Median age of TechStars Boston 2010 cohort is 34

Min: 21 Avg: 28.3 Median: 34

21 21 21 22 22 23 34 34 34 34 34 34 34

When you consider that there are about 26 people selected (ten teams times three people each, or about 30), we can simply double the above:

21 21 21 21 21 21 22 22 22 22 23 23 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34

And to account for the maximum, which is 51, or 17 additional years on the right side, we must really drop the left-hand total by 17 to maintain the same mean... and we cannot... The best we can do is to give everybody younger than 34 the minimum age, which still leaves 9 years unaccounted for, making the average 28.7...

21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 51.

One cannot make the numbers below the stated median (34) any lower (because the minimum age was 21), and any change to the numbers above the median will only increase the mean, since the numbers on the right are as low as can be. Another alternative is to increase or decrease the number of successful applicants from 26 to something greater, like 30 or 35. However, that would still leave a lot of 21 and 22 year olds, and almost no 23-33 year olds, which does not appear to be likely. Therefore, the numbers don't make sense. In other words, the only way these statistics make sense is if TechStars consisted entirely of students that are right out of college and thirty-four and thirty-five year olds.