Average Age of an AARoads Forum user.

[TMETSJETSYT]

Hi, I am here just to do a quick experiment. Id like the see the average age of an AARoads forum user. I am pretty young, at 13 years old. What bout you guys? Answer down below. 

[Mapmikey]

Suggestion:  Open any thread on this forum with some length - some posters have their age shown.  Likely enough do to be a representative distribution of ages.

[JayhawkCO]

My guess is the average is 44.

[SectorZ]

My guess is the average is 44.

I guess that makes me about average as possible then.

[MATraveler128]

I am one of the younger users on the forum as I am 20 and still in college. But I would say 40s is about accurate.

[US 89]

I am one of the younger users on the forum as I am 20 and still in college. But I would say 40s is about accurate.

I'd think a bit younger.

[SkyPesos]

I'll guess somewhere between 35-40.

[TMETSJETSYT]

Suggestion:  Open any thread on this forum with some length - some posters have their age shown.  Likely enough do to be a representative distribution of ages.

Thanks for the suggestion man.

[hotdogPi]

I actually think it's significantly less, maybe 27.

[JayhawkCO]

I actually think it's significantly less, maybe 27.

If you do it post by post maybe it skews that young. 

[jp the roadgeek]

There may be a few outliers in the ages posted.  Some people put their DOB as some time in the 22nd century, so they'll appear with a negative age.   

[ran4sh]

I actually think it's significantly less, maybe 27.

If you do it post by post maybe it skews that young. 

This might actually be true, with younger users posting about topics that older users had already answered before this forum existed (e.g. on MTR, etc)

[CtrlAltDel]

My guess is the average is 44.

I guess that makes me about average as possible then.

Me too, starting today at least.

[Scott5114]

If I had SQL access like Alex and rickmastfan do, I could write a script that would offer a definitive answer to this.

I probably wouldn't, because I'm both lazy and have other things I should be doing instead, but I could do it.

[kalvado]

make a poll with couple of 5-year age brackets. Below 10 and above 80 can be safely omitted.

[thspfc]

I actually think it's significantly less, maybe 27.

If you do it post by post maybe it skews that young. 

Thankfully tolbs17 was banned before he could reach having 50% of the forum's posts.

[webny99]

It would be easy enough to run through the top-100 or so users and take an average... if I find the time...

[froggie]

It would be easy enough to run through the top-100 or so users and take an average... if I find the time...

Not necessarily.  A quick look at the 21 users who have 10K+ posts shows that 5 of them (myself included) do not list their age.  5 others just in this thread alone also do not list their age (although the OP did mention his).  So you may well have some skew regardless of how you look at it.

[gonealookin]

I'm a fair bit older than the number shown on my mixup-shield avatar.  Think I've mentioned here that the NPS "America the Beautiful" lifetime pass is only a few months away...

[Mr. Matté]

I'm assuming over 18 because Chris Hansen hasn't shown up at any of our roadmeets.

[cjk374]

I refuse to age. I'm gonna live forever. 

[CNGL-Leudimin]

The age I show is my legal age, which differs from my real age because I had to cancel my birthday once .

[TMETSJETSYT]

I refuse to age. I'm gonna live forever. 

Yeah I wish

[vdeane]

The age I show is my legal age, which differs from my real age because I had to cancel my birthday once .

I've never heard of separate legal/real ages before... 

[SkyPesos]

The age I show is my legal age, which differs from my real age because I had to cancel my birthday once .

I've never heard of separate legal/real ages before... 

In some East Asian cultures, you start off as 1 year old at birth instead of 0, so your "real age" is 1 higher than what it legally is. I'm not sure if Spanish culture have something similar.