Cosmetic Surgery to Stay Younger

I asked the question, 'would you consider cosmetic surgery to stay young as you grow older'?  Just under 70% said no, this really surprised me. As we become more advanced in technology more people are having surgery to alter their appearance. I am surprised more people haven't answered yes to this instead of the 17% which did alongside the 17% that said they don't know.

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Growing Younger Results

I asked the questions 'do you think people are staying younger as the grow old' and 'do you think children are growing up too fast'? From these questions I gave a choice of answers, Yes, No and Unsure. Most people in my survey think that children are growing up too fast and over half believe that people are staying younger as they grow old.

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Growing Younger : Who Took This Survey

These two diagrams are the results of who from my network filled out my third survey. The same principles apply when looking at these two diagrams and the diagrams from 'Age to Have Children : Who Took This Survey'. I had a higher percentage of females, a wide spread age range but with a cluster in the lower region.

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Is Age Really Just a Number?

I designed this question to gain peoples general attitudes towards age being just a number without attaching it to a specific situation. I posed the statement, 'Age is Just a Number', then I gave them options to choose from and below are the results. 56% agree or strongly agree, which is what I thought would reflect general attitudes towards the statement. I was surprised that 34% disagree to some extent.

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Age Gaps : Who Took This Survey

These two diagrams are the results of who from my network filled out my second survey. The same principles apply when looking at these two diagrams and the diagrams from 'Age to Have Children : Who Took This Survey'. I had a higher percentage of females, a wide spread age range but with a cluster in the lower region.

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Oldest Age to Have Children

These are the results from my first survey looking at the other end of the spectrum of age to have a child. As you can see the oldest age that people want to parent varies to the age that they feel is acceptable. The number of ages covers the same range but people feel it is more acceptable to have a child 10 years later than they would personally go. The majority think it is acceptable to have children between 45 and 50, but when asked how old they would personally go they chose 35-40.

When asked if women who have passed the menopause should be eligible for IVF. Below are the results I gained. I was surprised that a quarter of these said it was up to the individual. However, in my qualitative data from opening this question further, many comments said that there should be an exception for women you have gone through the premature menopause, which I didn't state clearly in my question. Apart from this other people said that it is your bodies way of telling you your time is up and that it is selfish and unfair. Some interesting comments were surrounding the fact of funding, many said that IVF should be self funded instead of state funded unless premature menopause took place.

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Youngest Age to Have Children Results

These are the results I gained from my first survey in regards to the youngest age to have a child. I asked parents or expectant parents when they had their first child, an non-parents when they would like to have their first if they do. I have put on the bar charts on the same axis to make it easier to compare the three. It is quite interesting to see the difference between the age that parents became parents to the age that non-parents would like to parent. You can see that people parent over a variety of ages, but most people want to parent (who are not already a parent) between 25-30. From the results in the bottom diagram I can see that the 'acceptable youngest age' to have a child ranges from 16-25.

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Age to Have Children : Who Took This Survey

These two diagrams are the results of who from my network filled out my first survey. These decreased by 1 or 2 as each survey that was issued, but generally the results contain similar numbers, genders and percentages with minute differences. As you can see, the majority of my participants were female. I had a vast range of ages, but a cluster of people around the age of 20. I tried to gain more weak-ties but even though I had, my friends, friends of friends and so on are of a similar age to me (I am 20 and female). Although I have the cluster in the lower age range, at least I managed to gain a vast variety of ages. I would have also like to have got feedback from the older generations, this has probably not happened as my survey was created using SurveyMonkey, an online method; which the older generations maybe don't use as much as the younger generations. Also as you can see from this previous post that only a minute percentage of Facebook and Twitter users are over 65, and these were my main sources I used to get my survey's viewed.

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