# How old are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122 "2011-06-02T20:33:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/61 "2011-06-03T04:37:56Z")
We’ll just say well into my 50s. ---
**Author:** ![Greenlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@Greenlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenlight)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/62 "2011-06-03T04:41:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/63 "2011-06-03T05:11:10Z")
> [@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.” ---
**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/64 "2011-06-03T05:18:19Z")
I’m nineteen. Youngest in this thread so far! ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/65 "2011-06-03T05:26:20Z")
Somewhere between forty and death. > [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Greenlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@Greenlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenlight)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/66 "2011-06-03T05:30:19Z")
I guess technically the poll doesn’t automatically mean there are more people of a certain age group anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/67 "2011-06-03T05:32:40Z")
42 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/68 "2011-06-03T05:38:37Z")
1. I plan to stay this age for several years at least. ---
**Author:** ![yola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/48db29/32.png) [@yola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yola)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/69 "2011-06-03T07:44:49Z")
I’m a 55 model. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/70 "2011-06-03T08:28:04Z")
> [@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! ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/71 "2011-06-03T09:14:58Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/72 "2011-06-03T09:32:36Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/73 "2011-06-03T10:29:23Z")
Just changed categories here… 51. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/74 "2011-06-03T13:59:40Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > I’m 71 but I feel like a 21 year old with something damn bad wrong. :D:D:D I’m 40 and 5/6ths so I just went ahead and voted myself into the next bracket. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/75 "2011-06-03T14:01:10Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/76 "2011-06-03T14:05:32Z")
69 until December. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/77 "2011-06-03T14:17:06Z")
1. I Started lurking here when I was 18. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/78 "2011-06-03T15:05:23Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/79 "2011-06-03T15:15:56Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122/80 "2011-06-03T15:16:56Z")
> [@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. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you/584122.md?page=5)