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Lemmie wrote:Yes, hence the quick and dirty; if I factored in a percentage of active who attend/watch general conferences, let alone other types of conferences, the set of female watchers would be much smaller. My prediction would be far, far less than even half a million. Clearly nowhere near the 'millions' stated.

Agreed.
But for the sake of balance let's assume 3 of the 5.4 are female and that females are more diligent than males at watching Conference. Considering the age for attendees I'd suggest the absolute maximum audience would be 2 million.

Lemmie wrote:Are you kidding? Or just joshing me?! I said it was quick and dirty, so I assumed the 0-12 group could stand in for the one minus 0-8 group.

But just for you, assuming the 0-12 group is distributed evenly:

5{1-[2/3)50]/[(2/3)50+100]}(0.56)=2.09.

Still requires 96% of total adult female population to attend. Alas, no angels! Thanks, cinepro.

cinepro wrote:

Lemmie wrote:Are you kidding? Or just joshing me?! I said it was quick and dirty, so I assumed the 0-12 group could stand in for the one minus 0-8 group.

But just for you, assuming the 0-12 group is distributed evenly:

5{1-[2/3)50]/[(2/3)50+100]}(0.56)=2.09.

Still requires 96% of total adult female population to attend. Alas, no angels! Thanks, cinepro.

Honestly, I'm pretty disappointed that they would claim millions watching when they know that isn't true. I haven't felt like this since I went to a monster truck rally when I was 11 and it wasn't the most awesome-awesome-awesome event in the history of Sacramento.

You just don't get over being lied to about something like that.

cinepro wrote:

Lemmie wrote:My interest was caught by one commenter who called for a reference on the 'millions more watching by satellite.'

Just quick and dirty:
>suppose 1/3 activity rate, so 15m X 1/3 =
5 million.
>from BYU vital stats, children < 12 % ranges from 60 to 30 children per 100 adults, with the higher ratio concentrated where there are more members, so let's say there are 50 children per 150 total, or 1/3, therefore 5 million x 2/3 =
3.33 million.
>as per Pew forum researchers, 56% of adult Mormons are female, 0.56 x 3.33 =
1.86 million women MAX who could be watching the conference.

Since the church reports 'millions' of women watching, this would mean more than every single adult active Mormon women in the world would have to be watching.

Maybe they count the (shoulders covered, wingless) angels they think they see.

Or is it that men are assigned to watch, to make sure the women get it right?

The General Women's session is for "sisters eight and older".

Better redo the math.

sock puppet wrote:

Lemmie wrote:My interest was caught by one commenter who called for a reference on the 'millions more watching by satellite.'

Just quick and dirty:
>suppose 1/3 activity rate, so 15m X 1/3 =
5 million.
>from BYU vital stats, children < 12 % ranges from 60 to 30 children per 100 adults, with the higher ratio concentrated where there are more members, so let's say there are 50 children per 150 total, or 1/3, therefore 5 million x 2/3 =
3.33 million.
>as per Pew forum researchers, 56% of adult Mormons are female, 0.56 x 3.33 =
1.86 million women MAX who could be watching the conference.

Since the church reports 'millions' of women watching, this would mean more than every single adult active Mormon women in the world would have to be watching.

Maybe they count the (shoulders covered, wingless) angels they think they see.

Or is it that men are assigned to watch, to make sure the women get it right?

The General Women's session is for "sisters eight and older".

Better redo the math.

Is this an instance where the LDS treat 8, 9, 10 and 11 year olds better if they are girls rather than boys that must wait until age 12 to attend the general priesthood session?

sock puppet wrote:Is this an instance where the LDS treat 8, 9, 10 and 11 year olds better if they are girls rather than boys that must wait until age 12 to attend the general priesthood session?

I have a question wrote:No. It's an instance where adult women have their own conference session with content designed for 8 year olds. The sisters are back in Primary.