The pie charts illustrate the different reasons why a certain candidate was voted to be representative by two age groups: students aged 18 – 22 and 23 – 50. Overall, by far the largest part of the former group voted since how easy it was to talk to the candidate whereas most respondents from the latter took the applicant’s trustworthiness into consideration while voting. As can be seen, cultural knowledge was the factor that by far the least proportion of students considered in both age groups.
In detail, the greater share (32%) of students aged 18-22 voted for a particular applicant because of the applicant’s affable traits, followed by 24% of students choosing because the applicant was a good communicator and 20% considering the trustworthiness of the candidate. Additionally, students who took negotiation skill and knowledge about cultural traditions into account made up the remaining 24%, which further splits into 15% and 9%, respectively.
With respect to students aged 23-50, the reason why 26% of them voted for a particular candidate was his or her honesty, and openness and negotiation was driver for 44%, accounting for the same 22% each. Meanwhile, being good speaker was considered by the another 20%, which was twice as high as knowing cultural traditions.