# average doper age? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 5, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625 "2002-12-05T03:59:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/201 "2002-12-11T04:47:30Z")
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**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/202 "2002-12-11T04:49:01Z")
HA! I’m the only poster on page 5. Anyone care to join me? ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_Nazi\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@Soup\_Nazi\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_Nazi_1)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/203 "2002-12-11T06:46:11Z")
Well, I want to share with everyone my dedication to the SDMB. It is 0150 EST and I have two final exams today, one beginning in a little over 6 hours. But I felt compelled to share the average and the breakdown thus far (minus two entries): ¸,.·I am 21´¯`· The average is: 31.722826086956521739130434782609 Age…Frequency 14…2 15…1 16…3 17…9 18…5 19…8 20…4 21…13 22…7 23…3 24…2 25…8 26…6 27…4 28…8 29…8 30…5 31…10 32…7 33…2 34…4 35…5 36…6 37…6 38…3 39…1 40…1 41…3 42…4 43…3 44…4 45…1 46…6 47…2 48…2 49…2 50…2 51…1 52…2 53…1 54…3 55…1 56…0 57…1 58…0 59…3 60…1 61…0 62…1 Plus one who is whatever a “double-nickel” is, and one who is as old as Cher and Madonna (were not factored in) Sorry if there are errors, I used the windows calculator and it is really late…er… early… i’m tired ---
**Author:** ![Spoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Spoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoc)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/204 "2002-12-11T07:50:15Z")
Soup Nazi, I got it, I got it! After all that figurin’ you’re capable of, this’ll probably hit you soon: I THINK double nickels would be 55? But I am only guessing, so I better tone it down! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/205 "2002-12-12T11:07:22Z")
I’m 62. How did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/206 "2002-12-12T12:32:07Z")
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**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/207 "2002-12-12T12:40:17Z")
_Tugs the average down_ 14 year old here. I feel so young… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pablito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@Pablito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablito)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/208 "2002-12-12T14:37:14Z")
**Earthling** and **Soup-Nazi** –Thanks to both of you for your respective contributions to our better grasp of doper ages. Amazing. **Earthling** , your statistical breakdown and analysis are quite impressive and helpful in describing the trend that many seem to sense, which is that the huge-post-count dopers tend to be older than the average. For anyone with time to kill or other responsibilities to avoid: I’d still like to see some kind of ‘post-count-weighted’ average, so that we could come closer to pinning down the average age of the writer of the average post. You could do this by multiplying each respondent’s age by his/her post count, add all of these up, then divide the total by the total number of posts made by all respondents. This would give us a sense of the average age of the writer of any given post. My wild guess? A weighted average would be more like mid-30’s. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/209 "2002-12-12T21:17:10Z")
26, female. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/210 "2002-12-13T01:05:27Z")
25, male. How YOU doin’, **Lady**? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Copper\_Pin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Copper\_Pin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Copper_Pin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/211 "2002-12-13T05:03:18Z")
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**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/212 "2002-12-13T08:12:51Z")
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**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/213 "2002-12-13T12:07:30Z")
45 male ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/214 "2002-12-13T16:45:19Z")
39 years, 297 days. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/215 "2002-12-13T18:31:27Z")
Male 24 years…add another newbie to the list. Is it just me or do a lot of people have feb birthdays? Maybe I’m biased (Born the same day as Lincoln, feb 12th). ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/216 "2002-12-13T19:28:44Z")
39…and a half if you puhleeze ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/217 "2002-12-14T19:26:11Z")
I’m going to pull the average down a little bit---- I’m 13. ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/218 "2002-12-14T19:26:25Z")
I’m going to pull the average down a little bit---- I’m 13. ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/219 "2002-12-14T19:29:17Z")
Damn, double post… I’m sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmom2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Kimmom2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmom2)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-doper-age/140625/220 "2002-12-14T20:02:58Z")
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