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Poll: How Old Are You?

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:59 pm
by person
Hi. I go by the name of person (note the lower case "p" :P ), a relatively new Oolite player (starting to like it, though).

I thought I'd just start a poll to figure out how old people here are exacly.

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:05 am
by Rxke
Bump.

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:38 pm
by Murgh
hey. happy birthday, Rxke!
:D

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:53 pm
by Rxke
:lol:

Not my birthday, heehee, just thought this poll too interesting to let it slide into oblivion...
So I 'bumped' it up...

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:17 pm
by jonnycuba
yeah were all old men apart from the odd whippersnapper!

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:12 pm
by Murgh
oh. thought you made it public you had moved on to a new bracket. ;)

I'm not sure what science we can gather from this poll.. that a few were grownup when OG Elite cam out, some not yet born, and most imbetween..

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:57 pm
by Star Gazer
Yeah, sad to say, I was already old enough to have known better when I got addicted to Elite the first time round!!

Still, they say you're only as old as the woman you feel... :wink:

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:29 pm
by Corbeau
Coolish 8)

(off to the first page again :wink: )

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:40 pm
by drew
Still, they say you're only as old as the woman you feel...
That only saves me a couple of years! :wink:

I'm 36 btw. First played Elite when I was 13.

Cheers,

Drew.

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:52 pm
by Arexack_Heretic
If I vote now, I'll be able to offset the mean a little from the 30-ish group.
Next month I'll be undeniably in the 'old' category. ;)

ps Notice how the distribution follows almost exactly an exponential curve at first?

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 5:14 pm
by Corbeau
I'd call it "Gaussian".

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 5:38 pm
by Arexack_Heretic
not quite, the run-up is too high.
drop-off after the peak is linear.

Possibly a finer group-size as well as a greater population size would pull it into the expected gausian bellcurve.
I suspect, however, that there will always be a bias towards younger ages, causing a 'bearded' peak.

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 5:51 pm
by reills
There is a saying in the souther US "Older than dirt." Well, dirt sends me a father's day card! :shock:

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 5:55 pm
by Arexack_Heretic
you rock! ;)

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:14 pm
by Captain Hesperus
Alls I can say is that I'm a bt younger than TGHC, which equates to slightly younger than the Dead Sea Scrolls....:wink:

Captain Hesperus