Are 55% of those who DU over 40? (link to earlier poll)

[expatriot]

This post is mainly for those who rarely venture into the lounge....

Early this afternoon (AZ time) before I went to work, I posted a poll asking for all DUers to check in and vote as to what age group they were in. When I first checked back into DU about an hour ago, there were 245 respondents and now there are 260. According to respondents, 55% of you are older than 40. A full 50% is between the ages of 40-59.

The constant responses have kept this poll kicked in the Lounge forum but I wanted to post a thread elsewhere so as to let non-lounge lizards know of this highly scientific endeavor.... so please vote if you haven't...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3368734&mesg_id=3368734

[seriousstan]

1. By asking the question in an anonymous and voluntary forum

you have already invalidated the results. There is nothing scientific about it and the results are moot.

[expatriot]

3. I was being sarcastic... like all online polls, it is trivial

but with the good faith of all DUers, even with the good faith of trolls, some insights can be gained.

[hfojvt]

4. plus you only have 260 non-random answers

out of tens of thousands of registered users, but count me in the over forty crowd.

[expatriot]

5. see post #3 nt

[expatriot]

2. Ikes!!!! Boomers go to bed!!!!!

Since posting this in GD... the over 40 crowd has grown to 56% with those between 40-59 at 51%

[hfojvt]

6. I prefer to think of myself

as one of the older members of Generation X, rather than as one of the youngest members of the BBG. I am sick of hearing about the baby boom. There are more Xers than there are boomers, and some Xers are now over 40. And Ike was way before our time, although I kinda like Ike. I just visited his Presidential Library a couple weeks ago.

[expatriot]

7. Isn't there a term "tweener" or something?

I know, I am so stuck in the past.... and of course all generational labeling is very arbitrary.... By brother is getting close to 40 and he is a definite Xer

I am 28, on the very young end of Generation X... the latter tail of a generation grows up in the shadows of the cultural myths that the vangarud of that generation made. This could not be better explained than when my brother, 9.5 years my senior and I went together to see Reality Bites. I was 16 or 17 when it came out and he was finishing grad school. I came out of the theater dazed. But he, he was so cynical of it... His dislike of it was foreign to me then... but now I understand it... he took it as a bad parody and I took it as a defining generational testament. To him, he had lived the Xer defining moment and now that it was being mass-produced, it was already over... to me I was blind to the fact that whatever it was, it had already passed and had been packaged. Like someone racing to San Francisco to live with Kerouac and Company in 1957, in denial to the fact that the events printed had taken place almost a decade previous. I ramble....

[hfojvt]

8. Is that movie really only 12 years old?

I must have rented it 6 years ago when I was 37, and I liked it.
Then again, why not sell your soul to advertise pizza? There are worse things to shill for. I'd love to have Queen Latifah's job.

Since I am from the western midwest, I am sure I was raised as a boomer, because the 60s did not get to us until the 70s.

[expatriot]

16. came out in 1994

[Awsi Dooger]

9. Among 70,000 users it's got to be close to the typical average age

What is the average and median ages of the world population, anyway? I'm guessing in the low to mid 30s, maybe 34.

Internet users would certainly be lower than average age, but on a political site that's offset by political awareness and interest increasing with age. I would guess the typical DUer would fall a year or two above the average age of the population in general, but I don't have any numbers to back that up.

[expatriot]

13. not true, many other factors play in...

such as political interest level, internet access, etc.


Plus, that is 70,000 registered logins since 2001... by no means are there aven close to 70,000 active users currently.

[expatriate]

10. I just checked, I seem to be 45

so put me into the "over 40" crowd.

I have never felt like a Baby Boomer either, though I am officially considered to be part of that group, as I was born in 1959 - but I have no memory of Eisenhower, never saw the Mouseketeer Club, didn't wear a coonskin cap and know all the verses to Davy Crockett. Also didn't get too into the pop stuff in the 1960's, being too young.

Probably more of a Gen Xer than a Boomer.

Naming generations just doesn't really make sense - just one more way to generalize.

[ebayfool]

11. No way I'm clicking that thread - I'm on dial up! log me in at 51 ...

what's my prize? LOL :evilgrin:

[expatriot]

12. AM kick

[AnnInLa]

14. How about an "Oldster's Lounge?"

I would love a lounge here on DU were the oldsters can meet and discuss things from the "wisdom of our years/experience." If you get enough responses that many DUers tend to be on that end of the age scale, maybe someone can set it up?? Of course, oldsters can be over 40, or over 50...what do yall think? How about a "Sexy Senior Citizen Club?"

I almost never visit the lounge here on DU because the posters seem (I may be wrong) alot younger than I am...so maybe a hang-out for we old-hippy-types?

[expatriot]

15. sounds like a good idea.

nt