Poll: How old are you?

Re:Poll: How old are you? by mixmax on Sunday March 15, 2009 @02:57PM (#517096)

Here's a histogram of ages, as they appear right now in the poll. It seems they follow a poisson distribution peaking around 27.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by jwilliams on Sunday March 15, 2009 @03:20PM (#517126)

Histogram of HN ages.... at midday on a Sunday :-)

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by mixmax on Sunday March 15, 2009 @03:24PM (#517135)

sad isn't it?

:-)

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by kirubakaran on Sunday March 15, 2009 @04:06PM (#517182)

I think he means the histogram might look different at a different time.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by omarish on Sunday March 15, 2009 @06:13PM (#517313)

Why would you call it poisson?

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by bd on Sunday March 15, 2009 @08:59PM (#517527)

Because it looks like one (compared to Gaussian it's skewed):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by omarish on Monday March 16, 2009 @02:12AM (#517841)

It looks a bit like one, but it could be any group of others. Poisson distributions would be used normally in a circumstance that resembles an arrival process (say hits to a web server), but not for a distribution like ages on a site like this.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by nikblack on Monday March 16, 2009 @01:57AM (#517828)

27.. phew .. my guess was 16.

I feel better now.

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