How does doubleclick have demographic data for HN? I would love to be able to see how doublieclick defines me demographically.
Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
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#22Where is the information about the methodology of the survey? The submitted article says the "survey" is based on DoubleClick Ad Planner, https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=branding... a Google service, but it's not explained how DoubleClick knows about (for example) users who habitually block cookies and the like, and anyway how does DoubleClick match its data sources with the overall population tha…
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#23Just how much of an outlier is a 61 year old male? No pixels on the graph for anyone over 54! Learning new stuff, e.g. writing Android & iOS apps, keeps the mind young, much like lifting weights and aerobics keeps the body young ...
Considering the average 60+ year old male still thinks Facebook is about the entire extent of the internet apart from online banking and Amazon, yes. The only 50+ developers are those that have always been developers.
That's a pretty out-of-touch statement.
The Web has been around 20 years now. There's plenty of 60+ years olds in many far-reaching corners.
Smart startups would be thinking about that.
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#25I did my own little analysis of Hacker News readers based on the ~20,000 of you that visited my blog recently: http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/08/21/what-hacker-news-user... Of course, I didn't survey people or have access to demographic profiles from other sites, so it's just a breakdown of systems. To summarize, the average HN reader runs Chrome 21 on a pre-Retina MacBook.
Yes, but also remember that you're not measuring HN readers, you're measuring HN readers who thought your link was interesting. There are many (popular) links I don't click.
Did you click Dan's?
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#26Wow there's 13% girls on HN?
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#27This poll from a year ago regarding age is probably more representative: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175588 Results pasted here: Age Points --- ------ 0-10 39 (0.6%) 11-15 32 (0.5%) 16-20 462 (7.5%) 21-25 1620 (26.4%) 26-30 1945 (31.6%) 31-35 1049 (17.1%) 36-40 488 (7.9%) 41-45 269 (4.4%) 46-50 117 (1.9%) 51-55 54 (0.9%) 56-60 35 (0.6%) 61-65 19 (0.3%) 66+ 19 (0.3%) edit: Found a male/female poll here from ~…
39 people who are either lying or accidentally clicked on the first option.
There are few on HN that claim they started programming at the age of 3 to 8. I'm guessing it's either them or their offsprings...
On a more serious note, does anyone still trust online survey results?
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#28Where is the information about the methodology of the survey? The submitted article says the "survey" is based on DoubleClick Ad Planner, https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=branding... a Google service, but it's not explained how DoubleClick knows about (for example) users who habitually block cookies and the like, and anyway how does DoubleClick match its data sources with the overall population tha…
I've never heard of it before, but I did find this:
http://support.google.com/adplanner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
I'm sure the process is fraught with errors, of course, but there does seem to be data to feed the model and data to serve as a test set. The easy thing about targeting ads with demographic data like this (unlike trying to make statistically-accurate statements about demographic data like this), is that if a person responds to some types of ads like a 45-year-old scuba instructor or whatever, it doesn't matter if they really are any of those things.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but also remember that you're not measuring HN readers, you're measuring HN readers who thought your link was interesting. There are many (popular) links I don't click.
Did you click Dan's?
No, I don't click web-oriented technology links. I'm generally more of a systems guy, and I find user interfaces rather boring. I suspect most people are like me (in finding SOME aspect of HN boring/irrelevant to their interests).
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