Poll: How old are you?

Re:Poll: How old are you? by Silentio on Sunday March 15, 2009 @02:56PM (#517095)

Interestingly enough, it seems that most respondents fall between 20-25 with the next largest group being 25-30.

>I was surprised because I thought the crowd here was mainly young.

Maybe there is something about being +40 that compels one to disclose one's age?

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by tokenadult on Sunday March 15, 2009 @03:34PM (#517145)

most respondents

Good on you to say "most respondents" rather than "most users." This voluntary response poll will tell us nothing reliable about most users of HN, even if more than half of all users respond (which is not particularly likely). See

http://www.edcallahan.com/web110/lectures/litdigest.htm

(you are probably familiar with the example, but this is posted for onlookers) for an example of a poll with a huge sample size that still got the wrong answer.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by ErrantX on Sunday March 15, 2009 @07:01PM (#517370)

Equating that example to this poll is heading to very shaky territory. I can tgink of plenty of factors that would indicate both why that was an incredibly innacurrate poll (and polling method) and why a poll here on HN is probably going to produce at least soem form of workable data :)

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by mixmax on Sunday March 15, 2009 @03:01PM (#517100)

Being almost 40 I would say that the opposite is true ;-)

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by unalone on Sunday March 15, 2009 @05:10PM (#517253)

A lot of us young whippersnappers like to state our age. We feel that youth, for some reason, makes us more likely to know things. We young whippersnappers are kinda dumb that way.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by MaysonL on Monday March 16, 2009 @07:45PM (#519006)

Just wait a few years, and you'll be able to be dumb in a different way, like us old farts, thinking we know something.

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