That data is not a representative sample of the age of bucks killed in Pike county in that year. It is simply the number of bucks that were 1.5 and 2.5 years old used in the study to determine the percentage of bucks in each age class with x amount of points. They did not make the interpretation you did because they Know it's wrong, not valid, untrue, and in your case a known lie
Just because your fantasyland version of AR is crumbling around that's no reason to throw a hissy fit. You may not think the survey is a representative of the buck killed in Pike Co. ,but Alt and the PGC did. They calculated the number of 1.5 buck that would be saved by AR dtermining the percentage of the 1.5 buck that would not be AR legal and applied that to the preseason population of 1.5 buck. If the survey did not represent the harvest, then the percentage they used would be wrong ,so oce again you have demonstarted you simply do not know what you are talking about.
These bucks came from voluntary check stations(a dissproportionate amount of hunters who shoot a big buck represented becuase they want to show it to people and they are curious about it's age), meat lockers, taxidermy shops, etc. etc. Taxidermy shops are loaded with bucks 2.5 years old and older.
The PGC did not use voluntary check stations as you claim and they didn't survey taxidermists because they knew that would skew the results. They really aren't as dumb as you seem to think they are.
If you had actually looked at the report you would see that it shows 58% of the 1.5 buck weren't AR legal in the 3 pt. zone. Alt referred to the study quite often while selling Ar ,but I guess you were dreaming about big racks when he explained it. Alt claimed AR would save 50-75% of the 1.5 buck based on the results from this survey.