Whites are nearly twice as likely to be fans of hockey as are blacks. Professional Tennis Twenty-eight percent of Americans are fans of professional tennis. Men and women are about equally likely to be fans of tennis, making tennis the sport with the greatest appeal to women outside of figure skating. Tennis also shows very small differences by age. Tennis fans are likely to come from higher socioeconomic backgrounds, as those with more education and higher incomes are much more likely to be fans of the sport than are those with less education and lower incomes.
Similar patterns are also evident by income.
Men are slightly more likely to be fans of professional wrestling than are women. For results based on this sample, one can say with 95 percent confidence that the maximum error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus 3 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls. The analyses here are based on logistic regression, and predict the likelihood of being a fan of each sport based on the demographic characteristics, while taking into account and controlling the effect each characteristic has on being a fan.