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tptacek · 2014-07-26 15:19:19+00:00

Search the archives and you'll find Paul Graham talking about the age distributions, and contradicting you.

persistent | karma 157 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2019-10-24 19:40:26+00:00

But that's not what the graphs show. There is a diagonal that clearly tracks a birth year cohort, not an age.

williamstein | karma 6832 | avg karma 5.85 · | 2015-01-14 21:17:30+00:00

I wonder what the age distribution is? (Not just gender and race...)

eterm | karma 6040 | avg karma 4.18 · | 2015-06-05 12:02:11+00:00

That's true, but you can ignore distributions, and assert that they must accept more people under 29 than over 40.

tensor | karma 5723 | avg karma 3.71 · | 2013-10-06 20:15:00

This is abhorrent ageism, and completely wrong.

Peter Thiel, 31, Paypal, 37, Palintar. Larry Elison, 33, Oracle. Reid Hoffman, 35, Linked In. Evan Williams, 35, Twitter. Mark Pincus, 41, Zynga. Arianna Huffington, 54, Huffington Post.

Can we stop making things up? Maybe five minutes of research would be good? You know, there is a place they teach these things.

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King-Aaron | karma 4452 | avg karma 2.41 · | 2018-11-23 09:23:25+00:00

https://www.statista.com/statistics/376128/facebook-global-u...

> They are all old.

It doesn't appear to strictly be the case.

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c00p3r | karma 138 | avg karma 0.18 · | 2010-08-18 11:05:55

Age is a wrong explanation.

vikas0380 | karma 569 | avg karma 4.55 · | 2013-12-18 17:57:49+00:00

i don't understand what logic or studies they referring while selecting the ages.

justin66 | karma 13227 | avg karma 2.6 · | 2022-12-17 20:52:59

> average age of a representative is 75

Come on. It's 58. I didn't even have to type to check this, just "Search Google for..."

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netizen-936824 | karma 1157 | avg karma 0.83 · | 2022-01-02 10:45:05

My point was the comparison between age groups is flawed. Nothing to do with cause.

nl | karma 29762 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2015-06-05 10:57:14+00:00

Yeah, but a normal distribution centered on 29, with a lower bound of ~18 doesn't actually imply all that many 40+ year olds.

(on mobile, someone else can reply with the math for an upvote)

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mixmax | karma 18160 | avg karma 6.08 · | 2009-03-15 13:57:06

Here's a histogram of ages, as they appear right now in the poll. It seems they follow a poisson distribution peaking around 27.

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bmm6o | karma 1739 | avg karma 1.84 · | 2016-10-19 17:03:12

> The alternative interpretation

And that's even accepting the interpretation of this as old vs. young, which I would need more than 1 data point for.

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pmiller2 | karma 10258 | avg karma 2.12 · | 2020-03-05 11:40:45

Considering how the median age of the country at large is 38.2, you just proved the opposite of your intended point. [0]

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[0]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/06/median-age-do...

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newfeatureok | karma 459 | avg karma 3.53 · | 2020-12-30 04:44:31+00:00

I don’t see your point at all - even if you were to control for any age of your choosing I’m sure you’d still see similar distributions.

Your last point also requires some evidence since it is extreme.

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kelnos | karma 35726 | avg karma 3.07 · | 2023-01-24 02:49:43

The GP poster was referring to the age of service workers in the UK, not the US. No idea if they're accurate for the UK, but I don't think US data can be used to refute what they're saying.

contravariant | karma 8428 | avg karma 2.4 · | 2016-10-12 20:48:24+00:00

I don't get why the bracketed the age group at all. Surely you can just estimate the distribution?

hokkos | karma 2330 | avg karma 3.45 · | 2016-05-27 09:14:20

I like how the graph is carefully crafted to make it like there is good age distribution when it does NOT. There is twice a subdivision in ages 20-40 than in ages 40+.

joezydeco | karma 21798 | avg karma 3.0 · | 2023-10-09 09:04:41

Your "age" calculation is broken.

eatbitseveryday | karma 1771 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2017-10-04 04:52:43+00:00

> median age

Not to be picky, but the US stats are mean, which is different from the median.

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