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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

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.