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Re:How old are you and what is your education level? by steveplace on Friday October 05, 2007 @09:08AM (#63563)
At the time of this posting, and including me (22 + BSEE) and the OP, here are some stats:

Sample Size: 88

Max: 62

Min: 18

Mean: 27.3

Median: 25.5

StdDev: 8.17

I excluded some outliers based on claims I believed to be false or silly (4 yo w/ laptop and 87 w/ high school)

Pretty interesting stats. Disclaimer ripped from slashdot:

"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."

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Re:How old are you and what is your education level? by cperciva on Friday October 05, 2007 @12:33PM (#63639)
More interesting statistics: Out of a sample size of 107 (as above, after removing obviously silly reports), there are:

41 people whose highest completed degree is a Bachelor's,

17 people whose highest completed degree is a Master's, and

5 people whose highest completed degree is a Doctorate.

At all three levels, there's roughly a 40:20:40 split between degrees in areas other than computing, people who didn't state what field their degree is in, and degrees in computing.

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