2008 Registration Totals

I can also see theres a small but not insignificant increase of a number of international furrys. I wonder why the Germans find us so interesting...

Disappointed though Texas is still the same spot. WE WERE ALMOST TO 100 FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

Only 3 from Idaho? Well, I'll be adding to that number next year. And I'll be in a suit too!

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We may have an.. incorrect birthdate somehow. It's been known to happen.

To set this question to rest once and for all:

I contacted the person who had entered the birthdate of "1908." It was a typo; the person had meant to enter 1988.

Well, while everyone's talking about age, that list got me thinking a bit (warning!) about where the attendees were coming. I went and compared, and decided that knowing how many came from where is more useful if instead you knew how many OF who was there came. In other words, the percentage of that state/country's population. Though given the numbers here, I decided upon "fans per million." I went through, and there were perhaps a couple of surprises, though most of the results were clear and predictable: generally, the closer the state was, the higher a percentage of people came. However, I think that some exceptions to the general rule might imply the general ratio of the population that happen to be fans, at least on a relative scale.

I took a look at the five countries where 10 or more people were from, and this is what it looked like, just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about:

• USA: 3,069 Attendees, Population 304,840,000, 10.07 Attendees per million people.
• Canada: 213 Attendees, Population 33,344,000, 6.39 Attendees per million people.
• United Kingdom: 51 Attendees, Population 60,587,300, 0.84 Attendees per million people.
• Germany: 13 Attendees, Population 82,217,800, 0.16 Attendees per million people.
• Australia: 10 Attendees, Population 21,370,000, 0.47 Attendees per million people.

This is relatively predictable; the United States represented the vast majority of those in attendance; pretty clear for an event that took place hundreds and hundreds of miles from any other country. The Canada, UK, and Australia represent the other major English-speaking countries of the world, so their presence makes sense. Though low, Germany had a surprising number; English is spoken by some, yes, which explains the lower rate compared to neighboring UK. However, I might speculate that perhaps Germany might have a higher percentage of the population as fans, at least among those that speak English. Similarly, I might suggest the same could be said for Canada; Considering that a number of the main population centers are considerably distant from Pittsburgh, particularly when you consider the west coast, yet Canada had some 59.7% or so of the attendance rate of the USA. A shame, I suppose, that the figures don't also break down to include province, so I could compare the rate for, say, British Columbia with those of Washington.

I'd like to get some more of this uploaded, (i.e, the state-by-state data) but working on re-formatting this data is proving to be a bit of a pain... Especially when I still want it legible. I apologize for any difficulty reading the previous list; I'll try to figure something out for the US list, which is vastly larger; (and I also included data to try to figure out how much distance figures into the equation) so it's certainly going to need it!