DU Demographic survey #2: Age.

[StraightDope]

OK, DU, here's round two of my informal demographic survey. For this one, the question is, to which of the following age categories do you belong?

Also, if you happen to have an age ending in a '5', feel free to put yourself in either applicable category.

EDIT: By popular demand, here is a link to DU Demographic survey #1:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[NMDemDist2]

1. where's survey #1? n/t

[Ice4Clark]

2. Here is the link for number 1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2806414

[Wonk]

link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2806414&mesg_id=2806414

I agree, it should have been in the OP.

[NMDemDist2]

4. thanks, I had missed that one n/t

[mainegreen]

3. I agree w/previous poster. Place links to previous surveys!

[jzola]

5. None of them!

[mainegreen]

7. There is an age gap there!

[StraightDope]

19. Self-delete

[Wonk]

20. While your poll is still lacking a 65-75 category, it's quite possible

You might want to fix that :think:

[CTyankee]

6. What if you are between 65 and 75? I am 67 and voted with the

65 group. But don't you think you need an interim between the two?

You will reconsider this decision when you are a bit older, I'll bet!

[DireStrike]

8. You guys are old!

err, I mean wise and experienced... :hi:

Who showed you how to use a computer, anyways?

:evilgrin:

[annabanana]

10. My (now 86 year old) Dad.

He was mucking about with arpanet.. dazzled by the possiblities, when I was fritterin' away my younger years.

[Donnachaidh]

13. listen sonny -- I've probably been on the net

for so long I can't remember what I did before that! :evilgrin:

[TahitiNut]

30. I've been using the Internet since the late 70's.

I used it even when it was still called ARPAnet. I used AutoDin, too. Dave Boggs and Bob Metcalfe were my coworkers. I learned telecomm (virtually) at Kleinrock's knee. :silly:

[tbyg52]

24. Hey!

I are a komputer skiense teechur, ya lousy kid!

[TahitiNut]

29. I was programming computers and developing software before you were even an IM, son.

Why is it that wet-behind-the-ears folk think they've discovered whatever they learn?

I think of it as the "Columbus Syndrome" ... never mind that there were many hundreds of thousands of people in the Americas for centuries before he could even paddle a boat, he "discovered" America?

(sigh)

[Mr_Spock]

9. This survey was done LAST WEEK!! The average was ~48

See if this one is the same - lol

Edit - you have overlapping ranges (I fit onto 2) & you missed a few years there!

[rep the dems]

12. That puts me about 32 years below average.

Interesting.

[Mr_Spock]

14. I was 16 once

We didn't have internet then.

[rep the dems]

18. My, oh my.

I don't know what I'd do without DU, Fantasy Football, and various other internet activities.

[Canuckistanian]

31. We had girls

They were JUST as time-and-money-consuming, frustrating and ultimately rewarding as the latest Dell model.

And they smelled better.

[Allenberg]

11. 25

[nam78_two]

15. Almost exactly 27.5

:)

[monmouth]

16. I'm with CTyankee

at 66, but then again 66 is the new 46 right?? Please????

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

21. I think so

my hero and one incredible guy is Sam Waterston, who just turned 66, and he's YOUNG!

[tnlefty]

23. Welcome to DU, monmouth! If 66 is the new 46 then I can be 26

again, right! I'm all for that...but then again maybe not. Again, welcome!

[Tony Soprano]

17. another geezer here...

damn....

[smalll]

22. Am looking forward to the "Wealth" survey -

I'm always amused by those featherheads who show up to tell us that there's "no way to survive" on less than $100,000 a year - where they live, don't you know. And then by the way the thread becomes instantly popcorn-worthy.

[WhollyHeretic]

25. 29 a couple months from 30

[troubleinwinter]

26. What is the point of this? It matters?

[smalll]

27. Uh Oh. We're "skewing old." - Youngsters, please DU this poll! /nt

[misternormal]

28. I see that I fit into the largest group... n/t

[troubleinwinter]

35. Not really.

All that can be seen here is that a little over one in one thousand of DUers are in that age group.

You are in the largest group in the poll, but that doesn't tell us anything.

Any more than a freeped CNN poll.

[Laurab]

32. Just a kick!

I'm in the (presently) largest group, I'd like to see more people take part.

[Zodiak]

33. Looks to me like a standard bell curve

If more people voted, the proportions would probably be much the same.

Nice to know I am considered young somewhere where I haunt. I'm 35, btw.

[troubleinwinter]

34. Religion/Age polls

Some ass took a series of these types of polls on DU a long time ago, then ran over to freeperland proclaiming that "the typical DUer is an overweight, middle-aged, atheist(...blah,blah,blah)".

Already, someone in poll #1 thread exclaimed, "45% of DUers are Atheist/Agnostic?" But NO. All we know is that .002917% of registered users claim it. Around three per thousand. We have no clue how many DUers are atheist or agnostic or Hindu from this.

What on earth is the point? Why does it matter? If religion or theological discussion is of interest, there is a forum for it. A compelling question relating to religious beliefs posted in GD might generate interesting discussion too. How does an inaccurate poll tell anything valuable at all?

We will have no clue as to age groupings on DU when the poll is complete. None. And who cares?

I am just mystified what value these polls can have.

[OneBlueSky]

36. you mean physical, intellectual, emotional, or spiritual? . . .

they're all different . . . :shrug:

[chknltl]

37. Chief Seattle....

I did not know he said those words. What a wise man.
btw: I happen to agree with you about spiritual age. In my view, the age of one's soul influences a great deal how one perceives the world, much in the same fashion that ones actual age does.

[OneBlueSky]

38. here's a fuller version of the quote, if you're interested . . .

"The earth does not belong to people; people belong to the earth . . . This earth is precious to the Creator and to harm the earth is to heap contempt upon its Creator . . . Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red people. We are part of the earth and it is part of us."

Chief Seattle's Unanswered Challenge by John M. Rich (Seattle, 1947)

[garthranzz]

39. 55 - you could solve the problem by not duplicating numbers, you know

i.e., 18-24, 25-34, etc.