Age distribution on SPCR?

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How old are you?

Teen (13-17)
8
5%
Young Adult (18-23)
42
24%
Twenties... sorta (24-29)
45
26%
Thirties (30-39)
40
23%
Forties (40-49)
20
12%
Fifties (50-59)
12
7%
Sixties (60-69)
6
3%
Are you sure you're not going to break that heatsink with those shaky fingers?? (70+)
0
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Total votes: 173

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Age distribution on SPCR?

Post by klankymen » Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:47 am

Well, I seem to be one of the youngest regular members here, but I know that Chris Chan is a good bit younger than me. But I Figured I'd make a little poll to see how old everyone is... Don't be ashamed you old geezers!


EDIT: I forgot the numbers! I'm 17.4548 today, who can guess my birthday? :D
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Post by jb_ » Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:59 am

21 :)

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Post by qviri » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:25 am

"University" bracket for me :)

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Post by Pierce » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:12 am

i could guess your birthday or i dont even have to guess :lol: :mrgreen:
EDIT: forgot it
im 18 by the way
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Post by klankymen » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:15 am

Pierce wrote:i could guess your birthday or i dont even have to guess :lol: :mrgreen:
hey, you don't count! :o

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Post by justblair » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:52 am

Nice idea for a poll, very interested in seeing the results.

I'm 32 for what it matters

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Post by diver » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:30 am

Ancient.

I used to have a telephone wihout a dial or buttons. When you picked it up the operator said "number please".

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Post by nici » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:09 am

Twenty and a quarter of a year, roughly.

And i feel old. That sucks monkeyballs.

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Re: Age distribution on SPCR?

Post by Aris » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:36 am

klankymen wrote:Well, I seem to be one of the youngest regular members here, but I know that Chris Chan is a good bit younger than me. But I Figured I'd make a little poll to see how old everyone is... Don't be ashamed you old geezers!


EDIT: I forgot the numbers! I'm 17.4548 today, who can guess my birthday? :D
im 25

your birthday is October 21st, 1988

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Post by Dutch2 » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:59 am

42 and a bit.

I feel young. Life is good!

No monkeyballs involved :)

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Post by HueyCobra » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:08 pm

qviri wrote:"University" bracket for me :)
I'm also a uni student, but somehow I don't think we're in the same bracket :wink:

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Post by qviri » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:33 pm

HueyCobra wrote:
qviri wrote:"University" bracket for me :)
I'm also a uni student, but somehow I don't think we're in the same bracket :wink:
Well, I'm not going to go around claiming I am a Young Adult, or an Adult of any kind, so...

I can make that "young university" or "undergrad" or "baby Us" if it makes you feel better :wink:

Interesting results BTW. I would have excepted the average to be a bit lower than it is right now. Perhaps most people are still in their "faster is better" stage when in their twenties.

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Post by klankymen » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:41 pm

well technically at 18 you are an adult, at least here in germany, and AFAIK also in america, even if you aren't allowed to do anything, and I think the term by marketing for that age group is young adult (actually 18-25), so whatever. just go by age, the names were pretty random as you can see...

and Aris, good "guess" :P Actually it's Octember thirty-sixth, 2008

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Post by teejay » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:54 pm

30... for the next few days, anyway.

Btw, klankymen, how nice of you to put in a special last option for Ralf :)

(happy silencing to everyone just in case I get kicked from the forums for that one :wink:)

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Post by Reachable » Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:55 pm

I ain't tellin' (but I did vote earlier.)

Bump -- to keep this on the charts.

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Post by rpsgc » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:04 pm

21, almost 22.
I too feel old :(

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Post by hmsrolst » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:14 pm

I'm glad to see there's at least one other voter in the 60-69 bracket.

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Post by JVM » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:12 pm

This poll is very depressing :oops:

Am I the only 98 year old here? :lol:

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Post by andyb » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:16 pm

I just leveled the POLL at 18 a peice for the "20's sorta" and the "29-39 bracket".

Some may ask which I voted for (and I didnt lie), most wont get a reply ;)


Andy

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Post by quikkie » Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:12 am

I'm 28 and yes I went through a faster is better stage in my early twenties :)

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Post by Bluefront » Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:48 am

I've always suspected I was the oldest poster on these forums......but after reading this thread, I'm not so certain. When you get a little older, you find it easier to estimate someone's age, even without seeing the person. It has to do with language usage, and content. Of course it is more difficult when English is not the primary language of the poster.

In any event, I'm not going to tell.....guess if you want. :lol:

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Post by jaganath » Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:56 am

21, almost 22.
I too feel old
I think it's funny the youngsters in this thread who have said they feel old at the age of 20 or thereabouts. Some of us oldies would give our right arms to have the luxury of feeling old at 20! :lol: You've probably got a good 60 years more on this planet barring nuclear war or a meteor strike, get out there and enjoy it! :lol:

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Post by nici » Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:26 am

jaganath wrote: I think it's funny the youngsters in this thread who have said they feel old at the age of 20 or thereabouts. Some of us oldies would give our right arms to have the luxury of feeling old at 20! :lol:


I need a fast car, a car that makes me laugh everytime i floor it :lol:
jaganath wrote: You've probably got a good 60 years more on this planet barring nuclear war or a meteor strike, get out there and enjoy it! :lol:
Eagerly looking forward to that :wink:

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Post by Stjopatron » Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:28 am

JVM wrote: Am I the only 98 year old here? :lol:
Yes, probably. All the other 98 years old left SPCR after figuring out that their computers became instantly quiet when they switched off their hearing aids.
The person writing this has been young for 31 years now.

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Post by JVM » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:28 am

Stjopatron wrote:
JVM wrote: Am I the only 98 year old here? :lol:
Yes, probably. All the other 98 years old left SPCR after figuring out that their computers became instantly quiet when they switched off their hearing aids.
The person writing this has been young for 31 years now.
I've never used a hearing aid, and I don't hear my computer at all, absolutely silent. In fact, I don't even hear the television :wink:

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Post by Gordoco » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:52 am

diver wrote:I used to have a telephone wihout a dial or buttons. When you picked it up the operator said "number please".
That sounds like a mighty fine voice activated dialing solution. Did you have to speak the digits slowly? Could you speak a name and have the system automatically dial the number? :lol:

(old enough to have seen one of them, but we were on rotary dial party lines until I was about 12 when we got our own private line - still rotary)

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Post by dddibley » Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:35 pm

00110101 :)

ddd

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Age distribution

Post by BigA » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:03 pm

The age distribution is beginning to look like a "normal" distribution.

If you rotate the chart 90 degrees it also looks something like a hill. Does being on the right side of the hill make me "over the hill"?

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Post by nici » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:34 am

dddibley wrote:00110101 :)

ddd
That would be LIII then :)

There´s only 10 kind of people in the word, those who understand binary and those who don´t :lol:

Everyone already knows how old i am since i posted earlier, but it would be 10100 :wink:

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Re: Age distribution

Post by Ralf Hutter » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:43 am

BigA wrote:The age distribution is beginning to look like a "normal" distribution.
Nah. It's way skewed towards the young end of the spectrum because his first three groups are in 5-year increments, and all the rest are in 10 year increments.

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