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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7851428" data-attributes="member: 177">I remain unconvinced.The analysis based on twitter followers is completely bogus in this context.  You aren't going to see many twitter followers of the movie under 11 years old when few people under 11 years old have a twitter account.  The average age of twitter fans, by this selective nature of twitter, won't tell you much about the average age of fans, in general.And, again, the average age of ticket purchasers doesn't tell you much, for the same reasons - kids usually don't buy their own tickets!  And in the second article you link there, they don't seem to tell us how we get "ticket holders".  It isn't like you have to show ID while holding a ticket.  So, again, questionable statistics.The third article you cite in this post merely asserts what a typical fan is like - they do not seem to say how they came by that profile.  They don't even say what they mean when they say, "A typical Star Wars fan is likely <x>."  Is that an average, is that, "over 50% of people in the theater fit this profile"? So, I don't find any of those statistics convincing.</blockquote>