SooToday.com polled 4981 SooToday.com readers and asked the question: How old should a child be before they are allowed to have their own smartphone?
The poll ran from 8/14/2022 to 8/19/2022. Of the 4981 votes, we can determine that 2839 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Younger than 5 1.34 % local, 1.39 % total
5 0.39 % local, 0.38 % total
6 0.21 % local, 0.20 % total
7 0.46 % local, 0.56 % total
9 0.88 % local, 0.88 % total
10 7.08 % local, 6.87 % total
11 1.48 % local, 1.75 % total
12 18.81 % local, 18.77 % total
13 15.60 % local, 15.60 % total
14 13.21 % local, 13.81 % total
15 7.19 % local, 7.37 % total
16 16.98 % local, 16.48 % total
17 1.69 % local, 1.63 % total
Older than 17 14.69 % local, 14.31 % total
Local Total
Results are based on an online study of adult SooToday.com readers that are located in Sault Ste. Marie. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 1.34%, 19 times out of 20.
SooToday.com uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.