Poll: How old are you?

#1

Post by mixmax » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 6:24 PM UTC

I just read this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516949 and noticed that a few wellknown usernames talked about their age, and were in their 40's and 50's. I was surprised because I thought the crowd here was mainly young.

So I thought I'd make a poll to see how old you guys all are.

Don't pick more than one ;-)

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#2

Post by jwilliams » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 6:33 PM UTC

32 here. There have been a few other discussions around this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63294

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#3

Post by pmjordan » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 6:33 PM UTC

If I'm 25, do I select 20-25 or 25-30?

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#4

Post by rickharrison » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 6:35 PM UTC

20 here and I like the community here because people of all different ages can talk without any form of disrespect or judgement based on age, experience, or any other factor.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#5

Post by mixmax » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 6:46 PM UTC

pmjordan wrote: post #3

If I'm 25, do I select 20-25 or 25-30?

Ah, sorry, stupid mistake on my part. Pick 25 - 30

It should, of course go like this:

under 15

15 - 24

25 - 29

30 - 34

35 - 39

40 - 44

45 - 49

50 - 54

55 - 59

60 or over

There seems to be no way to edit poll choices :-(

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#6

Post by kirubakaran » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 6:46 PM UTC

pmjordan wrote: post #3

If I'm 25, do I select 20-25 or 25-30?

First option is "under 15". From this you can infer pretty straight forwardly that the next option "15 - 20" means ">= 15 and Now that I think about this, I realize that there is always one guy in every class who sits in the first row, lifting his hand to ask a question like this :-)

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#7

Post by jonsen » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 6:47 PM UTC

pmjordan wrote: post #3

If I'm 25, do I select 20-25 or 25-30?

25-30

Take the limit as 25.0000....

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#8

Post by gpmedia » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 6:48 PM UTC

pmjordan wrote: post #3

If I'm 25, do I select 20-25 or 25-30?

Excellent point. The alternatives given should 15, 16-20, 21-25 etc.

Given this you should pick 20-25 (21-25) if you're 25.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#9

Post by markessien » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 6:50 PM UTC

Someone better than me at math should say how many votes we need to have a 95% accuracy.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

#10

Post by bbg » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 6:53 PM UTC

I'm 34.

There's a similar poll from Dec. 2008 at Stack Overflow: "How old are you, and how old were you when you first started coding?": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/327973/how-old-are-you-an...

Looks like that crowd is fairly young (twenties and thirties).