Just outta curiosity... How did u put those vote up buttons in your post? :D
Look for "poll" in http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
Poll: How old are you?
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Re: Poll: How old are you?
#122Graph, updated every hour: http://koldfront.dk/misc/hn/age.png (until I kill the cronjob :-))
you don't happen to still have the hourly scrapes do you? A line graph showing when age-groups were online/voting might be of interest. (I noticed that 20-24 was first, and has dropped to 2nd now)
No, it was a quick hack late at night, and I didn't think of archiving the data - sorry.
Re: Poll: How old are you?
#123I'm 29 going on 30 this year which means, given the results here, that I am on my way down and out. Either that or I'm at the crest of a wave that will move and break as we all die off. Morbid ...
Re: Poll: How old are you?
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
I couldn't find a figure on the number of registered HN users, so I used the recent number of daily unique IPs from http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html . That number is 22,000. For a confidence level of 95% with a confidence interval of 4%, we'd need 584 votes. I'd imagine there's a lot of science to polling which this calculation probably ignores.
For a confidence level of 95% with a confidence interval of 4%, we'd need 584 votes. I'd imagine there's a lot of science to polling which this calculation probably ignores. Yep, everything about being sure we have an unbiased sample, which is not likely for a question like this. What does your calculation say about the grouping of the data into categories?
I don't think the calculation says anything about the grouping of data. Or does it?
If you have an unbiased sample of 584 votes and 60% of the sample responded "25 - 30", could you say with 95% confidence that 60% (+/-4%) of the sampled population would select "25 - 30"?
Re: Poll: How old are you?
#125My last computer class was in high school--1968. I have owned a personal computer for over 30 years now. Alas, most of my contemporaries have let the leading edge pass them by. I won't allow that to happen to me.
if you had a computer class in high school in 1968, you went to an awesome school!
Re: Poll: How old are you?
#126ok, who's the oldest founder of a startup selected by YC?
Re: Poll: How old are you?
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being almost 40 I would say that the opposite is true ;-)
A lot of us young whippersnappers like to state our age. We feel that youth, for some reason, makes us more likely to know things. We young whippersnappers are kinda dumb that way.
Just wait a few years, and you'll be able to be dumb in a different way, like us old farts, thinking we know something.
Re: Poll: How old are you?
#128Just outta curiosity... How did u put those vote up buttons in your post? :D
Look for "poll" in http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
Thanks alot. I'm happy that there are real hackers who can remember that they even had a first time in learning something. The real hackers share.
The lamers just blame away the "askers". In HNs case the lamers 'reducing points' (at their will). I believe that those lamers think that they are 'born knowing everything' & haven't ever heard the phrase "With great power comes great responsibility".
Re: Poll: How old are you?
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look for "poll" in http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
Thanks alot. I'm happy that there are real hackers who can remember that they even had a first time in learning something. The real hackers share. The lamers just blame away the "askers". In HNs case the lamers 'reducing points' (at their will). I believe that those lamers think that they are 'born knowing everything' & haven't ever heard the phrase "With great power comes great responsibility".
By the way, pg obscured the polling feature deliberatly to keep polls down to a minimum.
Re: Poll: How old are you?
#130Age doesn't matter. This poll should read something like "I started programming on 1) an Abacus 2) IBM mainframes, punchcards, etc... 3) Apple II 4) Commodore 64, 5) IBM PC, etc... Feel free to take the idea and do another poll. I'm too tired/busy.
"TI calculator" option missing.
That's where I started, too