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How old are ASR's users?

kemmler3D said:
But aside from that I am not sure people would really have an incentive to lie, other than vanity among total strangers.
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Oh, you sweet summer child . . .

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sam_adams said:
Oh, you sweet summer child . . .

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Hey, everyone wants to be seen as young. I still notice if the cashier checks my ID when I buy beer and I'm not quite 40 yet. But when you're on a forum represented by a nickname you made up, a small image you found on the internet, and a location... does anyone actually care?

I am willing to be wrong about this - anyone care to admit they fudged their age ... for the sake of science? :)

We clearly see the privacy motive in the data, but the vanity motive is harder to see if it's there.
 
kemmler3D said:
anyone care to admit they fudged their age ... for the sake of science?
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I use the same date for the age field in all registrations, on all sites, that I choose participate on. It is the singularly most significant date in all human history.
 
Ron Texas said:
Happy birthday to me, I'm a hundred and three... Old people are more worried about whether they will wake up tomorrow than whether their amplifier has a SINAD of 80 or 110.
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DAMN!!! And I thought that i am a senior member at 83 this year!

Ron Texas - I worship at your feet!

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Données démographiques sur le trafic du site web audiosciencereview.com

La composition de l'audience peut révéler la part de marché actuelle d'un site auprès de différents publics. Le public de audiosciencereview.com est composé de 78.15% hommes et 21.85% femmes. La plus grande tranche d'âge des visiteurs est celle des 25 - 34 ans. (Sur le desktop)
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Svend P said:
21% female? Really?
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Actual stats are 13% female. Keep in mind though both this and above stats are guesses by the services as to the gender of the visitor.
 
Ok, I just gathered a complete dataset for all ASR users and here's a new round of graphs.
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Interesting insights:
1. The total post count graph largely looks like a noisier version of the age distribution, indicating there isn't much of a correlation between age and how many posts there are here.
2. The average post count, however, shows a slight correlation between age and average posting activity. This could mean that although there are fewer users who are older, they tend to be chattier. Ignore that huge spike at 82 because I believe that's just some noise.
3. The users over time shows ASR started growing rapidly around 2019 and has had its current trend since 2020.
4. Users tend to be more liked as they get older, discounting the noisy data near the top and bottom age ranges.
 
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Special bonus graph of how the average age of new users is changing over time:
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Looks like ASR's cohort is slowly getting younger, but it's only a slight trend.
 
@bachatero really interesting analysis here, with just a few data points from a lot of users. I think the most encouraging thing is the slowly dropping average age of new users. We're reaching the youths. :D

Or per other hypotheses floating in the thread, people are getting more dishonest over time. :)
 
kemmler3D said:
We're reaching the youths. :D
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The youth has always been there. It is just that they tend to listen with headphones and desktop products far more than stand alone stereos. Us reviewing so much gear in that category is therefore is relevant to them.
 
It may have been better to provide check-boxes for member age-demographics, instead of asking for a specific date-of-birth:
Silent Generation (1928 - 1945)
Baby Boomers (1946 ?-1964)
Generation X (1965 - 1980)
Millennials Y (1981 - 1996)
Generation Z (1997 - 2012)
Alpha Generation (2013 - Present)
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Someone probably would have accused ASR of stereotyping members, and why not?:D
 
bachatero said:
I was interested in seeing the demographics of ASR's userbase to know what kind of people we're dealing with here. However, it's hard to get this information since there's no statistics page providing it. So, I wrote a Python script to scrape all 77K user profiles and gather the ages of everybody who provides it just to see what kind of data we're dealing with. I then analyzed it and got these beautiful statistics.

Age summary (all in years)
Mean: 47.8
Mode: 44
Median: 46
1st quartile: 37
3rd quartile: 58
StDev: 14.9
Total count: 51666

Looks good, but that doesn't really tell us much other than that the average ASR user is in their 40s. How about a histogram?

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From here, we see that the most common ages are in the 40s. The distribution is also heavily skewed to the right. Note that this is just the ages of those who made it publicly available, so the real distribution might be different. I don't know why there are these weird peaks that dwarf everything else.

Now you know how old ASR's users are!
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Younger people don’t care about this stuff!
 
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