Poll: How old are you?

Re:Poll: How old are you? by mixmax on Sunday March 15, 2009 @02:46PM (#517075)

Ah, sorry, stupid mistake on my part. Pick 25 - 30

It should, of course go like this:

under 15

15 - 24

25 - 29

30 - 34

35 - 39

40 - 44

45 - 49

50 - 54

55 - 59

60 or over

There seems to be no way to edit poll choices :-(

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by pg on Sunday March 15, 2009 @04:10PM (#517188)

I fixed them.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by mixmax on Sunday March 15, 2009 @06:58PM (#517366)

Thanks

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by kirubakaran on Sunday March 15, 2009 @02:46PM (#517076)

First option is "under 15". From this you can infer pretty straight forwardly that the next option "15 - 20" means ">= 15 and < 20". (why would he skip the age 15?) ( But you have to read the last option pretty liberally :-) )

Now that I think about this, I realize that there is always one guy in every class who sits in the first row, lifting his hand to ask a question like this :-)

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by chiffonade on Sunday March 15, 2009 @03:28PM (#517140)

Also, I'm guessing until probably about age 45, people feel better about hitting the next age bracket so they'll mark the older one if there's any overlap.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by colins_pride on Sunday March 15, 2009 @04:36PM (#517221)

I don't know man .. I'm coming up on 30 in August, and I'm not sure I feel that great about it .. the whole closer to 40 than 20 thing, without feeling like I've done enough that really matters yet ..

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by randallsquared on Sunday March 15, 2009 @05:30PM (#517269)

No kidding. I felt like a failure at 20 because I hadn't accomplished anything or gotten rich, yet. Now I'm 35, and I still haven't. :/

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by noonespecial on Sunday March 15, 2009 @08:37PM (#517497)

I'm 34 and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up! The graph definitely shows I'm over the hill and fast sliding down the back side. Bummer.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by HeyLaughingBoy on Sunday March 15, 2009 @06:14PM (#517315)

Nah. I turn 44 soon and I still have to do the math to figure out how old I am cause I just don't think about it much. "Lay ordinate and abscissa on the century. Now cut me a quadrant; third quadrant if you please, I was born in '65"

Wonder how many know what that's from :-p

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by jonsen on Sunday March 15, 2009 @02:47PM (#517078)

25-30

Take the limit as 25.0000....

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by gpmedia on Sunday March 15, 2009 @02:48PM (#517080)

Excellent point. The alternatives given should 15, 16-20, 21-25 etc.

Given this you should pick 20-25 (21-25) if you're 25.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by screwperman on Sunday March 15, 2009 @03:12PM (#517118)

Most programmers have the habit of using asymmetric bounds i.e. lower bound included, upper bound excluded.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by Hexstream on Sunday March 15, 2009 @05:32PM (#517274)

Yes.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...

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