Hi, I'm looking for people willing to participate in my BA research. It is a survey about how being in fandom influences motivation towards learning English.

What's this now? Age-gatekeeping and keeping the fandom elders and the fandom founders out but allowing 11-year-old children in? What's the basis for choosing this rather odd age range?

I study English teaching and the thesis is about how fandom motivates adolescents and young adults to learn English. I do not intend to exclude anyone from the research but since the age group is set by the thesis topic I had to include some age group in the description of the study.

If the questionnaire says "If you are between 11 and 40" I certainly would not fill it out, nor did I, because it doesn't make any sense because I'm not the target audience. However, it also does not make sense to label 40-year-old adults as "young adults" - the young adult label usually applies to people somewhere between 18 and 27/28, not to someone around 40 who rather would be considered a full ass adult, but off I go, I guess.

To clarify further

Hi, I'm looking for people willing to participate in my BA research. It is a survey about how being in fandom influences motivation towards learning English.

What's this now? Age-gatekeeping and keeping the fandom elders and the fandom founders out but allowing 11-year-old children in? What's the basis for choosing this rather odd age range?

I study English teaching and the thesis is about how fandom motivates adolescents and young adults to learn English. I do not intend to exclude anyone from the research but since the age group is set by the thesis topic I had to include some age group in the description of the study.

“Muszę się przejść, zebrać myśli, może gdzieś tam leżą.”

“Nigdy nie marnuj czasu, próbując wytłumaczyć kim jesteś ludziom, którzy postanowili Cię nie zrozumieć.”