# In which 5-year period were you born? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 10, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333 "2013-04-10T16:29:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/41 "2013-04-16T18:01:39Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Born in 1986 šŸ™‚ You all are making me feel so young šŸ˜ƒ Fine ---- now get the Hell off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/42 "2013-04-17T14:17:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > October 1953. All you kids get offa my lawn! Youā€™re just a kid. Get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/43 "2013-04-17T17:53:11Z")
We baby busters are living up to our name. Yay, demographic lull! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/44 "2013-04-18T01:36:04Z")
Iā€™ve located some other threads that deal with ages, birth years and even birthdays, as well as some other related concepts. This is an expansion of the list linked to in the OP. If you know of other similar threads, please provide link(s) to it/them. ========================================== > **[Birthday List](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=66549)** > > What the hell, Iā€™m bored, so Iā€™m going to start a birthday list. Okay, so call me the happy fuzzy bunny of the SDMB, but I just donā€™t think anybody should be forgotten on their birthday. I wonā€™t be belaboring the server by starting a special thread... Birthday List 04-06-2001, 05:39 AM Eutychus > **[Poll: Approximately how old are you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=218601)** > > ā€¦version 6141241, I bet. Unfortunately, I believe ā€œoldā€ and ā€œageā€ are under the search string length limit. Choices: a) 0-15 b) 16-22 c) 23-30 d) 31-40 e) 41-50 f) 50+ B for me. The crowd here seems to be absolutely ancient by my standards,... Poll: Approximately how old are you? 10-21-2003, 03:13 AM electric!sheep > **[What Dopers were born in the same year?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=458574)** > > I realize this thread probably wonā€™t fly with people who donā€™t care to share their age, but I was inspired by this thread on knowing people very close to you in age, so I figured Iā€™d give it a shot. Just post your year of birth and find out who else... What Dopers were born in the same year? 03-05-2008, 04:41 PM Asimovian > **[What song was #1 on the day you were born](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=478198)** > > Some people believe our lives are profoundly influenced by whatever pop song was number one on the day we were born. On the day Heather Mills (the ex Mrs McCartney) was born (12th Jan 1968) it was Hello Goodbye by The Beatles! My number #1ā€™s are: ... What song was #1 on the day you were born 08-04-2008, 12:21 PM Spiritinthesky > **[The SDMB birthday project](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=506227)** > > Soā€¦ when is your birthday? No need for the day or the year, but what is the month? Iā€™m hoping to get enough responses for statistical significance. Iā€™ll start you off: November. The SDMB birthday project 02-12-2009, 09:15 AM tdn > **[What is the average age of Dopers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554346)** > > 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... What is the average age of Dopers? 03-02-2010, 04:21 PM middleman > **[How old are you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554352)** > > In an attempt to answer the question in this thread: How old are you, rounded down to the nearest whole year? How old are you? 03-02-2010, 04:55 PM Giles > **[Old Folks: Stand and be counted](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=555195)** > > As of this hour 440 Dopers have responded to the Poll: How old are you? in In My Humble Opinion started 03-02-2010, 04:55 PM by Giles The breakdown of the Over 50 crowd is: 50-59 years 61 13.86% 60-69 years 23 5.23% ... Old Folks: Stand and be counted 03-09-2010, 07:15 AM Zeldar > **[THIS IS THE DOPER YEAR/MONTH/DECADE OF BIRTH POLL (ignore all others)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=555733)** > > A Poll: click your birth year/month/decade Inspired obviously by the birth year poll, Iā€™ve placed a poll here as a column to determine by completely non-scientific random sample the average and mode ages of Dopers. Please select the 2 year range in... THIS IS THE DOPER YEAR/MONTH/DECADE OF BIRTH POLL (ignore all others) 03-13-2010, 11:24 AM Sampiro > **[How old are you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=610944)** > > In another thread, Really? Hmm. Letā€™s find out! I just did ranges, not exact ages, but you can post your age if you want. I think 13 is the minimum age to be a Doper. Poll to follow. ETA: I am 35. How old are you? 06-02-2011, 03:33 PM Anaamika [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=682207](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=682207) How many Feb. 29s have you seen? 02-13-2013, 08:38 AM Zeldar # [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=686215](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=686215) How many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime? 03-25-2013, 09:02 AM Annie-Xmas ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/45 "2013-04-18T02:20:52Z")
1998 ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/46 "2013-04-18T02:26:07Z")
Knew it, **Qin Shi Haungdi** and **SuperSmartAlex** are the only ones in my age group. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/47 "2013-04-22T22:06:34Z")
This thing has been stuck on 349 voters for days now. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/48 "2013-04-23T08:27:44Z")
Itā€™s 350, now. šŸ˜ƒ October, 1960 ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/49 "2013-04-23T18:10:07Z")
Top of the bell curve baby! And, you 1981-1985ers are screwing up a perfectly nice bell curve. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/50 "2013-04-24T13:09:28Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Hereā€™s how things have changed over the course of the latest 50 votes: > > ```auto > > > 1936-1940 1 0.40% 1936-1940 1 0.33% -0.07% 1936-1940 -0.07% > 1941-1945 7 2.80% 1941-1945 7 2.33% -0.47% 1941-1945 -0.47% > 1946-1950 9 3.60% 1946-1950 10 3.33% -0.27% 1946-1950 -0.27% > 1951-1955 16 6.40% 1951-1955 19 6.33% -0.07% 1951-1955 -0.07% > 1956-1960 30 12.00% 1956-1960 40 13.33% 1.33% 1956-1960 1.33% > 1961-1965 38 15.20% 1961-1965 43 14.33% -0.87% 1961-1965 -0.87% > 1966-1970 51 20.40% 1966-1970 60 20.00% -0.40% 1966-1970 -0.40% > 1971-1975 29 11.60% 1971-1975 30 10.00% -1.60% 1971-1975 -1.60% > 1976-1980 26 10.40% 1976-1980 30 10.00% -0.40% 1976-1980 -0.40% > 1981-1985 27 10.80% 1981-1985 37 12.33% 1.53% 1981-1985 1.53% > 1986-1990 13 5.20% 1986-1990 18 6.00% 0.80% 1986-1990 0.80% > 1991-1995 1 0.40% 1991-1995 3 1.00% 0.60% 1991-1995 0.60% > 1996-2000 1 0.40% 1996-2000 1 0.33% -0.07% 1996-2000 -0.07% > 2001-2005 0 0.00% 2001-2005 0 0.00% 0.00% 2001-2005 0.00% > 2006-2010 1 0.40% 2006-2010 1 0.33% -0.07% 2006-2010 -0.07% > > Voters: 250 Voters: 300 > > ``` > > Scroll right to see the percentage changes by themselves. =========================== And hereā€™s an update of the same analysis after 375 votes: ```auto 1936-1940 1 0.40% 1936-1940 2 0.53% 0.13% 1936-1940 0.13% 1941-1945 7 2.80% 1941-1945 8 2.13% -0.67% 1941-1945 -0.67% 1946-1950 9 3.60% 1946-1950 13 3.47% -0.13% 1946-1950 -0.13% 1951-1955 16 6.40% 1951-1955 23 6.13% -0.27% 1951-1955 -0.27% 1956-1960 30 12.00% 1956-1960 45 12.00% 0.00% 1956-1960 0.00% 1961-1965 38 15.20% 1961-1965 48 12.80% -2.40% 1961-1965 -2.40% 1966-1970 51 20.40% 1966-1970 76 20.27% -0.13% 1966-1970 -0.13% 1971-1975 29 11.60% 1971-1975 39 10.40% -1.20% 1971-1975 -1.20% 1976-1980 26 10.40% 1976-1980 41 10.93% 0.53% 1976-1980 0.53% 1981-1985 27 10.80% 1981-1985 50 13.33% 2.53% 1981-1985 2.53% 1986-1990 13 5.20% 1986-1990 23 6.13% 0.93% 1986-1990 0.93% 1991-1995 1 0.40% 1991-1995 3 0.80% 0.40% 1991-1995 0.40% 1996-2000 1 0.40% 1996-2000 3 0.80% 0.40% 1996-2000 0.40% 2001-2005 0 0.00% 2001-2005 0 0.00% 0.00% 2001-2005 0.00% 2006-2010 1 0.40% 2006-2010 1 0.27% -0.13% 2006-2010 -0.13% Voters: 250 Voters: 375 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/51 "2013-05-02T20:32:40Z")
To see how individual years within these 5-year groups are breaking out for the Over-49 crowd, see [Dopers born before 1964 ā€“ Master List](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=689847) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/52 "2014-08-01T11:14:11Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > To see how individual years within these 5-year groups are breaking out for the Over-49 crowd, see [Dopers born before 1964 ā€“ Master List](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=689847) Iā€™m bumping this thread so as not to have to create another such survey of age groups and associated information. The notion of a ā€œGeezer Groupā€ came up in some recent threads and it looked like it might be time for an update thread. After looking over the crop that I have had anything to do with (a partial list of which may be seen in [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16253470&postcount=1)) it seems that just resurrecting this one is the simplest approach. Using your own definition of when ā€œgeezerhoodā€ starts, these 5-year bunches should give some approximation of how the SDMB population **that participate in such polls** are distributed in numbers. Add to the stats or add comments and observations as your mood strikes. And for an update to the ā€œMaster Listā€ mentioned above, check out [Dopers born before 1964 ā€“ Master List ā€“ Updated Oct/10/2013](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=704509) which was last posted to in Post #63 11-07-2013, 04:07 PM. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/53 "2014-08-01T20:10:04Z")
Iā€™m a youngā€™un - 1996-2000. OK, OK, Iā€™m getting off your stupid lawn . . . ---
**Author:** ![BMember](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@BMember](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMember)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/54 "2014-08-02T18:27:28Z")
1991 to 1995. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/55 "2014-08-03T03:32:31Z")
At the 500 Voters point, Iā€™m continuing to be puzzled by this group: 1966-1970 86 19.11% 1971-1975 48 10.67% 1976-1980 48 10.67% 1981-1985 58 12.89% It seems that either the 1971-1980 period is under-represented or else the 1981-1985 period is over-represented. I canā€™t figure why that would be. Iā€™ve been watching this graph since before the recent flurry of activity where the voters total has gone from 412 to 450 in a very short time. Couple days in fact. Do you have any ideas on what may be behind such a thing? ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/56 "2014-08-03T03:55:15Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Do you have any ideas on what may be behind such a thing? Well, hereā€™s a random graph I found of [the birth rate over the decades](http://jayman.blog.com/files/2012/06/795px-US_Birth_Rates-W.png). It would appear that the 70s saw a dip, which partially recovered in the early 80s - what youā€™re seeing here might just be indicative of the general population. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/57 "2014-08-03T03:55:16Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > At the 500 Voters point, Iā€™m continuing to be puzzled by this group: That should have said 450 Voters point. Duh! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/58 "2014-08-03T03:58:14Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > Well, hereā€™s a random graph I found of [the birth rate over the decades](http://jayman.blog.com/files/2012/06/795px-US_Birth_Rates-W.png). It would appear that the 70s saw a dip, which partially recovered in the early 80s - what youā€™re seeing here might just be indicative of the general population. Good thought and wonderful graph. Convincing on the face of it. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/59 "2014-08-24T08:40:28Z")
Come on, people! We only have about 322 Votes to go before we catch up to the ones at [How old are you?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=610944) which has been up since 06-02-2011 and has amassed ā€œVoters: 793ā€ at the time of this post. The sad thing is that the ages of many of the Voters in that older thread will have increased by up to 3 years in the meantime, so thereā€™s going to be a mismatch in the data. This threadā€™s dates wonā€™t change so the actual distribution of our ages ought to be more accurate ā€“ except for the ones who LIED! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333/60 "2014-08-24T09:49:15Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > Well, hereā€™s a random graph I found of [the birth rate over the decades](http://jayman.blog.com/files/2012/06/795px-US_Birth_Rates-W.png). It would appear that the 70s saw a dip, which partially recovered in the early 80s - what youā€™re seeing here might just be indicative of the general population. I believe that was known as the ā€œbaby bust,ā€ and it really began in the mid 60s (but peaked ā€“ or bottomed out ā€“ in the late 70s, so it still seems to explain the bimodality of this threadā€™s poll pretty well.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-5-year-period-were-you-born/655333.md?page=4)