# Demographic that frequent "The Straight Dope"?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demographic-that-frequent-the-straight-dope/542246
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**Created:** [June 7, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demographic-that-frequent-the-straight-dope/542246 "2010-06-07T04:34:52Z")
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### Author: ![Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adroit)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demographic-that-frequent-the-straight-dope/542246/1 "2010-06-07T04:34:52Z")

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I’m a 17 year old male, and I was just wondering what sort of demographic visit this forum/site. From what I’ve picked up everyone seems to be middle aged…

Enlighten me?

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### Author: ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demographic-that-frequent-the-straight-dope/542246/2 "2010-06-07T05:10:53Z")

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> [@Adroit](#):
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> I’m a 17 year old male, and I was just wondering what sort of demographic visit this forum/site. From what I’ve picked up everyone seems to be middle aged…
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> Enlighten me?

With facts, hah

A rough guess would be that the majority of posters are early to mid 40’s.

Declan

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### Author: ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2010, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demographic-that-frequent-the-straight-dope/542246/3 "2010-06-07T07:13:56Z")

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I doubt that any decade comprises a majority. There are plenty of college-aged folks here, too.

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### Author: ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demographic-that-frequent-the-straight-dope/542246/4 "2010-06-07T08:50:51Z")

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We’ve actually done this, earlier this year. There was [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=555195), linking to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554352).

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### Author: ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2010, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demographic-that-frequent-the-straight-dope/542246/5 "2010-06-07T12:01:36Z")

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Since the OP is more a question about this message board, let’s move this from GQ to ATMB. And, I see a helpful link to previous threads.

**samclem** Moderator, GQ