Average age of people here.

[Lily Briscoe]

Had an exchange with someone about this in another thread, and now I'm just kind of curious. My impression has been that most people here are in their mid twenties, but I could be wrong.

Edit: shit, there was supposed to be a poll with the following options:

15-17
18-20
21-23
24-26
27-29
30+

...but I forgot to check the box to include it. If a mod wants to add it in, that would be cool, otherwise people can just post a response instead.

[Quail]

I don't know if I'm just tired or something but I couldn't figure out how to add a poll, sorry (though I'm pretty sure it's possible).

I'm 24 though.

[Red Son]

29

[Sasha]

fixed it for you, though we had this poll a lot of times before and the results are skewered because only the youngest members and the older mods/old timer users tend to hang in chitchat and respond to polls like these

[Lily Briscoe]

Thanks guys.

@sasha, that's kinda weird. When I browse this site, I never go to particular subforums; I just hit 'new posts' and see what threads are active. I guess I just assumed everyone did this, idk.

[Tim Cornelis]

yeah me too

[Quail]

@sasha, that's kinda weird. When I browse this site, I never go to particular subforums; I just hit 'new posts' and see what threads are active. I guess I just assumed everyone did this, idk.
That's what I do too. Although on top of that I go to the subforums I moderate to make sure I haven't missed anything.

[RedWorker]

@sasha, that's kinda weird. When I browse this site, I never go to particular subforums; I just hit 'new posts' and see what threads are active. I guess I just assumed everyone did this, idk.

Chit Chat doesn't appear there, though, probably because it's hidden to guests. It's quite annoying; I have to manually check it.

[Tim Cornelis]

It does appear, otherwise I wouldn't be here. I don't use any other way to access threads.

[The Feral Underclass]

Wow, I like that 30 is that age where it all just gets lumped together.

[Lily Briscoe]

Ha, I was waiting for someone to comment about that.

[Sinister Intents]

22

[Blake's Baby]

It will be interesting to see the results. If there's a large bias towards '30+' then perhaps the bands were a little narrow at the lower end. If not... maybe they were OK.

[RedAnarchist]

I'm 28.

[The Idler]

Wow, I like that 30 is that age where it all just gets lumped together.Logan's run innit.

[Collective Reasons]

Wow, I like that 30 is that age where it all just gets lumped together.

Saves some of us adding a lot of +s...

[consuming negativity]

only 1/28 of voters being under 18 surprises me.... a lot.

i am 23 and also am surprised that i'm in the bottom ~1/3 of voters age-wise

although between 21-26 accounts for over half of us if this sample is representative, which means that the ideal type of a revleft user is early-to-mid 20s, which is not unexpected

[Blake's Baby]

On current readings, you could say '53.57% is in the 21-26 age range'.

Or you could say '60.71% is in the 24+ age range'.

How well does the latter square with the 'not unexpected' type of 'early-mid 20s' user? I don't see a typical early-mid 20s user as being compatible with more than 60% of the user-base as being 24+. Those two things in my head don't go together.

[motion denied]

youre all old jeez

did u witness the russian revolution or sumthing

[Blake's Baby]

Nah, most of us were sitting it out, going 'huh! Not a proper revolution'.

[consuming negativity]

On current readings, you could say '53.57% is in the 21-26 age range'.

Or you could say '60.71% is in the 24+ age range'.

How well does the latter square with the 'not unexpected' type of 'early-mid 20s' user? I don't see a typical early-mid 20s user as being compatible with more than 60% of the user-base as being 24+. Those two things in my head don't go together.
lies, damn lies, and statistics

[BIXX]

I don't vote because it serves to legitimize the current social order because I use Tapatalk and it doesn't show me the vote but I'm 17

[Slavic]

Logan's run innit.

Now that is a platform I can stand behind.

I'm 25. Mid 20s crisis in full swing.

[Blake's Baby]

lies, damn lies, and statistics

Now 62.78% at 24+. The 'early-mid 20s' reading is becoming increasingly untenable, and the '30+' category increasingly inadequate, I'd argue.

[motion denied]

Who are the 30+ people?

Besides BB and Dodger I can't think of anyone.

[Tim Cornelis]

Sasha (or is he 28 or something), Phoenix Ash, Q (also nut sure), and Dr. Rosenpenis?
Devrim (I don't think he does chit chat) so add loads of question marks to those

personally, speaking for myself that is, I, speaking on personal title, am 21.

[The Feral Underclass]

Who are the 30+ people?

Besides BB and Dodger I can't think of anyone.


I'm 32 in 8 days


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[Tim Cornelis]

The reason I didn't list TFU is because he lied about his age to me before, now I can never trust him in this regard.

[consuming negativity]

Now 62.78% at 24+. The 'early-mid 20s' reading is becoming increasingly untenable, and the '30+' category increasingly inadequate, I'd argue.

24-26 = 25.00% (9 votes)
27-29 = 5.56% (2 votes)
30+ = 22.22% (8 votes)

together = 52.78%, meaning that about half of the population is 24+ and half of it is under 24

given that 21-23 = 25% and 24-26 = 25%, putting 50% between two categories, and additionally considering that 20 and 27 could be additionally included in the description "early-to-mid 20s", i think it's a very good fit. additionally, if we remove 21-26, there are 8 votes left below it and 10 votes left above it. the mode of the data set is 21-23/24-26 as well atm

[The Feral Underclass]

The reason I didn't list TFU is because he lied about his age to me before, now I can never trust him in this regard.


Dude when has that ever happened? You're either thinking of someone else or you're insane.

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[Tim Cornelis]

Dude, why can't you see that I'm not serious?

[The Feral Underclass]

Dude, why can't you see that I'm not serious?


Because who knows on RevLeft


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[Slavic]

I'm 32 in 8 days


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You already expired 2 years ago.

[Dodo]

Now that is a platform I can stand behind.

I'm 25. Mid 20s crisis in full swing.

soon to be 24 here but mid 20s crisis seems like it will never end...I miss uni so much.

[Collective Reasons]

Who are the 30+ people?

A little more than half a century here.

[Redistribute the Rep]

I'm 18 but I miss being 15/16, now I'm an adult and have to do adult stuff :crying:

[BIXX]

i'm 18 but i miss being 15/16, now i'm an adult and have to do adult stuff :crying:
hahhahahahahaha you old fuck

[The Intransigent Faction]

24 in 24 days!

[Palmares]

Wow, I like that 30 is that age where it all just gets lumped together.

Totes. Just like how all the under 15s are lumped to... oh wait, our bourgeois polling system is exclusive of infantiles.

Also, our yearly chit chat awards are supposed to cover this question. Hopefully with some edgy graphs and bars and lines etc etc

[consuming negativity]

24 in 24 days!

if i calculated this right, your birthday is the day after christmas

i'm incredibly sorry to hear this

[GaggedNoMore]

Who are the 30+ people?

Besides BB and Dodger I can't think of anyone.

I'm 40. And I am living proof of the old adage that one necessarily gets more conservative as they get older isn't always true.

Though I *did* have to go through a reactionary phase of admiration of right libertarianism before arriving at its other end though. ;)

[consuming negativity]

I'm 40. And I am living proof of the old adage that one necessarily gets more conservative as they get older isn't always true.

Though I *did* have to go through a reactionary phase of admiration of right libertarianism before arriving at its other end though. ;)

actually that old adage is just straight up incorrect



Danigelis and collaborators Stephen Cutler of the University of Vermont and Melissa Hardy of Pennsylvania State University analyzed data from the U.S. General Social Surveys of 46,510 Americans between 1972 and 2004. While the surveys did not provide data for the same individuals at different stages, they represented snapshots of the changing attitudes of respondents in different age cohorts over time. The researchers corrected for the fact that the age groups at different survey times are made of up new members with unique baseline opinions.



The surveys assessed attitudes (http://www.livescience.com/3974-happiness-age-depends-attitude.html) on politics, economics, race, gender, religion and sexuality issues. In some cases, such as racial issues and questions of civil liberties for communists, the researchers measured a greater change toward liberalism in older people than in younger people.



"What we believe has happened, at least for the race relations, is that the older group, starting out at a position of significantly more negative feelings, had further to go," Danigelis told LiveScience.



If people really become more liberal as they age, why does common wisdom hold the opposite to be true?



People might find an average 60-year-old to be more conservative than an average 30-year-old, Danigelis said, but beware of extrapolating a trend. The older person, for example, might have started off even more conservative than he or she is now.
Danigelis also blamed the misconception on pervasive negative attitudes toward the elderly in our country, and stereotypes that depict seniors as rigid, ornery and set in their ways.



"If you look at any greeting cards about getting older you’ve got a wonderful lecture about age stereotypes," he said. "My colleague continues to cut out cartoons about getting old and trying to teach old dogs new tricks."


http://www.livescience.com/2360-busting-myth-people-turn-liberal-age.html



actually, you could recreate this "study" yourself or look at how true the trend is for specific attitudes, because they used general social survey data (http://www3.norc.org/GSS+Website/): http://sda.berkeley.edu/sdaweb/analysis/?dataset=gss12


there are plenty of other and better articles on the subject but i'm lazy so

[Sentinel]

I'm 34 now, apparently. :(

[BIXX]

18 tomorrow :(

[Bala Perdida]

18 tomorrow :(
You can go into a smoke shop and buy a Che shirt.
Lol. I don't know why but I feel like I have to mention the sarcasm.

[Lily Briscoe]

To be fair to all the people in the "30+" category... what prompted me to make this thread was a discussion with someone about whether or not 25 was well above the average age of posters here. So, for that purpose, it wasn't really necessary to make specific age brackets past 30, plus the fact that making a poll on here requires you to give the number of brackets you intend to use before you actually get to write them out, and I was too lazy to add up a long list of them in my head, so I just stopped at thirty (which was six of them).

I'm 26, but if it's worth anything, I still consider e.g. 34 to be pretty young.

[Palmares]

18 tomorrow :(

Time to cross the border and get wasted!

But seriously though, I never went to the US when I was under 21, so never experienced that dynamic. But damn, you get questioned on your ID for everything. I pretty much never get questioned for my age in my neck of the woods. Hell, when in the US, I get questioned on the ID I do have, including my fucking passport! One dumb cop preferred to see my Tasmanian driver's license! :lol:

[Lily Briscoe]

Yeah, I still get carded everytime I go into a bar (unless the person serving me is trying to put the moves on), and also whenever I buy beer at the grocery store. It's kind of obnoxious. I have friends well into their thirties who have the same experience too.

[Bala Perdida]

Yeah, I still get carded everytime I go into a bar (unless the person serving me is trying to put the moves on), and also whenever I buy beer at the grocery store. It's kind of obnoxious. I have friends well into their thirties who have the same experience too.
They like to threaten workers with mystery shoppers. I carded for fucking bank cards at my last job, then when mystery shopper season was over I stopped giving a fuuuuuck!