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My, aren't we a little archaic...

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Some statistics on the age of our staff members: [I can only assume their birthdates in their profile is accurate. Ichi has been excluded for obviously being much older than 3, while CTM, DeltaSuicune, Ferret, Murgatroyd, and Woopert have opted not to provided their ages...]

Participants in the survey: ANinyMouse, Archaic, Argy, Arnold, Belldandy, Blackjack Gabbiani, Damian Silverblade, Dogasu, enchantress, evkl, Geodude, JKaizer, Jshadias, Kasumi-san, Ketsuban, Kinglerlord2, Ledian_X, Little_Pikachu, MistyIRC, MistyRocks, Mozz, nYoo, Pacific Pikachu, PlatinumHawke, Purple Kecleon, Revolutionary Girl, tyger, Voldarin, Zak, Zeta, Zhen Lin, ZoraJolteon [total: 33]

Mean age: 21.34 years (20.12 excluding the top 4, who were born before 1980)
Median age: 20.73 years [Archaic] (20.48 years [tyger] excluding the top 4)
Modal age (rounded down): 5× 16-year olds [followed by 4× 20-year olds]

Modal birth weekday: 9× Thursday [followed by 6× Wednesday, 6× Friday]

Modal birth month: 6× October [followed by 4× February, 4× November]

Median birth year: 1984 (1985 excluding the top 4)
Modal birth year: 4× 1989 (15 ~ 16 y.o.), 4× 1987 (17 ~ 18 y.o.) , 4× 1984 (20 ~ 21 y.o.), 4× 1982 (22 ~ 23 y.o.)

Gaa, what are you people doing? The last time I conducted this survey, I didn't have so many age-peers...

Also, quite by coincidence, happy 18th birthday, Argy.

Other interesting facts:
* MistyIRC and MistyRocks are just over a month apart in age and have 7 letters common in their usernames...
* Staff born in April were also born on a Saturday. [But then again, 2 is a bad sample size.]
* Ketsuban and tyger have the misfortune of sharing their birthday with the infamous Tommy february6. [They are also the only two to share their birthday on the staff]
* 8 are minors [< 18].
* 12 are adults by most measures [> 21].

Sorted by seniority [age, of course, not power]:
1969:
Barb

1974:
Kasumi-san

1978:
Revolutionary Girl
Ledian_X

1980:
Blackjack Gabbiani
Voldarin

1981:
Geodude
Damian Silverblade

1982:
Little_Pikachu
Mozz
Kinglerlord2
Dogasu

1983:
enchantress

1984:
Zeta
PlatinumHawke
Arnold
Archaic

1985:
Belldandy
tyger
ANinyMouse

1986:
MistyRocks
MistyIRC

1987:
Ketsuban
Argy
nYoo
Zak

1988:
Pacific Pikachu
Jshadias
JKaizer

1989:
evkl
PurpleKecleon
ZoraJolteon
Zhen Lin
 
Ah, a coincidence. I was wondering about the timing of this... Anyway, thank you. This thread actually makes me feel quite young (although not as young as you must feel).

Now, I would be interested in seeing a survey of the locations of the staff. Some more digging might be necessary, though, as a lot of people don't put their real locations in their profiles...
 
If I had been born on time then this might be a little different. *was supposed to be born in 84 and would have had the same birthday as LX* :p

Argy said:
Now, I would be interested in seeing a survey of the locations of the staff. Some more digging might be necessary, though, as a lot of people don't put their real locations in their profiles...
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Except one of the staff is a military brat and moves quite a bit. I've already moved once while being a member here and I'm moving again by next July at the latest. :p
 
Wouldn't the location one be mainly American and some dotted across the globe? Dunno how much it would be interesting..
 
Wow... for some reason I'd always thought Zhen and Evan were older than me. :O


~Zak
 
I always felt Belldandy was older than me. But actually she's a year younger.
 
Wow, this actually made me feel kinda... young for once. >>;

This is the first Pokemon forum I've seen where the youngest mods are 15 o_O
 
Impossible. What about the ones run by 12-year-olds? Ah, but they've grown up, most of them...
 
o_O That's the thing, most of them I've seen have at least one under 15. :p
 
Oh, you're commenting on the high lower boundary... Which was the point of this thread, really.
 
Murgatroyd is a few months younger than me. Hope he doesn't mind my saying so.
 
Well, the last time we solicited an age out of him, it was in December 2004, and he was 23 then.
 
Pinning down timezone for staff is simple enough - it's all in the profile information, and I can't imagine any reason why it wouldn't be accurate.
 
Location survey in progress...

I need to recheck the data, but the preliminary results:

40 participants: ANinyMouse, Archaic, Argy, Arnold, Barb, Belldandy, Blackjack Gabbiani, Coronis, CTM, Damian Silverblade, DeltaSuicune, Dogasu, enchantress, evkl, Ferret, Geodude, JKaizer, Jshadias, Kasumi-san, Ketsuban, Kinglerlord2, Ledian_X, Little_Pikachu, Loki, MistyIRC, MistyRocks, Mozz, Murgatroyd, nYoo, Pacific Pikachu, PlatinumHawke, Purple Kecleon, Revolutionary Girl, tyger, Voldarin, Woopert, Zak, Zeta, Zhen Lin, ZoraJolteon

* 13 Eastern Time [UTC-5] (1 without DST), 7 UTC (1 without DST), 5 Pacific Time, 4 Central Time, 2 with suspect data.
* 37 northern hemisphere [including marginal cases, such as Costa Rica and Malaysia]
* 27 North Americans [no surprise; including Costa Rica], 8 Europeans [including marginal cases, such as Iceland and UK; otherwise, only 1 European: nYoo], 3 Australians [all East Australia] and 2 Asians [all Southeast Asia]
* 22 Americans [duh], 5 British, 4 Canadians, 3 Australians, and 1 each of: Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, and Malaysia.
* No more than 2 members of staff in each state: 2 Queensland [both Brisbane], 2 Oregon [both Portland?], 2 Texas.
 
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