Poll Results Continued

Thursday, 6th March 2008 23:09

Following from the Morning Musume, Berryz Koubou, ºC-ute Poll Results post, I want to take a look little further into the data submitted by everyone taking part. To start with I want to look at what is possibly the most interesting and surprising result from the poll, the fact that the girls out weighed the guys. Then I want to break down the original results and try looking at them from a different angles, lol I'll think of any excuse to get Koha closer to the top ;p
I want to have a look at how not ony how the votes went according to country but how they went compared to age and sex. I'm typing this up and as yet I've yet to see these results...at the moment I've still to write the pieces of MySQL to extract the data, time for a cup of tea, a couple of hob nobs and a pen of paper. I'm going to try keep my comments on the results to a minimum, mainly because this post is going to be long and picture heavy.

I mentioned in the original post that I was surprised about the results of gender, I thought for definite that the results would come in favour of the males, after all we're talking about 3 groups consisting of girls, a total of 23 girls, 23 girls each with their own look and personality, 23 girls of which half have photobooks releases where at some point they are in a bikini...can you see where I'm going with this? Personally I'm not only shocked at my trail of thought but a little disappointed in myself, I've done exactly what almost every person has done when I mention H!P. I've gone down the route of the perv, I've presumed the results of the poll would work out something like this, 23 attractive girls+male obsession with attractive girls=lot's of male fans. Now I'm not saying that this isn't true, there's no denying the girls have looks and I'm sure there are people out there that like the girls purely and solely for this reason but I'd like to think for the majority of us this isn't the reason, where's the fun in watching a PV or concert with the sound on mute? But still even with this I would have thought that the results would have shown more male fans over females, even if it was only a little. To be honest this result has been a pleasant surprise.
To look into this a little further I've combined the results of Age and Sex together to create a graph to show how the two look when combined. I did this for two reasons, the first out of plain curiosity, what was the average person who took the poll, but secondly because of a comment Gummi posted, which included an image to quote Gummi "Taken from Best Artist 2007 07-12-11 It (the image) shows the stats of all the Japanese Fans that voted for Morning Musume to be on Best Artist", now although these results are for an entierly different poll I thought it might be interesting to compare results, after all they both look at the fans that have voted. The first image shows the results for this poll, the next is the results from the Best Artist.


Annoyingly I've just realised that I've put the female above male whilst the other image has it the other way around! But anyway.
To make the images even harder to compare the bottom image has no labelled X axis, we can only literally go by comparing the length of the bars and unfortunately there's no way of knowing how accurate this is, and for this reason I don't want to spend too long commenting on the results, there's so many differences between the two that it would be hard to properly compare in any great detail, but it's good for a quick comparison.
The most noticeable and obvious difference is the fact that the majority of fans voting on our poll we're between the ages of 11-30, whereas the other poll has a fairly consistent fan base throughout the whole of the age ranges. I was going to comment on possible reasons as to why this could be, but I think I'm going to leave it as I can see myself taking the jump with the results that I don't really want to do and turning the results of the 'average person that took the poll' into the 'average H!P/Morning Musume/Berryz/C-ute fan' which personally I think is too big a step to take, although I'm up for discussing it in the comments if anyone feels like it.

Next I want to look at point raised by Strawberrie and how the difference in gender may affect the results of the poll. In her comment she observes that Koha is more liked by male fans, this comment has got me wondering how we rate the members of each unit according to gender, I'll also split the results into age as well. Below you will find the images reflecting male and female voting for each unit, the left hand side is male and the right is female.


Interestingly with these results it shows that both male and female fans have a very similar preferance to members within a unit, certainly with the results for Berryz and C-ute both sexes voted in a very similar way, with only 2 members changing position and in both these weren't drastic changes and only involve two adjescent members switching positions. We see Risako gaining a place in male voting raising to 2nd place, whilst in C-ute we Nakki gain a position to 5th in the male vote.
It's the Morning Musume that most changes have been made when comparing. Again it's noting drastic, we don't find Koha jumping up 5 position or anything like that but we do see 6 members shift their position. The female vote is very similar to that of the final results, the only difference being that in the final results Sayumi raises up a position from the female voted position of 6 to 5th. The male vote however has a number of changes. In these results, Gakisan who come first overall and in the female vote falls down to 3rd place and is replaced by last years favourite Aichan, compartively to the female results we see Sayu rise above Junjun and Koha above Mittsi. It looks like the male fan base does rate Koharu more than the female fan base does, although not by much it would seem.


The above images, shows a break down of the results through ages, the images read from left to right starting with -10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50 and 50+ this order will be carried on with both the Berryz and C-ute results below. Looking through the Morning Musume results it's clear to see that there is one slightly sad constant, Linlin is always at the bottom, even Koha and Mittsi make it in to the top three at one point, but poor old Linlin constantly falls into last place.


My worry with the Berryz votes, esepcially after seeing Linlin's positioning in the previous lot of results, was that Maasa would face a similar situation, but thankfully this isn't the case and she even manages to break into the top 3, on the 41-50 results.


I find the C-ute results most interesting out of all of them. Right from the start of the poll I always though that these results would be vaired, looking through the age results we can see that this is the case, Maimi who overall comes out in the top position rises and falls throughout the results and is one of the few members to be not only in the first position but within the age results last as well. Off topic, lately I find myself more drawn to C-ute than I do Morning Musume, overall it would have to be Morning Musume as my favourite H!P group, but at this very moment in time my favourite group would have to be C-ute. It makes me semi glad that I never added the 'Rank the Group' section at the end of the poll as it would have really been a difficult dicission to make.

Now to look at the results accoriding to country. This time around votes were submitted from quite a few countries, 51 in total. Right at the top of this list is the USA with 349 voters, which is just over double the number of American voters from last last year, the number of UK voters has also risen, from 44 too 66. The Japanese voters have decreased this time around, from 43 down to 11. Unfortunatly these are the only country results I have from the previous poll, so I can't compare any others, but this time around I've included the list of countries and the number of voters for each below. Because people have been requesting to see individual country results I'll display the results for each of the countries that reached double voting figures, if you want to see the results for a country that hasen't reached double figures let me know and I will post it up.


USA

Brazil

Canada

UK

France

Malaysia

Singapore

Mexico

Spain

Philippines

Australia

Finland

Indonesia

Germany

Chile

Sweden

Thailand

Italy

Norway

Poland

Japan

Hong Kong

China (Excluding Hong Kong's Results)

China (Including Hong Kong's Results)


TAGS [ Berryz C-ute Morning Musume ]
Posted Thursday, 6th March 2008 23:09 | 5081 Reads

Comments

Comment by Katie on Friday, 7th March 2008 00:48
I'm very glad to see Kanna so high on the Australian poll, seems all us Aussie's think alike :-p
Great work... its really cool to be able to go through the countries and compare!


Comment by Ken on Friday, 7th March 2008 06:27
Seems like Sayumi's firmly rooted in average-ville in all but a few countries and demographics ; ;


Comment by Wahashimoto on Friday, 7th March 2008 11:32
I was thinking the exact same thing, Katie.

It seems I hve a female-wired brain when it comes to ranking Momusu. Haha, except LinLin did come 8th in mine. Speaking of LinLin, she came last in all but two countries. She musn't beas popular as I thought.

I was interested to see Captain rank highly in a lot of countries.

Good work with processing al this data, paul. I would've given up halfway. x.x


Comment by silenceglaive on Friday, 7th March 2008 20:53
O_O Nice Statistics .. there are some points I find interesting:

1. Germany voted exactly like Indonesia? Interestingly one of the few countries that set Risako first. (Only Germany Indonesia and Italy did)

2. Comparing with my votings I am somehow "relived" or "shocked" how averagely I voted :P .. It'd be intersting how big the variance in the voting is for the said groups...

3. As I know I vote older than I am .. "lucky" for me in not so many years I end up int he group that voted like 90% like me :P

-> So what's the conclusion .. seems I am a pretty average german male that is only slightly older in brain then on the passport :P


Comment by Hapichan on Saturday, 8th March 2008 09:35
It's so interesting! O_O How different each age/country votes. And some of them are TOTALLY different. I found it VERY interesting that the Philippines put Sayumi first xD Also some of the countries didn't rate Niigaki so high (which I'm glad >_>) and it's interesting to see a lot of countries put Eri first o_o

Thank you Paul T__T I'm honestly amazed and look up to you for doing this <3

<3 Melissa
Hapichan



Comment by Lefty on Sunday, 9th March 2008 18:31
I'd be interested to know how Hong Kong voted. I wonder if they gave JunJun and LinLin the hometown advantage and put them higher up on the ranks.


Comment by EEE on Sunday, 9th March 2008 20:43
Wow... that's a lot of data... are you a statistician? lol


Comment by LeeYuRi on Monday, 10th March 2008 09:42
hehe, I'm the only one in VIetnam take part in this poll T_______T
In vietnam, there're only under 100 people interested in H!P stuff T_T
hix hix hix T____________________T


Comment by paul.thomas on Monday, 10th March 2008 11:37
Lefty, I've included the results for both Hong Kong and China, if you look at the Chinese vote (excluding Hong Kong's) then you can see that JunJun comes quite near the top, Linlin isn't placed as highly but it's good to see that she wasn't last (well until the results are combined).
It took quite awhile to get all the results up but I think it was well worth it, it's really good to be able to compare them.
Lol @EEE, no I'm not a statistician, I'm actually not that good at maths and the like, I was very much along the lines of "I'll never need any of this" when I was in school when it came to maths...then I decided I wanted to go in to computers...oh dear, sometimes I wish I'd paid a lot more attention.


Comment by Kusumi on Tuesday, 11th March 2008 04:32
Poor LinLIn is last on so many!!!! I feel so bad for her <3


Comment by TC. on Wednesday, 12th March 2008 00:19
That's a lot of cool data in there. I never quite realize how many HP fans there are in Brazil! I hope you keep giving us fun ranking like this every so often:)


Comment by Helmi on Saturday, 15th March 2008 11:29
Wow look at Malaysia! Top 10 and top the other Asia continent with 46 voters. Go go Malaysia HP! fans! Good job Mr. Paul! ")


Comment by miyu on Sunday, 28th June 2009 16:53
wow, miyabi can be at the first place and in the last place >.<
anyway, go miya!


Comment by Yumi on Friday, 23rd October 2009 22:41
OMG!!!!!!! Momo is in number one on most of them!!!!! so happy GET IN THERE MOMO XD her cutness are always the best 4 ever XD. Koharu shoul get higher than that, she is sooo great XD

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