so a few days ago i made this post in which i hypothesised that the mcelroy brother a fan first clicked with was likely to be the brother that shared their position as a sibling (so for example i am an oldest sibling and i got justin’s humour best first)
let’s look at the responses. to begin with, the raw data:
total participants: 66
total only children: 7
total with siblings: 59
total matching sibling: 39
total different sibling: 20
now let’s look at it in pie chart form! (note that these only include participants with siblings)
and for each brother…
conclusion: there does seem to be
a trend of fans with siblings preferring the brother that matches their
position. it is my reasoning that this is the case because a person’s sibling position can have a lot of bearing on how they are socialised, so they will often be drawn to others with similar socialisation. the trend is marked with justin and griffin, but much less so with travis. this could be due to the fact that middle siblings were much less prevalent among the respondents.
there does not seem to be a trend
in which brother only children prefer.
evaluation: this data is from a
very small sample size and cannot be considered infallible. more data points
may show different trends. to improve next time, i would consider having equal numbers of oldest, middle, youngest and only children in my sample to remove the weighting against travis.
a supplementary conclusion: i have realised while collating this data that i have far too much time on my hands and need to go outside more. the excuse i gave myself that it would give me practice writing up practicals for my biology a-level is lukewarm at best. and now i’m going to have a driving lesson.
take time to figure it out 