Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
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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
#2This honestly makes me pretty curious. I thought the 25-34 range would be larger, especially compared to other sites that seem to have a much less professional atmosphere(Reddit, etc).
Hacker News certainly isn't some bastion of intelligent thought and discourse, but it's definitely above average in that, which makes me wonder if the 18-24 year olds are just keeping quiet in the comments, if they're really that smart, or if I'm actually a lot less mature/intelligent than I thought.
Re: Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
#3Where is the information about the methodology of the survey?
The submitted article says the "survey" is based on DoubleClick Ad Planner,
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=branding...
a Google service, but it's not explained how DoubleClick knows about (for example) users who habitually block cookies and the like, and anyway how does DoubleClick match its data sources with the overall population that uses Hacker News? What is the evidence that the headline figure is anything other than a wild-ass guess?
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#4I did my own little analysis of Hacker News readers based on the ~20,000 of you that visited my blog recently:
http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/08/21/what-hacker-news-user...
Of course, I didn't survey people or have access to demographic profiles from other sites, so it's just a breakdown of systems. To summarize, the average HN reader runs Chrome 21 on a pre-Retina MacBook.
Re: Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male
#5What I found most disturbing was that most people who visit Hi5 are people in the 25 - 34 age group. That was before I realised it is not a website dedicated to the Australian TV show for small children.
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#6I did my own little analysis of Hacker News readers based on the ~20,000 of you that visited my blog recently: http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/08/21/what-hacker-news-user... Of course, I didn't survey people or have access to demographic profiles from other sites, so it's just a breakdown of systems. To summarize, the average HN reader runs Chrome 21 on a pre-Retina MacBook.
Yes, but also remember that you're not measuring HN readers, you're measuring HN readers who thought your link was interesting. There are many (popular) links I don't click.
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#7This honestly makes me pretty curious. I thought the 25-34 range would be larger, especially compared to other sites that seem to have a much less professional atmosphere(Reddit, etc). Hacker News certainly isn't some bastion of intelligent thought and discourse, but it's definitely above average in that, which makes me wonder if the 18-24 year olds are just keeping quiet in the comments, if they're really that smart…
I am 23.25 and I do generally keep quiet. I would imagine the comments and submissions are generally by the older crowd who have more refined technical knowledge. As far as I can tell, the status quo is to only comment/post if you have expert knowledge on a topic
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#8Just how much of an outlier is a 61 year old male? No pixels on the graph for anyone over 54!
Learning new stuff, e.g. writing Android & iOS apps, keeps the mind young, much like lifting weights and aerobics keeps the body young ...
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#9Just how much of an outlier is a 61 year old male? No pixels on the graph for anyone over 54! Learning new stuff, e.g. writing Android & iOS apps, keeps the mind young, much like lifting weights and aerobics keeps the body young ...
Considering the average 60+ year old male still thinks Facebook is about the entire extent of the internet apart from online banking and Amazon, yes.
The only 50+ developers are those that have always been developers.
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#10This poll from a year ago regarding age is probably more representative: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175588
Results pasted here:
Age Points
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0-10 39 (0.6%)
11-15 32 (0.5%)
16-20 462 (7.5%)
21-25 1620 (26.4%)
26-30 1945 (31.6%)
31-35 1049 (17.1%)
36-40 488 (7.9%)
41-45 269 (4.4%)
46-50 117 (1.9%)
51-55 54 (0.9%)
56-60 35 (0.6%)
61-65 19 (0.3%)
66+ 19 (0.3%)
Gender Points
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Male 1375 (95%)
Female 71 (5%)