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How old are you and what is your education level?

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Re: How old are you and what is your education level?

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i must have failed english four or five times before i dropped out. doesn't help that i could have taught the teachers 24 i think (lost count) + almost electronics engineering BS + 100k debt. just dandy ^_^ i'm looking to return for physics/math soon, but i'm wondering if my time would be better served atm in another endeavor

"doesn't help that i could have taught the teachers" You're right about that. Doesn't help a bit.

i don't worry about it :)

[edit]i like the "say in one tense, mean in all" declarative style (where the present is the "all tense,") if that makes any sense. it's sort of like functional programming

Re: How old are you and what is your education level?

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At the time of this posting, and including me (22 + BSEE) and the OP, here are some stats: Sample Size: 88 Max: 62 Min: 18 Mean: 27.3 Median: 25.5 StdDev: 8.17 I excluded some outliers based on claims I believed to be false or silly (4 yo w/ laptop and 87 w/ high school) Pretty interesting stats. Disclaimer ripped from slashdot: "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, fi…

More interesting statistics: Out of a sample size of 107 (as above, after removing obviously silly reports), there are:

41 people whose highest completed degree is a Bachelor's,

17 people whose highest completed degree is a Master's, and

5 people whose highest completed degree is a Doctorate.

At all three levels, there's roughly a 40:20:40 split between degrees in areas other than computing, people who didn't state what field their degree is in, and degrees in computing.

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