Poll: How old are you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by batasrki » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 8:06 PM UTC

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Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by pg » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 8:10 PM UTC

mixmax wrote: post #5

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 :-(

I fixed them.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by pg » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 8:11 PM UTC

batasrki wrote: post #41

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Can you scale it so it doesn't break the page width?

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by cosmo7 » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 8:13 PM UTC

Straw polls are interesting, but full of bias. For example, older users are more likely to be in a relationship and/or have children, making participation on a weekend less likely.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by pg » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 8:14 PM UTC

tokenadult wrote: post #31

markessien wrote: post #9

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

The key issue is being good at statistics, not math. The data can't be relied on to make such an inference because they are not from a random sample of the relevant population. VOLUNTARY RESPONSE POLLS One professor of statistics, who is a co-author of a highly regarded AP statistics textbook, has tried to popularize the phrase that "voluntary response data are worthless" to go along with the phrase "correlation does…

Surely it's incorrect to make a blanket statement that voluntary response data is worthless. Worthless means there is zero information in the data, which would only be true in extreme cases.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by batasrki » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 8:15 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #43

batasrki wrote: post #41

(edit) Latest histogram at 50% scale: - ------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- ---- --- - --

Can you scale it so it doesn't break the page width?

I'll try.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by batasrki » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 8:22 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #43

batasrki wrote: post #41

(edit) Latest histogram at 50% scale: - ------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ------------ ----------- ---- --- - --

Can you scale it so it doesn't break the page width?

Hopefully, this version is better.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by paul7986 » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 8:29 PM UTC

jwilliams wrote: post #2

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

33 1st time entrepreneur. I use to feel old as when I started at 31 YC seemed to only fund the 22 to 27 yr old age group.

Though I graduated college late too @ 26, which I thought then too I was way old. Now as I get older I don't care so much, but understand this mind sets comes from society saying college 18 to 24 and 25 to early 30s married w/kids. If you don't follow you feel like an oddball or that people view you that way and unfortunately they do; experience w/extended family.

Overall ... Im enjoying my entrepreneurial ride and hopefully in time will lead me to the supposed societal normal life.

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by colins_pride » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 8:36 PM UTC

chiffonade wrote: post #29

kirubakaran wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :-)

Also, I'm guessing until probably about age 45, people feel better about hitting the next age bracket so they'll mark the older one if there's any overlap.

I don't know man .. I'm coming up on 30 in August, and I'm not sure I feel that great about it .. the whole closer to 40 than 20 thing, without feeling like I've done enough that really matters yet ..

Re: Poll: How old are you?

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Post by adrianwaj » Sun, Mar 15, 2009, 8:42 PM UTC

rickharrison wrote: post #4

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.

Sometimes I forget how accomplished some of the people here can be. I just think of it as 'the blob.'