Oh No !!!! (they all said).

It's obvious from the amount of discussion on the "getting on" topic
that some PICListers don't have enough to do in life :-).

You will have to judge for yourselves whether I fall into that
category :-).
(I swear I have no spare time at all but ... )

Here is a rough analysis of the ages of PICLISTers based on the
responses posted.
There may be a few duplicates due to the occasional receipt of
duplicate entries and other slips-twixt-cup-and-lip. I have
eliminated these where they were noticed.

All results are base 10 (decimal) unless otherwise stated.
Responses were received in base

    2                  many
    3 (ternary)        1
    5 (lustrum)        1
    8 (octal)          1
    10
    13 (hitchhikers guide base)
        Used by the recipient of the Arthur Dent award :-)
    16                 many

Sample Size        59
Youngest           16 (Glenn Jones)
Oldest             71 (Bill Colville)
Mean               38 years
Median             36
1st,3rd quartiles  28, 48
Mode               35 years (closely followed by 48 years)

I thought about windowing with a raised cosine but got tired about
here. If I had done so the peak at 48/49 years would probably have
been the major peak.

Raw data:

1 of each sample unless followed by /x where x = number of samples.

16, 18.2, 19/2, 22/2, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28/4, 29, 30, 32/2, 33, 34/3,
35/6, 36, 37, 39/4, 40/2, 42/3, 44, 45, 47, 48/5, 49/4, 50, 52, 58,
61, 62, 63, 71

If this was a gallup (etc) pole the margin of error for any questions
asked would be around 13% so the sample is small enough to be only a
rough guide.

Calculation of the standard deviation is left as an exercise for the
student (this must mean you, Glenn :-)).


regards


            Russell McMahon