Has Cecil et. al. ever done any marketing research (and released it on the boards) of the average age of the people who post on the Straight Dope Message Boards?
I ask this because of a thread in CS that ask where were you when John Lennon was murdered. I was five years old when it happened, so I had no real memory of the event.
Feel free to add opinions, but I am looking for the existence of any data that has been confirmed (thus, I post this in GQ instead of IMHO).
The poll should be placed where the largest number of dopers will respond. I would believe that more people peruse IMHO than ATMB. Based upon the logic that a poll about demographic information about Dopers should be in ATMB, then every poll in IMHO, should be moved to ATMB.
Based on this poll I feel comfortable with the idea that the “average age” of Dopers is between 20 and 50 with the middle of that range being 35 as a good “plus-or-minus 10 years” sort of thing.
Another similar poll with 5-year brackets, assuming at least as many Dopers respond, ought to pin it down better.
Just as long as things don’t go in such a way as to exclude us old farts, I’m content with letting the younger crowd dictate the threads and topics of conversation. I don’t expect a whole lot of response to mine these days.
The poll should be placed where the largest number of dopers will respond. I would believe that more people peruse IMHO than ATMB. Based upon the logic that a poll about demographic information about Dopers should be in ATMB, then every poll in IMHO, should be moved to ATMB.