How old are ASR's users?

[pseudoid]

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)

Someone probably would have accused ASR of stereotyping members, and why not?

 

[Descartes]

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?

View attachment 384996
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!

Younger people don’t care about this stuff!

 

[bachatero]

Younger people don’t care about this stuff!

Speak for yourself, I did a bunch of stuff almost identical to this for a college "numerical computing" class last semester

 

[Galliardist]

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.

Well... I wish I'd thought of using Taylor Swift's birthday as well

 

[Galliardist]

It may have been better to provide check-boxes for member age-demographics, instead of asking for a specific date-of-birth:

Someone probably would have accused ASR of stereotyping members, and why not?

I'll admit my age willingly... but tick a box to say I'm a boomer, never

 

[Keith_W]

Looks like ASR's cohort is slowly getting younger, but it's only a slight trend.

Sadly, it's the demographic that's getting younger. Not me

 

[Lux_ury]

Are we talking about my Google birthday or MSN messenger Dob? Oh wait my connection to free WiFi has many birthdays?

 

[ElJaimito]

Having spent many years cleaning up IT security issues, there's no way I'd put my actual birthdate on a public website. Why make things easier for the crooks? Decade, yes, maybe. I doubt I am alone in this precaution.

 

[pseudoid]

there's no way I'd put my actual birthdate on a public website.

So, El,
Please do tell me that Jaimito is NOT your last name, to make me believe you.

 

[rank]

Born in 1950.
Studied law, ancient and contemporary history (some notions in medieval and modern), geography, especially human, and statistics. 3 children, Lutheran, living in a common-law relationship.

 

[RayDunzl]

More important to me than "How old am I ?" is "How old do I feel ?".

 

[ElJaimito]

So, El,
Please do tell me that Jaimito is NOT your last name, to make me believe you.

Hah, you got me. Mr Jaimito is mi, after all. Though people do call me El, as in "What the 'El have you done now?!"

I will admit to 73.

 

[Mnyb]

More important to me than "How old am I ?" is "How old do I feel ?".

As a guy it can be 25y one day and 634y another day I'm usually 25 until the girls laugh at me ( not with me ) .

You notice that your old if you talk to girls at a bar and they look like like a baby that just ingested a mouthfull of dirt

 

[dzerig]

So the end of the histogram is how quickly I'll lose interest in audio? Uh oh.