Audience Analysis and Audience Adaptation

As for chapter 5, adapting and analyzing an audience requires similar tasks. In order to be confident in your speech, the book suggested that the speaker should gather information about their audience. I think that gathering demographic data and psychographic data are equally as important when a speaker is wanting to successfully adapt to their audience. Knowing the audiences age limits an ethnicity are the two important information in my opinion. With knowing the age limit, the speaker has knowledge of what kinds of subject he/she should mention in the speech. Also, the speaker would be aware of how easy or difficult they should make the speech in order for the message to come across. As for demographic data I believe that knowing the vast majority views and beliefs are important when giving a speech. This can also tie in with the location that the speaker is giving their speech at. For an example, a public speaker cannot just go to a church and present a speech about questioning the believers of God. Therefore depending on the location and depending on the demographic data, the speaker should definitely want to gather that information prior to presenting his/her speech.
As for my speech, it's hard because we've all never seen each other before. I don't exactly have your guys' opinions on certain subjects nor do I hear people talking about different subjects before class starting. Maybe at the first meeting we have, when people start to give their presentations I can try to pay attention to certain things that they talk about in their speech. Since they are talking about subjects that mainly interests them, by listening to the speech, I can get a feel of what each person may like and what not. Then from there, I can try to incorporate some of it in my speech if there are any relations at all to my topics.
The chapter also mentions about how the time of the day can also affect the audience. Since we're meeting at noon, I'm going to try to volunteer myself as one of the first few people to go, because I know that the audience can get super dull and doze off after the first couple of presenters! :[