Age of BoB members

[peter cornbriar]

I surmise, that the average age of any given BoB member is early fifties. How far off am I?

 

[Idlefellow]

I surmise, that the average age of any given BoB member is early fifties. How far off am I?

Way.

 

[Aussiemike]

55 but body feels 80 and mind feels like im still 30

 

[Gaius Marius]

If I'm not mistaken, I'm the second youngest user on the forum at the age of 30.
I think that Bill (w/eoPd) is just a little younger.

 

[fireman11]

63 but emotionally I'm about 12.

 

[Eutychus]

That might be difficult to determine. But I'll own up to 68.

 

[Ranger107]

Peter, you keeping the tally? Put me down for 76.

 

[MLBbreton]

66 here and just started to smoke a pipe.

 

[thedeep]

I''m a year older than Ranger at77.

 

[Joshamee Gibbs]

Old enough to have administrative rights in the Grumpy Old Man's Club down at the local pub...

 

[mosin1932]

I don't usually buy into all this astrology stuff, but what the heck.

I'm 32... and based on your post my profile picture isn't doing me any favors lol!

 

[Balisong]

I turned 68 this month. With the data so far the average age is 59 1/2. The average is skewed by our two youngest reporting members.

 

[ftrplt]

78! 60 year pipe smoker! FTRPLT

 

[D.L.Ruth]

Nice, feels good to be one of the "younger" guys for a change at 43

 

[ralphmcculley]

I'm 50, I started smoking a pipe at 35ish.

 

[mosin1932]

We're at a mean average of 58.83 for everybody.

But if you wanted to be a bully like @Balisong and exclude Gaius and myself as outliers, the average jumps up to 64.4. That 9.8% comes at the price of omitting over 16% of the data, and could lead to retaliation like the outliers excluding your data and calculating their own average... For example...

Without omitting any data, the median will give us a more accurate average than the mean would in this situation.

30 32 43 50 55 63 66 68 68 76 77 78

So the average age is 64.5, so far!

 

[Balisong]

55+30+63+68+76+66+77+32+68+78+43+50 average just shy of 59. It is common practice to exclude data points of outliers which would increase the average age in this data set.

 

[mosin1932]

55+30+63+68+76+66+77+32+68+78+43+50 average just shy of 59. It is common practice to exclude data points of outliers which would increase the average age in this data set.

I apologize if my reply came across at all snarky Balisong! I made some typing errors, like skipping quite a few words words I thought I had wrote, and I've since realized I shouldn't do math while trying to write at the same time lol.

 

[fireman11]

I apologize if my reply came across at all snarky Balisong! I made some typing errors, like skipping quite a few words words I thought I had wrote, and I've since realized I shouldn't do math while trying to write at the same time lol.

I like your method better. For once I'm above average!!

Of course in this case, it's not really a good thing.

 

[Eutychus]

We're at a mean average of 58.83 for everybody.

But if you wanted to be a bully like @Balisong and exclude Gaius and myself as outliers, the average jumps up to 64.4. That 9.8% comes at the price of omitting over 16% of the data, and could lead to retaliation like the outliers excluding your data and calculating their own average... For example...

Without omitting any data, the median will give us a more accurate average than the mean would in this situation.

30 32 43 50 55 63 66 68 68 76 77 78

So the average age is 64.5, so far!

55+30+63+68+76+66+77+32+68+78+43+50 average just shy of 59. It is common practice to exclude data points of outliers which would increase the average age in this data set.

I don't want to be pedantic, but the median is not is not the average--the mean is. But including the median is a good idea, since the distribution is asymmetric. And the "outliers" need to be included, unless all you want is the average age of the old members.