# The Definitive 2005 SDMB Demographics Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2005, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423 "2005-06-08T07:51:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/101 "2005-06-09T02:46:27Z")
Ethnicity: 1/4 German, 3/4 Slovak Nationality: American Residence: Between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio Sex: f Age: 26 Status: Single but trying. Trying so hard…_sigh_ Children: None if I’m lucky. I have a dog (f, 3) Education: BS Journalism from Kent State Occupation: Web Design - I own my own company Religion: Lutheran by birth but I dunna go to church anymore ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/102 "2005-06-09T02:53:03Z")
Ethnicity: Metis (Native/European descent) Nationality: Canadian Residence: Ontario, Canada Sex: F Age: 25 Status: Married Children: Nope Education: College Diploma Occupation: Graphic Designer Religion: Mix of Catholic/Aboriginal beliefs ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/103 "2005-06-09T02:54:56Z")
Ethnicity\*: WASP Nationality: American Residence: Indiana Sex: F Age: 45 Status: Happily Married Children: One step (m, 23) Education: Undergraduate from Indiana University Occupation: Insurance Adjuster Religion: Raised Lutheran but currently sans any affiliation ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/104 "2005-06-09T02:59:00Z")
Ethnicity\*: 1/2 Irish, 1/2 Scottish Nationality: Canadian Residence: Sex: M Age: 27 (for a few days anyhow) Status: Single (hopefully this will come to an end soon too) Children: none Education: B.Comm, working on Film degree Occupation: Student Religion: Buddhism ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_Schmeese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Marconi\_Schmeese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_Schmeese)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/105 "2005-06-09T02:59:29Z")
Ethnicity: Caucasian - 1/2 British, 1/4 German, 1/4 American Cherokee Indian Nationality: American Residence: Alpharetta, Georgia, USA Sex: F Age: 30 Status: Married Children: Not interested Education: MBA (Masters) Occupation: President, COO Religion: Agnostic ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/106 "2005-06-09T03:00:55Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > _Michelle_. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! :smack: :smack: Gay Paris and all that. I had hardly batted an eyelid. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/107 "2005-06-09T03:00:59Z")
Ethnicity: White Nationality: Canadian (Quebecoise) Residence: Montreal, QC Sex: F Age: 24 Status: single Children: none Education: BSc (Physiology), McGill University Occupation: student. Next year, lab technologist Religion: Not-so-practising Catholic ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/108 "2005-06-09T03:48:02Z")
Ethnicity: Scottish, German Nationality: Canadian Residence: Victoria, BC Sex: F Age: 26 Status: single Children: none Education: BSc, MSc Occupation: glorified lab tech Religion: none ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/109 "2005-06-09T03:54:33Z")
Ethnicity: Caucasian Nationality: USA Residence: Tulsa, Oklahoma Sex: F Age: 57 Status: Married (25 years) Children: None living Education: Postgraduate Occupation: Google Answers Researcher Religion: Christian ---
**Author:** ![Barely\_Adequate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@Barely\_Adequate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barely_Adequate)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/110 "2005-06-09T04:15:42Z")
Ethnicity: Decadent Irish Caucasoid Nationality: USA-ite Residence: Port St Lucie FL Gender: M Sex: Mostly Fantasy Now Age: 66.6 Status: Divorced Children: 2 sons (adult) Education: AB, Philosophy; MA, English Occupation: (Retired) Teacher, Ins. Underwriter Religion: Catholic (nominal) -Richard ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/111 "2005-06-09T04:27:26Z")
Etnicity: Scot & Irish Nationality: USA Residence: California desert Sex: M Age: 82 Status: Married Children: 2 Education: BSEE. Three postgrad semesters (widely separated in time). Occupation: Retired (1981) Religion: None ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/112 "2005-06-09T04:30:26Z")
Etnicity: Dutch & Polish Nationality: USA Residence: Chicago Sex: M Age: 30 Status: Single Children: 0 Education: BA from Michigan Occupation: Union Organizer Religion: Christian ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/113 "2005-06-09T04:30:42Z")
Updated Statistics: Numbers of Responses: 96 Male: 57 Female: 39 Male Age Range: 17 to 66 years (one unknown age) Female Age Range: 17 to 57 years (another unknown age) Average Male Age: 33.9 years Average Female Age: 32.3 years Average Marriages per doper: 0.56 marriages Average Children per doper: 0.77 (one unknown number of children) And one more stats for this batch: Average Post Count per doper as of time of data recording: 1987.6 posts Average Post Count for Male Dopers: 2302.21 posts Average Post Count for Female Dopers: 1527.7 posts And yes Access probably would have been easier, but I don’t have access to it ☹ So I make do with what I have. I’ve done a fair amount of simplifying input data, such as dog piling all Ethnicity’s involving 2 or more origins as simply “Mutt” - I apologize now for the over simplification, but as I do not have an easy way to track all the different countries people claim origin. However, if you claim White or Caucasian, then you’re collected under “White”. All other groups have their own title, but for simplification I had to combine those. I also chose to combine all Protestant churches under the Protestant label. So if you want more in depth stats, then you’ll have to pick it up, but with what I’m doing - that’s plenty in depth for me 😉 Sincerely, Your number cruncher ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/114 "2005-06-09T04:36:47Z")
Excellent work, stats man. Someone would have been on to me to do shtg otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/115 "2005-06-09T04:46:17Z")
**Ethnicity:** White (Irish/Italian) **Nationality:** American **Residence:** Virginia **Sex:** F **Age:** 33 **Status:** Single, never married **Children:** 0 **Education:** B.A. Communications; working on M.A. English **Occupation:** Technical Writer/Editor **Religion:** Agnostic ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/116 "2005-06-09T06:21:25Z")
Etnicity: German, Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish, Mohawk. Nationality: American Residence: The hinterlands of LA County (Lancaster, California) Sex: F Age: 24 Status: Married Children: 0 Education: AA, back to work on the BA soon. Occupation: Domestic Goddess Religion: Apatheist (meh.) ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/117 "2005-06-09T06:31:22Z")
Ethnicity: Scots, Irish, French, Welsh Nationality: American Residence: Nashville, Tennessee Sex: F Age: 61 Status: married Children: legal adoption of adult step-daughter in progress, two adult step-sons Grandchildren: Four (ages 6 to 18, three girls and my hero) Education: B.A. in English and drama/speech, one year post grad in psychology Occupation: retired high school teacher Religion: Christian, somewhat open to other faiths ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/118 "2005-06-09T07:12:08Z")
Admit it, **roger** - this whole thread is just an experiment to see who removes the asterisk next to ‘Ethnicity.’ ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/119 "2005-06-09T07:21:16Z")
> [@Ace309](#): > > Admit it, **roger** - this whole thread is just an experiment to see who removes the asterisk next to ‘Ethnicity.’ Not exactly, 309 (if I may). It’s designed to determine what type of person would comment to the effect that it’s merely an experiment to see who removes the asterisk. Mods, you may now close this thread. ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423/120 "2005-06-09T08:25:55Z")
Whoa! Before this thread is closed… **Ethnicity** : Malay **Nationality** : Malaysian **Residence** : Malaysia **Sex** : M **Age** : Gonna be 32 in October **Status** : Married **Children** : 2 yr old daugther **Grandchildren** : 0 **Education** : I somehow managed to get a degree in International Relations **Occupation** : Help manage the family business **Religion** : Islam [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-definitive-2005-sdmb-demographics-thread/307423.md?page=7)