Gamer Age - What year were you born?

[hafrogman]

1974 here as well.

Very odd... what is it about 1974?

Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by the Gygax-owned company Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR).

Fate.

So . . .

If they were all born in 1974, they were conceived in early '74 or 73 . . . Thus, birthrates dropped sharply in 1975 due to the fact that people weren't getting any in 1974? Hmmm. . . before that, people couldn't tell if you were a nerd?

 

[Evilusion]

Ok I voted and now I feel old. Born in 1966 been playing since I was 11 years old. So most of you are young whippersnappers to me.

Evilusion

 

[Stormtower]

Born the same year as D&D... 1974.

Hmmm. I just looked at the poll's results thus far and 1974 is the most common birth year for ENWorlders. Freaky.

 

[KarinsDad]

Yeah, but that's a lousy definition of "some interest." Plus, it doesn't make any effort to correllate interest in 4e to age or compare it to some other set---say people with some interest in basket weaving, so what's the point of the survey?

It's only a lousy definition to you. I'm totally fine with it.

But, feel free to illustrate that people who go to web sites often have no interest in the information on the sites they visit.

No. It's not better to do that. Why do you think that none of the surveys you ever get sent ask you how old you are? They ask you to chunk yourself out. 18-35 or whatever. Not, "I was born in 1974." It's easier to make sense of that kind of data, whereas having the detail for every single year isn't helpful or useful.

It's easier for YOU to make sense of that type of data. I am totally fine with picking whatever date ranges I want out of this information. 31 to 35 year olds. No problem.

This data gives the same information, just in a different format and not yet combined into groups. It allows people to see the actual data curve and it allows them to analyze that data in whatever manner they see fit.

You don't like it, fine. But, your argument as to why it is not useful is fallicious. It doesn't matter how other polls are made. How other polls are made does not invalidate the data within this poll.

Plus, I can draw my own correllations? Based on what? With what do I correllate it? Your survey doesn't give me anything to work on.

Sorry. I cannot help you to think and I won't do your thinking for you.

There are many ways to analyze this data.

The only thing I can do is try to find some other set of average age and compare the two surveys.

So far, it looks like this survey is exactly in line with the ENWorlder age in general, so again; this poll doesn't actually accomplish anything because of the way it's structured.

And structuring it the way HP did gives less information and distorts the data.

This is also another fallacy. You have yet to illustrate that this data is "exactly in line with the ENWorlder age in general". Stating it without backing it up doesn't do anything. It might be a similar data curve, but you haven't even yet illustrated that.

For example, comparing it to the Year of Birth poll on the General forum from several years ago would at least be a start on supporting your claim here. Course, that might just illustrate that a large subset of a given superset often has similar distribution properties of the superset. That is the basis of probability theory after all.


Basically, it appears that you are arguing just to argue.

 

[KarinsDad]

Prelinary comparison to the previous Year of Birth poll on the General Forum indicates that the overall age with interest in 4E is somewhat younger than the general age here at ENWorld:

                This poll               Earlier poll
2000	2	0.44%	0.440%	1	0.12%	0.120%
or later
1999	0	0%	0.440%	1	0.12%	0.240%
1998	0	0%	0.440%	0	0%	0.240%
1997	0	0%	0.440%	0	0%	0.240%
1996	0	0%	0.440%	1	0.12%	0.360%
1995	2	0.44%	0.880%	0	0%	0.360%
1994	0	0%	0.880%	0	0%	0.360%
1993	0	0%	0.880%	0	0%	0.360%
1992	1	0.22%	1.100%	2	0.23%	0.590%
1991	0	0%	1.100%	0	0%	0.590%
1990	1	0.22%	1.320%	1	0.12%	0.710%
1989	1	0.22%	1.540%	6	0.70%	1.410%
1988	4	0.88%	2.420%	9	1.04%	2.450%
1987	3	0.66%	3.080%	10	1.16%	3.610%
1986	7	1.54%	4.620%	13	1.51%	5.120%
1985	10	2.19%	6.810%	20	2.32%	7.440%
1984	16	3.51%	10.320%	18	2.09%	9.530%
1983	16	3.51%	13.830%	19	2.20%	11.730%
1982	17	3.73%	17.560%	20	2.32%	14.050%
1981	17	3.73%	21.290%	25	2.90%	16.950%
1980	23	5.04%	26.330%	19	2.20%	19.150%
1979	13	2.85%	29.180%	21	2.44%	21.590%
1978	13	2.85%	32.030%	24	2.78%	24.370%
1977	24	5.26%	37.290%	24	2.78%	27.150%
1976	24	5.26%	42.550%	52	6.03%	33.180%
1975	19	4.17%	46.720%	40	4.64%	37.820%
1974	30	6.58%	53.300%	98	11.37%	49.190%
1973	27	5.92%	59.220%	63	7.31%	56.500%
1972	26	5.70%	64.920%	57	6.61%	63.110%
1971	24	5.26%	70.180%	56	6.50%	69.610%
1970	23	5.04%	75.220%	47	5.45%	75.060%
1969	19	4.17%	79.390%	48	5.57%	80.630%
1968	14	3.07%	82.460%	34	3.94%	84.570%
1967	19	4.17%	86.630%	32	3.71%	88.280%
1966	17	3.73%	90.360%	16	1.86%	90.140%
1965	11	2.41%	92.770%	17	1.97%	92.110%
1964	4	0.88%	93.650%	14	1.62%	93.730%
1963	2	0.44%	94.090%	9	1.04%	94.770%
1962	7	1.54%	95.630%	12	1.39%	96.160%
1961	5	1.10%	96.730%	2	0.23%	96.390%
1960	2	0.44%	97.170%	11	1.28%	97.670%
1959	2	0.44%	97.610%	5	0.58%	98.250%
1958	1	0.22%	97.830%	2	0.23%	98.480%
1957	3	0.66%	98.490%	3	0.35%	98.830%
1956	2	0.44%	98.930%	3	0.35%	99.180%
1955	1	0.22%	99.150%	1	0.12%	99.300%
1954	1	0.22%	99.370%	0	0%	99.300%
1953	0	0%	99.370%	1	0.12%	99.420%
1952	0	0%	99.370%	2	0.23%	99.650%
1951	1	0.22%	99.590%	0	0%	99.650%
1950	0	0%	99.590%	0	0%	99.650%
1949	0	0%	99.590%	0	0%	99.650%
1948	1	0.22%	99.810%	1	0.12%	99.770%
1947	0	0%	99.810%	0	0%	99.770%
1946	0	0%	99.810%	0	0%	99.770%
1945	0	0%	99.810%	1	0.12%	99.890%
1944	0	0%	99.810%	0	0%	99.890%
1943	0	0%	99.810%	0	0%	99.890%
1942	0	0%	99.810%	0	0%	99.890%
1941	1	0.22%	100.00%	1	0.12%	100.00%
or earlier

The spike in 1974 is also not as pronounced.

 

[Desdichado]

So... it meets your needs and you're dismissive of methods that people who do this for a living have developed.

Well, if the results mean something to you, then knock yerself out.

 

[KarinsDad]

So... it meets your needs and you're dismissive of methods that people who do this for a living have developed.

Well, if the results mean something to you, then knock yerself out.

HAHAHA

Whatever dude!

If you want something different, make up your own poll.

 

[AFGNCAAP]

Another `74er here.

I've often mentioned to gamers that I'm as old as D&D itself (well, technically a few months younger, but still...).

 

[Delta]

I'll also just say I'm not interested in 4E; I came to the poll from the front page, and came back to check out results. I voted 1970, you can back that out if it's important.

I will point out that the average result of both polls is basically the same. After trimming off first & last categories (so as to deal with specific numbers), we have:
First poll -- Mean 1973.58 (standard devation 6.85)
This poll -- Mean 1974.18 (standard deviation 7.19)

Obviously, rounded off both averages are 1974 (so currently average age 33).

 

[HRG]

'74 here as well.

One of us...