Poll: What is your age? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What is your age?

#51

Post by wilfra » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 6:30 AM UTC

Too many options. All I can really discern from a quick glance is that ~71 people trolled the poll (under 10+over 90) and most HN'ers appear to be 21-30.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

#52

Post by pseut » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 6:30 AM UTC

JakeL wrote: post #21

17!

355687428096000?

Re: Poll: What is your age?

#53

Post by sbashyal » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 6:35 AM UTC

jjcm wrote: post #40

sbashyal wrote: post #13

I created HN Charts to visualize HN Poll data. Click the following link to see the result of this poll in an easy to read chart: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=5536734

Can you provide a link back to the original poll somewhere on the page?

That can certainly be done!

Re: Poll: What is your age?

#54

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 6:38 AM UTC

wilfra wrote: post #51

Too many options. All I can really discern from a quick glance is that ~71 people trolled the poll (under 10+over 90) and most HN'ers appear to be 21-30.

Why do you assume they lied?

Re: Poll: What is your age?

#55

Post by pavanky » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 6:38 AM UTC

MichaelApproved wrote: post #31

yagibear wrote: post #19

Old enough to know that this has been asked before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126923

759 days ago, 1448 days ago and 1867 days ago, respectively. I think it's OK to ask this question after 2 years. It's great to see how communities change over the years. Yes, I know it's not scientific at all and does a poor job of reflecting real demographics. But, if you think there's value in asking, then there's value in comparing previous answers.

It is also interesting to see what the median age is. I think it is between 25-30 now where as it was between 30-35 before. The ratio of teenagers also seems to be decreasing.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

#56

Post by thomasfl » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 6:40 AM UTC

BTW: this poll is displayed beautifully with bar chart on HN for mobile http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/#/item/5536734

Re: Poll: What is your age?

#57

Post by lucb1e » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 6:43 AM UTC

pseut wrote: post #52

JakeL wrote: post #21

17!

355687428096000?

Int overflow. I can't read that age.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

#58

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 6:45 AM UTC

jkestner wrote: post #37

slu wrote: post #33

I think the "Please don't abuse this option..." has had the opposite effect than the OP wanted...

It's a honeypot.

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Re: Poll: What is your age?

#59

Post by chmike » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 6:45 AM UTC

It looks like 44 people over 90 isn't very realisic. I guess some people find it funy to screw the poll. It's a waste of creative potential. What else have you done lately to make this world a better place to live ?

Re: Poll: What is your age?

#60

Post by wilfra » Fri, Apr 12, 2013, 6:50 AM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #54

wilfra wrote: post #51

Too many options. All I can really discern from a quick glance is that ~71 people trolled the poll (under 10+over 90) and most HN'ers appear to be 21-30.

Why do you assume they lied?

Look at the old polls. Low single digit %'s of people were under 15 or over 60 and now nearly 10% of people are under 10 or over 90? Riiiight.

I realize it's possible demographics changed in that time. Maybe HN is all the rage in nursing homes and kindergartens these days. Doesn't pass the sniff test though.

One demographic does appear to be distinctly on the rise though: trolls.