New, Improved Age Poll!

[Rob-F]

This poll is designed to make room for very youngest RFF members, as well as us borderline superannuated types. If you are in one of the youngest groups, get mom or dad to help, if you need to, and tell us about your photo interests!

 

[predicolous]

Why not have the poll with decade of birth rather than age? That way it will stay up to date...

just citing this from the poll created yesterday 😀

i had hoped that an improved poll might take this into account

 

[jarski]

just citing this from the poll created yesterday 😀

i had hoped that an improved poll might take this into account

I'm awaiting third poll 😀

 

[raid]

just citing this from the poll created yesterday 😀

i had hoped that an improved poll might take this into account

The "data" would be misleading. Someone born in 1970 today is of a certain age, but if someone 10 years later also clicks on 1970 as birth year, then that person is 10 years older than the previous person. How would you distinguish between them?

 

[BillBingham2]

The "data" would be misleading. Someone born in 1970 today is of a certain age, but if someone 10 years later also clicks on 1970 as birth year, then that person is 10 years older than the previous person. How would you distinguish between them?

An AARP Card?

B2 (;->

 

[rbiemer]

just citing this from the poll created yesterday 😀

i had hoped that an improved poll might take this into account

Well, I was born at the very beginning of my first decade...I'm only guessing but I'm pretty sure that most of us were. 🙂

Rob

 

[dmr]

LOL, (in reference to the gender poll) you mean there's no option for "other", "not sure", "none of your business", "why does it matter" etc. 🙂 🙂 🙂

 

[retinax]

The "data" would be misleading. Someone born in 1970 today is of a certain age, but if someone 10 years later also clicks on 1970 as birth year, then that person is 10 years older than the previous person. How would you distinguish between them?

You're mistaken, that's what happens when people give their ages. If two persons who are 41 today take the poll ten years apart, they'll register in different cohorts even though they're the same age. Year of birth doesn't change and delivers the correct age no matter when data is collected or age is calculated.
Doesn't matter though because the poll should be closed after short time anyway. It would be better to have a snapshot of the age structure at one point than something distorted by new members coming in or made obsolete by members leaving during the poll.

 

[Sumarongi]

You're mistaken,

Errrm, I guess you were misunderstanding what Raid was insinuating; btw: Raid is a well known statistics professor 😉

that's what happens when people give their ages. If two persons who are 41 today take the poll ten years apart, they'll register in different cohorts even though they're the same age. Year of birth doesn't change and delivers the correct age no matter when data is collected or age is calculated.
Doesn't matter though because the poll should be closed after short time anyway. It would be better to have a snapshot of the age structure at one point than something distorted by new members coming in or made obsolete by members leaving during the poll.

-- I suppose quite that was what Raid was insinuating 😉

 

[retinax]

Errrm, I guess you were misunderstanding what Raid was insinuating; btw: Raid is a well known statistics professor 😉

-- I suppose quite that was what Raid was insinuating 😉

I suppose I must have misunderstood him then. The best of their fields have brain farts like the rest of us; my apologies, Raid, is this wasn't one 😛

 

[predicolous]

I'm awaiting third poll 😀

I'll make a 4th then 😉

 

[froyd]

Here we go, guaranteed to offend everyone:

1) too young to know better, too arrogant to know it
2) balding but still wearing skinny pants
3) can't handhold 1/8 anymore
4) too old to care
5) Depends dependent

 

[Jake Mongey]

Im probably on the younger side here, studying photography in london.

I shoot a bit of everything: Landscape, Fashion, Portrait and more recently for Uni am following a band around the country and documenting their travels. Using a Nikon F2 and Hasselblad 500cm.

I also have a great deal of struggle taking a shower as my tiny bathroom is occupied by a JOBO and a dryer which has to be removed whenever I want to use my mini darkroom for things like washing myself

 

[randy stewart]

Aging Out

Aging Out

While I suspect that the median age of the members of this group is biased in favor of a much older group that a true cross-section of photographers, particularly film users, I am sad to see the near non-existent population of the age group prior to middle age. I wonder if this is the sign of future times for camera-based non-commercial photography.

 

[gb hill]

This didn’t help me one bit I’m still the same age as the other poll. 😀

 

[Rob-F]

You're mistaken, that's what happens when people give their ages. If two persons who are 41 today take the poll ten years apart, they'll register in different cohorts even though they're the same age. Year of birth doesn't change and delivers the correct age no matter when data is collected or age is calculated.
Doesn't matter though because the poll should be closed after short time anyway. It would be better to have a snapshot of the age structure at one point than something distorted by new members coming in or made obsolete by members leaving during the poll.

Exactly! That's why I closed the poll after 100 days. That's enough time to get a representative sample, without distorting the data.

 

[farlymac]

Okay, here is the big problem with any of these polls: the information is voluntarily submitted. You will never get everyone to take the poll no matter what you try. It's better to glean the statistic you want from the Member Registry files, that is if the birthday stat is correct.

As I recall, there was a major overhaul of the database some years ago, and the Calendar no longer reflects the birth dates of all the members, only those who had registered before the overhaul.

PF

 

[maigo]

New, Improved Age Poll!

99pc of time I use Tapatalk app. 1pc of time I use web for browsing RFF classifieds or posting an occasional image with Flickr BBcode.
Tapatalk does not support any of the RFF polls - they do not appear at all.
My demographic will be missed with web polls.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[robert blu]

70 now, sometimes I feel 18 🙂 sometimes I feel 99 🙁

robert

 

[Rob-F]

Okay, here is the big problem with any of these polls: the information is voluntarily submitted. You will never get everyone to take the poll no matter what you try. It's better to glean the statistic you want from the Member Registry files, that is if the birthday stat is correct.

As I recall, there was a major overhaul of the database some years ago, and the Calendar no longer reflects the birth dates of all the members, only those who had registered before the overhaul.

PF

Yes, an issue with any statistical effort is whether you have a representative sample. In this case, the question would be whether the age distribution of subjects who bother to take the poll, is representative of the forum membership. If it isn't, that would bias the sample. However, unless there is some reason to think people in different age groups would be more or less inclined to respond--and I don't think there is--then the sample is representative. And so far, it looks like it is shaping up to be distribution that appears reasonably normal, which is a good sign that things are OK. Besides, what else can I do with all that statistical training they give you in psychology grad school? 😱