Wow there's 13% girls on HN?
lol, fail math.
Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
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Re: Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
#52Orkut statistics are quite interesting - most of the people are 24-34, then 35-44 group is relatively small and 45-54 is much bigger. I wonder how accurate this data is.
Given that it uses US data and Orkut is not used much in the US, probably not accurate at all. You need the Brazilian stats...
Re: Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
#53I wonder how different the stats are for casual users (browsing headlines once or twice a month), people who read all the interesting links on the frontpage, those who read comments, those who sometimes comment, and those who routinely comment.
I can only thing of a few female commenters. zero on http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders right?
Re: Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
#54How does doubleclick have demographic data for HN? I would love to be able to see how doublieclick defines me demographically.
They have tracking cookies installed on most user's machines.
This is because they have such a high penetration rate of advertising inventory which they use to profile you by age /sex / interests.
Then it's just a case of marking you as an HN user, they do this by detecting the referrer when you arrive at one of their sites.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What I mean is that there aren't many 60+ year old people that think "Hey, you know what, I'm going to develop an Android application." It just doesn't come up. The adoption rate of technology is always slower in older age groups. The way technology is used between 20-40 and 40-60 is enormous. Between 40-60 and 60-80 is even more dramatic.
> What I mean is that there aren't many 60+ year old people that think "Hey, you know what, I'm going to develop an Android application." It just doesn't come up.
Only because you're so sure of yourself, I have to correct you.
1. I'm 67. Here's my Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus
2. Here is a list of my recent Android apps: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=paul+lutus&c=apps
3. I was probably programming before you were born: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer
Have a nice day.
Re: Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I mean is that there aren't many 60+ year old people that think "Hey, you know what, I'm going to develop an Android application." It just doesn't come up. The adoption rate of technology is always slower in older age groups. The way technology is used between 20-40 and 40-60 is enormous. Between 40-60 and 60-80 is even more dramatic.
> What I mean is that there aren't many 60+ year old people that think "Hey, you know what, I'm going to develop an Android application." It just doesn't come up. Only because you're so sure of yourself, I have to correct you. 1. I'm 67. Here's my Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus 2. Here is a list of my recent Android apps: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=paul+lutus&c=apps 3. I was proba…
Aren't you proving the parents point? He was saying the only 60+ developers have always been developers...
Also, having a wikipedia page that you wrote yourself, doesn't really say anything...
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
In my opinion starting programming at a young age is almost orthogonal to being interested in HN links and discussions from a young age, mostly because kids have other interests than adults, even if they like programming.
I'm not saying that there aren't any children reading HN btw.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What I mean is that there aren't many 60+ year old people that think "Hey, you know what, I'm going to develop an Android application." It just doesn't come up. The adoption rate of technology is always slower in older age groups. The way technology is used between 20-40 and 40-60 is enormous. Between 40-60 and 60-80 is even more dramatic.
I'm 60 and I agree that adoption by older folks is that way but please don't imply that we can't or won't. I was a hardware engineer till nine years ago when someone asked me about developing a web site for them. Now I have my own very successful web dev company. Plus, I would bet I am more tuned in to tech, and own more advanced hardware, than the majority in this thread.
Re: Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
#59When it said 23% girls I knew that they based their information on crappy data that isn't representative.
Why?
Re: Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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