Poll: How old are you?

Post by DanielBMarkham » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 7:14 PM UTC

mixmax wrote: post #18

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #17

I just read this comment ... 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. Hey bub, who you calling not young?

hey - you've got a full beard :-)

Post by jwilliams » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 7:20 PM UTC

mixmax wrote: post #12

Here's a histogram of ages, as they appear right now in the poll. It seems they follow a poisson distribution peaking around 27. ------- --------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ ------------------ -------- ------ ----- - - -

Post by mixmax » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 7:22 PM UTC

jacoblyles wrote: post #22

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great. Using the current histogram, I've got socks that are older than 40% of the posters here. Or maybe, since it is a weekend, all of us senior citizen programmers are all out surfing, caving, working on our tans, and skydiving. It's the young lamers that are here doing polls on HN.

Some of us still have dues to pay. I'm at least 6 months from building and selling my first startup, then retiring.

Post by mixmax » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 7:24 PM UTC

jwilliams wrote: post #23

mixmax wrote: post #12

Here's a histogram of ages, as they appear right now in the poll. It seems they follow a poisson distribution peaking around 27. ------- --------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ ------------------ -------- ------ ----- - - -

Histogram of HN ages.... at midday on a Sunday :-)

Post by chiffonade » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 7:28 PM UTC

kirubakaran wrote: post #6

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 :-)