How old are you?

[Rushgeekgirl]

I was a cute, perky and under thirty when I found this place.

[Idle Thoughts]

According to people who have replied with their ages (so far), these are the dopers from oldest to youngest:


LouisB
Chefguy
TreacherousCretin
jabiru
Shodan
runner pat
SeldomSeen
Khadaji
Little Nemo
nonacetone
Leaffan
missred
Ellen Cherry
Oakminster
Sampiro
zoid
Suburban Plankton
Valgard
Superfluous Parentheses
wheresgeorge04
Living Well Is Best Revenge
Ura-Maru
Anaamika
FrancisCastle
Idle Thoughts
Antigen
Hades
rhubarbarin
chizzuk
Inner Stickler

[GameHat]

Originally Posted by Idle Thoughts

I'm 30 so far.

Ditto. I still get carded, and one friend still says I have a baby-face, while a client of mine was astonished that I wasn't in my mid-30s (hopefully because of my demeanor and professionalism, and not my appearance.)

Nothing wrong with being mid-30s, I just want to look my age ;D

[Foggy]

49.81

[interface2x]

I'm 33 until August.

[Sunspace]

I should mention that I'm 47.

[NinetyWt]

Originally Posted by Idle Thoughts

According to people who have replied with their ages (so far), these are the dopers from oldest to youngest:

I have a spreadsheet with many Dopers in it, listed by year of birth.

[cochrane]

Originally Posted by Idle Thoughts

According to people who have replied with their ages (so far), these are the dopers from oldest to youngest:


LouisB
Chefguy
TreacherousCretin
jabiru
Shodan
runner pat
SeldomSeen
Khadaji
Little Nemo
nonacetone
Leaffan
missred
Ellen Cherry
Oakminster
Sampiro
zoid
Suburban Plankton
Valgard
Superfluous Parentheses
wheresgeorge04
Living Well Is Best Revenge
Ura-Maru
Anaamika
FrancisCastle
Idle Thoughts
Antigen
Hades
rhubarbarin
chizzuk
Inner Stickler

Put me in between Shodan and runner pat. Although I didn't give my age directly, I mentioned I'm as old as Sputnik, which occurred in 1957. So I'll say how old I am now. 54.

[Electric Warrior]

I am 20. I'm surprised how few people are in my age group. I started lurking on the board the summer before I started high school, so I guess I was 14, but I didn't sign up until the board went free to post. I'm kind of amazed that I've been reading the SDMB for six years.

[Inner Stickler]

Shhh, you'll irritate the greybeards

[Siam Sam]

We'll just say well into my 50s.

[Greenlight]

I had no idea that 41-50 would be in the majority. I'm used to board with a younger demographic.

That said, I'm in my twenties...23 to be exact.

[Siam Sam]

Originally Posted by Greenlight

I had no idea that 41-50 would be in the majority.

No, a majority would be more than 50%. When it's more than the others but less than 50%, that's called a "plurality."

[Rala]

I'm nineteen. Youngest in this thread so far!

[Kolak of Twilo]

Somewhere between forty and death.

Originally Posted by Siam Sam

No, a majority would be more than 50%. When it's more than the others but less than 50%, that's called a "plurality."

Geez Sam, you might as well stand out there shaking your cane and screaming at the whippersnappers to get off your lawn.

48.66 years if you really need to know.

[Greenlight]

I guess technically the poll doesn't automatically mean there are more people of a certain age group anyway.

[Rhiannon8404]

42

[Colibri]

59. I plan to stay this age for several years at least.

[yola]

I'm a 55 model.

[Siam Sam]

Originally Posted by Kolak of Twilo

Geez Sam, you might as well stand out there shaking your cane and screaming at the whippersnappers to get off your lawn.

These distinctions are important. Dagnabbit!

[Locrian]

I'm 40 years, 5 months. I was born at the end of December. My father, being a CPA, was joked about at the office saying that he induced labor to deduct me.

[panache45]

Originally Posted by Giles

We old folk die (or go senile, which has much the same effect) . . .

But that doesn't stop us from being Dopers (I mean going senile, not dying).

And I'm 65. Some days it's the new 40; other days it's the new 80.

[Malacandra]

Just changed categories here... 51.

[Dung Beetle]

Originally Posted by LouisB

I'm 71 but I feel like a 21 year old with something damn bad wrong.

I’m 40 and 5/6ths so I just went ahead and voted myself into the next bracket.

[swampbear]

I'm 56 and damn proud I made it this far. The squeeze is also 56 but I'll be 57 in July so for about five months he calls me a cradle robber.

[Zeldar]

69 until December.

[Trom]

27. I Started lurking here when I was 18.

[Anaamika]

So the poll shows that most of us Dopers (who take polls!) are between the ages of 30 and 50. That is not old no matter how you slice and dice it. We are a mature group, I suppose, but not old!

[Giles]

Originally Posted by Anaamika

So the poll shows that most of us Dopers (who take polls!) are between the ages of 30 and 50. That is not old no matter how you slice and dice it. We are a mature group, I suppose, but not old!

Back in the middle of the last century I would have thought it was old: but now, about 60 years later, my opinions have mellowed a bit.

[Hermitian]

Originally Posted by Anaamika

So the poll shows that most of us Dopers (who take polls!) are between the ages of 30 and 50. That is not old no matter how you slice and dice it. We are a mature group, I suppose, but not old!

I'm probably going to get jumped on, but I would guess that the largest age bracket for a general topic inernet forum is not normally the 40-50 age bracket. No, I don't have a cite onhand.

[cmyk]

Climbed aboard when I was 28, and now I'm 38.

[Kaio]

You know, I was going to say something about all the youngins who've spent a quarter of their lives here, and then I did the math. I've been here for about 22% of my life.

So far the poll skews as I expected, though -- mostly 30s and 40s. (I am 30-something.)

[Rachellelogram]

26. Sex life is getting better by the year, though, so I don't think I'm going to mind turning 30. 40 might be an issue

[Anaamika]

Originally Posted by Hermitian

I'm probably going to get jumped on, but I would guess that the largest age bracket for a general topic inernet forum is not normally the 40-50 age bracket. No, I don't have a cite onhand.

That's why I said we're mature, but 40 or 50 is not old, I'm sorry to say. It's just middle-aged.

[Giles]

Back at post #17, jjimm speculated that dopers would be a year older than they were in my poll of a year ago. With 280 votes in this poll (and 600 from last year), the mean has in fact dropped: about 40.5 years last year, and 39.8 years this year. I don't know how to check if that's significant statistically, but it does suggest that young people are joining faster than old people are dropping out.

[Johanna]

51. But it sounds better in Italian: cinquantuno. Heck, everything sounds better in Italian.

I've spent about 22.3% of my life as a Doper. So anyway what do you suppose is the reason for 30- and 40-somethings to dominate so preponderantly?

[Scumpup]

I'm in great shape for a man of 70. Too bad I'm only 49.

[Johanna]

Originally Posted by Locrian

I'm 40 years, 5 months. I was born at the end of December. My father, being a CPA, was joked about at the office saying that he induced labor to deduct me.

My dad, being a CPA, always made the exact same joke about my sister, also born at the end of December. As a matter of fact, she was induced. But I'm pretty sure that the reason for it being a tax deduction was a joke.

[Kaio]

Originally Posted by Anaamika

That's why I said we're mature, but 40 or 50 is not old, I'm sorry to say. It's just middle-aged.

I'm not middle-aged until I'm at least fifty. (I don't care how irrational that is. )

[Crotalus]

I'm 57.

[pbbth]

I turn 29 in about 3 weeks.

[Chessic Sense]

Originally Posted by Anaamika

ETA: I am 35.

Right. So like he said...old.


You old timers may be amused that this summer's hit dance, the Shuffle (Youtube), is basically a Charleston. You not-so-old timers may be amused that the other half of the dance is just a Running Man. You really-not-so-old timers will recognize it as a modern version of the Melbourne Shuffle.


I giggle at the thought of the young side of this poll dancing off against the "more experienced" side of it and getting crushed.

[BMalion]

50

But you know what they say, 50 is the new 49.

[notquitekarpov]

Just turned 47.

[Zeldar]

Originally Posted by Giles

A practically identical poll was started by me a bit over a year ago. It will be interesting to see how similar the results are on this poll.

And some other data gathering on older Dopers, as well as links to other similar threads, can be seen at

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=555195
Old Folks: Stand and be counted
03-09-2010, 07:15 AM

[Invisible Chimp]

Originally Posted by Anaamika

So the poll shows that most of us Dopers (who take polls!) are between the ages of 30 and 50. That is not old no matter how you slice and dice it. We are a mature group, I suppose, but not old!

Mature is just a synonym for old! When I first joined, I would've thought being between 30 and 50 was ancient. Now I am (barely) between 30 and 50. I'll be 32 and 1/2 later this month, 33 before Xmas.

[Jman]

I'm 33. I was 22 when I joined. So a third of my life on the SDMB.

[BTEzra04]

19--I've been lurking here since...like...maybe 14? It's taken me ages to register, haha.

[Asimovian]

Originally Posted by NinetyWt

Other fun 'age' threads:

What Dopers were born in the same year?

Who is the youngest user of the Dope?

I came in here to post that first thread link, and I thought, "I bet that punk NinetyWt is gonna beat me to it!"



ETA: I'll be 36 in a couple of weeks. Still trying to convince my fiancee that, given my family's lifespan history, I'm well into mid-life crisis mode, and therefore, deserve a 70-inch television.

[Shirley Ujest]

Originally Posted by jjimm

I was a lot younger when I joined the SDMB.

It's aged me.

Like fine wine.



Who's the 90 year old?