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I was just wondering what the age breakdown is for dakka users so ran a quick report. Attached is an approximate breakdown of the dakka age range. If you are 23, then congratulations you are Mr (or Mrs) Average. As you can see we have a lot of older users and a lot less teens than you might expect (though they certainly tend to be quite vocal). Funny to see we have a few people age 11 and under because dakkadakka.com is older than they are!

lol, holy smokes. Didn't know their was thaaaat wide of a range of ages.

59 DUDE!

Wait ...

Most websites have a minimum 13 age, I always thought it was for legal reasons.

We got minors here?

I guess we gotta hide the bewbz.

Haha
you're right...
I'm 16 and i'm pretty vocallllll!!!!!!!!

The really young lot are probably all just FBI agents on to the secret DCM child abduction forum.

@Lego: Just don't plan to meet any of them in meatspace...

"HI! I'm Chris Hansen..."

lol. Instead of being vocall wouldn't it technically be something else? Couldn't it exactly call it typall could ya

Where are you getting the data from Lego? I don't think "older than dirt" has a defined age.

Actually I didnt notice it at first, but you can clearly see the 'hobby dip' in the graph in which people turn 18 and many give up the hobby to chase the opposite sex and go partying. The tyranny of further education and work seems to bring many people back though

Frazzled wrote:Where are you getting the data from Lego? I don't think "older than dirt" has a defined age.

The voluntary date of birth field on the member profile page. We could have even more old users than indicated as many might not want to share their D.O.B. with the site even for these interesting statistical purposes. Likewise people could just be outright lying, though there is no real reason to do so and there are some traps in place to detect it so it shouldnt be too many (apart from the guy who claims to have been born in 07AD - he got left out).

My bewbs are well covered.

w00t--I'm Mr. Average!!

malfred wrote:My bewbs are well covered.

One of these is hooked up and primed for the day that that is no longer the case:

Lego you are so right about the age dynamic. I stopped playing due to uni/social life then work took over. Only now when all my friends are getting married I find myself regressing to good old 40k!

I didn't start wargaming until I was 30, because I wasted so much of my life partying and pursuing dubious adventures. Now I just sit around waiting for primer or washes to dry. Wooohooo...

Is this what you really do all day Lego?

JohnHwangDD wrote:@Lego: Just don't plan to meet any of them in meatspace...

"HI! I'm Chris Hansen..."

That's funny! I can see it on dateline: To catch a gamer.
"Hi I'm Chris Hansen. So, what were you planning on doing here today? If we check your car, will we find little plastic men? And dice?"

59?

Must be H.B.M.C., considering he's usually more grumpy than Clint Eastwood on a good day

older than dirt

Dirt has a life cycle of 32 years. If your over 32, you're older than dirt.

AHH! I'm a statistic! (24)

Can we get some totals and standard deviation?

Where is 12 come younger the better!!!!!!!!!!

I started 40k when I was 19 (it was also when it started).

I gave it up for a few years from 1994 to 1996 (no time to play - work and social life and stuff).

I'm one of the "older than dirt" members. Also a card-carrying "grmpy old man" (my wife agrees with me on this."
[insert "Damn kids"-shakes walking stick-"Git offa my lawn!" here.]

i'm right there with ya chrome. these kids today...
there was nothing quite as much fun as having defense laser armed dreadnoughts blowing up my friends skeleton manned catapults just before landing my teleporting terminators on top of his baneblade so that i could detonate my thunderhammers and kamikaze it.... ah the gold old days.

Ratbarf wrote:

older than dirt

Dirt has a life cycle of 32 years. If your over 32, you're older than dirt.

I knew I was not that old.

I didn't think that people my age (15) were such a (relatively) big percentage of the population here. I certainly won't suffer from the '18 dip period', because I wouldn't have much luck with socialising anyway.

Whilst the mode is obviously 23...

What is the mean and the median?

I'd wager they are quite a few years higher than 23.
Up around 27 or so from a quick look.

I am not a number!

Woot average!

chromedog wrote:
I'm one of the "older than dirt" members. Also a card-carrying "grmpy old man" (my wife agrees with me on this."
[insert "Damn kids"-shakes walking stick-"Git offa my lawn!" here.]

Ha!

The Patrick Nagel Avatar already told us all of that!