Mac Rumors Forums Average Age

[OutThere]

Anybody have any speculations about what the average age here is? I was thinking about 21-26 or somewhere in there...

[iGav]

30

[hvfsl]

I was thinking more like 21, since there are a lot of 16-18 year olds here. There are not that many in their 20s but then quite a lot in their 30s and some in their 40s.

[cb911]

not sure about the average age, but i've always thought of MR as being 'young'. is there any way you can search the list of members and calculate the age? maybe one of the demi-gods could help?;)

i'm 18 in case anyone's wondering...

[tazo]

i know there are a lot of teens, and a lot of young people. I would venture a guess at around 24.

[jefhatfield]

there are a few older posters like wdlove, mr anderson, and me who bump up the average age of the frequent posters, but definitely from what i have seen in over three years here is that macrumors is dominated by an average age floating around high school age to about age 25

in life after that, the full time working world swallows up many people and most don't have the same time for online hours as the kids

but in my case, no matter how busy i am, i always find a way to get on here at macrumors whether it's at home, work, school, internet cafe, friend's house, or at a computer store and that's how i keep my daily average to a respectively high five posts per day:)

[mactastic]

I'm 31. As of yesterday.:D

Doing what I can to bring up the MR average age!

[sonofslim]

we should do a weighted analysis, so that 100-year old who posted once doesn't skew the results. now, that genius 2-year old who posts all day might wreck the curve...

[Powerbook G5]

Well I'm 20 if that helps.

[tpjunkie]

I think there was a thread about this already somewhere. I'm 19.

[eyelikeart]

I'm 25 for now...

in 3 weeks though...I'll be in my "mid-late 20's" :eek:

[patrick0brien]

-Gents

A nice, even 30 years. Doing what I can for Generation X.

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by patrick0brien
-Gents

A nice, even 30 years. Doing what I can for Generation X.

and what exactly is that again? ;)


(sorry...I couldn't resist:D)

[arn]

The actual average is about 30 based on everyone who gave their age on registration.

arn

[applemacdude]

14 but I guess the average is about 24

[KBFinFan]

I am 20..

Also, I guess I assume most people here are males? Is this correct? Not to be sexist....

[Powerbook G5]

There are a number of females as well, but yes, the majority of us here are males.

[patrick0brien]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
and what exactly is that again?

-eyelikeart

30 as in years, Generation X - comes before Generation Y.

I couldn't resist either (wh-SMAK!) :D

[coolocity]

Originally posted by arn
The actual average is about 30 based on everyone who gave their age on registration.

arn

Just had to get all technical on us, didn't you? :p

[TEG]

Originally posted by patrick0brien
-eyelikeart

30 as in years, Generation X - comes before Generation Y.

I couldn't resist either (wh-SMAK!) :D

Actually, We perfer the Term "Millennial". BTW: 20 as of just 3 short weeks ago. Doing what I can to protect the world from MicroBorg. :)

TEG

[arn]

Originally posted by KBFinFan
I am 20..

Also, I guess I assume most people here are males? Is this correct? Not to be sexist....

On last check, it was 8% female

http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=39

[Kwyjibo]

i'm 6 years old but I had to say i was 18 otherwise it would let me register...

[rhpenguin]

Im 19. Turning 20 on one of the crappiest days to be born, December 24th.

[Powerbook G5]

Damn, it must suck being shafted as everyone just "combines" your birthday and your Christmas gifts!

[WinterMute]

I'm 39, it's good to be ahead of the curve for a change, anyone know who the oldest regular poster is?

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by WinterMute
I'm 39, it's good to be ahead of the curve for a change, anyone know who the oldest regular poster is?

in this case, ahead=closer to the grave... ;)

i think wdlove is up there at least as far as active posters..

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by patrick0brien
-eyelikeart

30 as in years, Generation X - comes before Generation Y.

I couldn't resist either (wh-SMAK!) :D

ah...touché... ;)

so I need your advice in the drunkie thread man...get there! :eek: :D

[rockman2023]

Originally posted by rhpenguin
Im 19. Turning 20 on one of the crappiest days to be born, December 24th.

I'm 20, will be 21 on Jan. 27. My grandma's b-day is Dec. 24th :D

[Ramsos]

I'm 25 but I will be 26 on september 30th:D :confused: :mad:

[iJon]

17 here. woohoo

iJon

[simX]

Ah, well, the average age of 30 is probably skewed because of all those who didn't give you their age on registration... like me. :p

I'll just say that I'm somewhere between 0 and 100 years old, and leave it at that. ;)

[Gymnut]

Originally posted by arn
On last check, it was 8% female

http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=39

Wow, that high? Astounding!

Btw, 22 here.

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by Gymnut
Wow, that high? Astounding!


HA!

:p

I'm a 15... but sometimes i act 3... but other times I could be a scholar...

Depends.

:rolleyes:

[bryanc]

Like so many 'averages', it's pretty meaningless unless you know the standard deviation and median.

I expect the age distribution isn't normal here...if the mean age is 30 it wouldn't surpise me if the modal age was 25.

I'm 38, which I expect puts me about two standard deviations from the mean, but it would be interesting to know.

Cheers

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by bryanc
Like so many 'averages', it's pretty meaningless unless you know the standard deviation and median.

I expect the age distribution isn't normal here...if the mean age is 30 it wouldn't surpise me if the modal age was 25.

I'm 38, which I expect puts me about two standard deviations from the mean, but it would be interesting to know.

Cheers

bravo! in true nerd form. ;)

[jzieske]

Originally posted by bryanc
Like so many 'averages', it's pretty meaningless unless you know the standard deviation and median.

I expect the age distribution isn't normal here...if the mean age is 30 it wouldn't surpise me if the modal age was 25.

I'm 38, which I expect puts me about two standard deviations from the mean, but it would be interesting to know.

Cheers

Don't get me wrong I took statistics and all those math classes but HUH?

[edit: punctuation]

[pivo6]

Originally posted by bryanc
Like so many 'averages', it's pretty meaningless unless you know the standard deviation and median.

I expect the age distribution isn't normal here...if the mean age is 30 it wouldn't surpise me if the modal age was 25.

I'm 38, which I expect puts me about two standard deviations from the mean, but it would be interesting to know.

Cheers

I have just updated my birthdate and I will be 38 in October. I think I just nudged you/us closer to the mean. :)

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
there are a few older posters like wdlove, mr anderson, and me who bump up the average age of the frequent posters, but definitely from what i have seen in over three years here is that macrumors is dominated by an average age floating around high school age to about age 25

in life after that, the full time working world swallows up many people and most don't have the same time for online hours as the kids

but in my case, no matter how busy i am, i always find a way to get on here at macrumors whether it's at home, work, school, internet cafe, friend's house, or at a computer store and that's how i keep my daily average to a respectively high five posts per dayI have a job, and do volunteer work too, but I manage to read the forums and post my two cents worth most days, whether I have Internet access or not. Just now, I was walking down the street and posted this using telepathy.

[bbarnhart]

Arn said that the average age is 30 for all users, but I wonder what the average age is for people who post an average of once a week. I suspect it is younger. Of course, I suspected that the average age of MacRumors was lower than 30. I thought it would be around 23.

I'm 34. I don't know if I even post once a week. It comes and goes.

[arn]

Originally posted by bryanc
Like so many 'averages', it's pretty meaningless unless you know the standard deviation and median.

I expect the age distribution isn't normal here...if the mean age is 30 it wouldn't surpise me if the modal age was 25.

I'm 38, which I expect puts me about two standard deviations from the mean, but it would be interesting to know.

Cheers

prob true.

see these numbers

http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=129

[Macmaniac]

Well I'm 16 and I bet I'm the youngest active poster since I joined in January of 01. Theres only 30 other people that are currently active from that long ago.

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
I have a job, and do volunteer work too, but I manage to read the forums and post my two cents worth most days, whether I have Internet access or not. Just now, I was walking down the street and posted this using telepathy.

:cool: :D

Nice, I love telepathy.

edit:
Originally posted by Macmaniac
Well I'm 16 and I bet I'm the youngest active poster since I joined in January of 01. Theres only 30 other people that are currently active from that long ago.

Yeah, probably.

You beat me by a few months... but if you moved the date up...

:p

[bryanc]

Originally posted by arn
prob true.

see these numbers

http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=129

Cool...it looks like an F distribution.

Thanks Arn

[ColoJohnBoy]

Just turned twenty two weeks ago. Pretty bitchin'. We seem to be a young(er) crowd.

[aethier]

i am 16, my post count is not that high, because often i am too lazy to post my comment, or some one else already had the same opinion as myself, and don't want to be the guy who repeats everyone else.. But i do read most of the threads, i would say i spend over 2 hours a day on macrumors

aethier

[Phil Of Mac]

I'm 18.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

[true777]

I'm 35 and female... so I guess I'm not exactly the prototypical Mac Rumors member. I go to Mac Rumors when I need a break from writing up my dissertation without leaving the computer.

[tazo]

i am turning 16 in a few weeks...gonna try and get a job :)

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
I'm 18.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

Don't trust anyone from Washington. :-D

I'm really over 30...44 as of the day after this thread started.

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by true777
I'm 35 and female... so I guess I'm not exactly the prototypical Mac Rumors member.Hey true777, you know you can't believe what people say about themselves on the Internet. In fact, numerous scientific studies have shown that most MacRumors members are women in their thirties posing as teenage males. ;)

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by bousozoku
Don't trust anyone from Washington. :-D

I'm really over 30...44 as of the day after this thread started.

Fine, I'll transfer to Stanford if that's what you want :p

[voicegy]

<----45 here. :)

This site rocks as far as the overall maturity level of the younger posters...you never see endless threads of worthless blather and one word comments...I have a healthy respect for these posters. And, of course, good mods keep things in check so such things don't happen as often as on those OTHER boards.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by true777
I'm 35 and female... so I guess I'm not exactly the prototypical Mac Rumors member. I go to Mac Rumors when I need a break from writing up my dissertation without leaving the computer.

my wife and i are heading up to "the farm" and then going to stanford shopping center...we want to do grad work up there at stanford but commute would be far from south bay...how is dissertation going?...i am in beggining stages of getting computer graduate education and phd seems like a ways off for now

i have a good friend who finished computer phd up at stanford 20 years ago and he went there because while he was finishing up his phd at mit, they discontinued his course of study because it was too new, but he was awared two master's degrees from there instead for his efforts...he had to start over again in his doctorate studies and do another four years at stanford where he finally finished and then entered teaching the subject...talk about resilience

but he did those 12 years of hard study to please an abusive father and he never liked computers or anything about it and he hates the job he has logged in twenty more years to...but he has five more years of drudgery before he retires so he can finally do what he wants to with his life...it's kind of sad because he has had a terminal illness for some time and when he gets free in life, if he outlives his dad, he may have some time for himself...sad story though

my path took turns, too..my master's program in school got discontinued but i will be able to salvage some of those units and work again for an appropriate direction but with computers, especially software development, there are no guarantees as my mentor tells me (he has phd friend who put ten years into lisp and another who helped develop, for free, j++ language, but both those profs ended up with no work when their languages died on the vine...what some people like about computers as a hobby is what makes it such a nightmare for those who put their life into it, only to find that much of the field has the shelf life of a loaf of bread ;)

but i have very good phd advisor/mentor and he stresses that i should make the final approach finishing at a good school and i am not faced with great choices in monterey county...but near sf has stanford, cal, and a few others and so cal has a lot of great choices, too but i would hate to move to los angeles area:p

[bousozoku]

True777:

Was the prototypical or stereotypical? :D

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
Hey true777, you know you can't believe what people say about themselves on the Internet. In fact, numerous scientific studies have shown that most MacRumors members are women in their thirties posing as teenage males. ;)

i know the real identity of some of the macrumors crowd...but i won't say for professional considerations...i am the guy who helps people do resumes here sometimes and give tips...and when i find out someone is actually way different in real life than they actually seem like here, it's quite amusing to say the least

overall i know the people by their macrumor's names and when i email them or vice versa, i use my macrumors name otherwise they would not recognize an email from me and prolly trash it:p

...i am not j.hatfield in real life and i am not this person:

www.julianahatfield.com

:p

[pianojoe]

Originally posted by Gymnut
8%? Wow, that high? Astounding!

Btw, 22 here.

Don't forget that minorities will more readily vote in such a poll. That would distort the result a little bit.

BTW, 34, and obviously off the target audience.. ;-)

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by bousozoku
True777:

Was the prototypical or stereotypical? :D

hey, look at when she joined

it goes like this:

in the beginning there was a trinity called arn, blakespot and macrumors and they created a website, and then they created a male member and called him kainjow and they were pleased...then they created a female member and called her true777 and they were pleased...and then they created jefhatfield and all heck broke loose

:p

ps-in case you didn't get it, kainjow, true777, and myself are the only active posters left from the super early days of macrumors from the year 2000 ;)

[themadchemist]

I'll be 17 next month...Man, I'm getting old, at least in my opinion.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
my wife and i are heading up to "the farm" and then going to stanford shopping center...

on the way to stanford ("the farm" as it once was), we went to the apple company store at apple inc in cupertino but they were closed and the parking lot was very barren...but we got to see a tremendously expensive, shiny car with the license plate "1 Infinite Loop" on it but written in a shorter way to fit into 7 standard letters

i wonder who owns that car?:D

when we got to stanford, land of the rich spoiled college students, we found they are not as spoiled anymore being that stanford university sold their shopping center (next to medical school hospital) to a private party but the shopping center will stilll retain the name "stanford shopping center"

could you imagine? what if you have a bad day and get a bad grade on that essay? just go down the bike path, go into neiman marcus and buy a 600 dollar pair of jeans, hit nordstrom and get a matching blose, and get a ciamond encrused watch at cartier and a matching set of earrings at tiffany...my wife and i just went to rodeo blvd in beverly hills (southern california) but we have never seen this type of shopping in northern california...and on a college campus to boot...stanford university still owns the land that the recently sold shops reside on so they will be able to still get commercial rent:p

[pyrotoaster]

I'm a 15 year old (High School sophomore to be exact). But don't you dare get all high and mighty on me, I have a learner's permit! I'll drive to your home and get my revenge. With an adult over 21 who has had their license for over a year. That'll show you.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by pyrotoaster
I'm a 15 year old (High School sophomore to be exact). But don't you dare get all high and mighty on me, I have a learner's permit! I'll drive to your home and get my revenge. With an adult over 21 who has had their license for over a year. That'll show you.

is that 21 year old your significant other?

my wife is 8 years older than me and when i was 18, i had a 27 year old hot babe:D

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
is that 21 year old your significant other?

my wife is 8 years older than me and when i was 18, i had a 27 year old hot babe:D

That's one way to outlive your wife...

[Powerbook G5]

Oooo, Stifler's mom! ;)

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
That's one way to outlive your wife...

with the average american woman outliving the average american man by nine years, she still has me beat

at birth a male born in 1963 or thereabouts can expect to live to 66.7 years

but kids like you, born to mothers who had better pre-natal medical information, and better nutritional information growing up and better medications, gives you the edge and your average life expectancy approaches 70..and a kid born now, with all our advances can expect to live to 70.3 years...women born today can expect to live to 79 years old

one day, maybe a thousand years from now, i think we will have the technology, think 6 mil dollar man, he he, to live to a 100 years for nearly everybody on the planet

people will likely wait until 40 to get married so they can really party it up and there will be true blue supermodels over 50:p

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by pyrotoaster
I'm a 15 year old (High School sophomore to be exact). But don't you dare get all high and mighty on me, I have a learner's permit! I'll drive to your home and get my revenge. With an adult over 21 who has had their license for over a year. That'll show you.

I know that I'm scared. There you are around Chicago and I'm in Floriduh. Just give me a call before you head out to drive, okay? ;)

[true777]

Originally posted by jefhatfield


ps-in case you didn't get it, kainjow, true777, and myself are the only active posters left from the super early days of macrumors from the year 2000 ;) [/B]

yeah, jefhatfield and I were around when they built the pyramids...

Re: Stanford, yes, it's pretty crazy. You see lots of Mercedes and BMWs in the student parking lots. I taught some introductory HCI sections there, and even my undergrads' cars were much nicer than my own. But I have to say, most students are super nice and down to earth... and they *are* pretty darn smart. It's a great school, and certainly feels like a privilege to be there.

I'm going there with a tiny living stipend and without the $$$, btw :(
(just in case anyone was getting ready to propose based on my assumed wealth :D )

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by true777
yeah, jefhatfield and I were around when they built the pyramids...

Re: Stanford, yes, it's pretty crazy. You see lots of Mercedes and BMWs in the student parking lots. I taught some introductory HCI sections there, and even my undergrads' cars were much nicer than my own. But I have to say, most students are super nice and down to earth... and they *are* pretty darn smart. It's a great school, and certainly feels like a privilege to be there.

I'm going there with a tiny living stipend and without the $$$, btw :(
(just in case anyone was getting ready to propose based on my assumed wealth :D )

my wife and i are so sold on stanford and there is no other school i want to finish my studies at

i figure i live only once and if i go to stanford with my wife, we will rack up debt but i would hate for us to go to a lesser school and keep saying to myself, "gee, i wonder what it would be like to have gone to stanford"

being in california, the only other school i can think of on the west coast that is that good all around is USC in southern california and that school, too would cost an arm and a leg...the same dynamic holds there with the great, yet affordable uc school *in this case UCLA, being highly jealous and accusing their rival as being spoiled brats

as a joke at UCLA vs USC games, the largely working class and middle class kids of UCLA like to jangle their keys to the USC side reminding them that the average USC kid probably has a nice mercedes or lexus from mommy and daddy:p

but both being democrats, my wife and i are fascinated with the radical and innovative ideals of the students at uc berkeley...while neither one of us think that far to the left, she wants to go there because her undergrad school back east was just as liberal and she would like to see that innovation for her grad studies

i went to the most conservative university in california, and perhaps the west coast, so i would love to round out my education with something to balance that out:p

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
as a joke at UCLA vs USC games, the largely working class and middle class kids of UCLA like to jangle their keys to the USC side reminding them that the average USC kid probably has a nice mercedes or lexus from mommy and daddy:p

In my experience, the key jangling happens at college football games regardless of class warfare. Of course, it's also possible that the entire Pac-10 ripped off that tradition without knowing what it meant :)

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
In my experience, the key jangling happens at college football games regardless of class warfare. Of course, it's also possible that the entire Pac-10 ripped off that tradition without knowing what it meant :)

the key thing is done everywhere now, but i don't know who started it and for what reason