that this means that a slim majority wants an age restriction. Another view says that the other 470 who didn't answer the question didn't care enough to answer and the percent of the responders saying yes was 570/1550 or only 37% of the members taking the questionnaire wanted an age restriction.

Given that the SE region regional organization has a requirement - some members of the BoD guessed that the SE biased the vote. I checked and the responders from the SE region had the same small preference for an age limit that the whole country did. See attached note. In addition - the number of SE region responders matched their percentage of the membership - meaning that there no bias to the results by this being a "hot button" for that region.

Here's the actual numbers

61. Should the AERC have an age restriction for junior riders? Number of
Responses
Response Ratio
Yes 570 52.7%
No 511 47.3%
Total 1081 100%

Of the ones who said yes

62. If yes to age restriction, what should it be? Number of
Responses
Response Ratio
1.At least 5 years old 79 13.5%
2.At least 6 years old 59 10.1%
3.At least 7 years old 94 16.1%
4.At least 8 years old 188 32.1%
5.More than 8 years old 165 28.2%
Total 585 100%

Here's part of a post I made concerning the results of the question concerning whether AERC should have an age requirement.

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Members tended to answer the all the questions depending on whether it
applied to them or not.  Interesting enough - the number of responses on
the age limit questions was about the same number that responded to the
questions about families so they may be the ones concerned.

As far as responses to the question by region - 146 of the 1081
responses to the question came from the SE region and of those 146 - 76
voted yes and 70 voted no.

This is very much in line with what the total group of 1081 voted for -
52%.  I don't see any bias here by the SE toward age limits.  The yes
and no were spread across all the regions very much as the distribution
of the membership by region answering the question.  13.6% of the
members responding to the whole survey were from the SE region.  Of
those voting on the age question - 13.5% were from the SE region.

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