The pie charts show compare the causes of why students in different age groups voted for a particular candidate to become their student representative. Overall, younger students placed the greatest emphasis on being easy to talk to, whereas older students were more likely to value trustworthiness, with being easy to talk exhibiting the largest figure. Of a particular note is that knowing local traditions was the least important quality for both age groups.
Looking at the 18-22 age group, at the top of the ranking stood being able to talk easily, accounting for 32%, followed by being a good speaker (24%) and being trustworthy (20%).While the ability to handle negotiations secured the next spot at 15%, knowing local traditions trailed far behind, each below at just 9%.
Turning to the 23-50 age group, being trustworthy showed the highest percentage at 26%, which was just 4% higher that being easy to talk and handling negotiations making it much higher that being good speaker (20%).But, also in this age group knowing local traditions lagged far behind at 10%.
