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Comment by kintamanimatt | Hacker News Reader

Are there really people over 80 and under 10 on this site, or are people just clicking shit for the hell of it?

As I am writing this, there are 8 under 10 and 8 over 90. I think that's a good clue as to a 'margin of error' that should be applied to the results overall.

Edit: wow that went up fast. Now there are 20+ under 8/over 90... I guess whenever an option says "don't abuse this option" there are those who just can't resist.

Quantcast thinks [1] the top three age groups for this site are 35-44 (37%), 45-65 (24%), and 25-34 (15%). Of course, Quantcast also estimates the gender ratio at 53/47 M/F.

To be sure, Quantcast is measuring lurkers + members, whereas this poll is measuring members only. But, nevertheless, my gut feel is Quantcast is simply wrong.

[1] http://www.quantcast.com/news.ycombinator.com#!demo&anch...

I always vote every option in any poll that you can pick more than one thing.

Why? Why fuck up the data like that? The thing with HN Polls is you've no way to create polls in which you can select only one option. All you can do is list the options you want included in the poll, nothing else.

On a side note, your personal website is fucking hilarious.

I have to admit I clicked both my real age and also on 10. Pg needs to fix his polls, because clearly we can't help ourselves.

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

I found his activity graph on github very interesting: https://github.com/will

Amusing that the pattern isn't perfect because of his legitimate git commits adds noise.

Oh, just, wow.

+1 for his site, really funny.

Enjoy your blinking high-contrast giant fucsia text.

And he calls himself a "webmaster."

Would you like me to treat you as under 10 or over 90 from now on, or both at the same time?

Please put your reading glasses on and take the dummy out of your mouth, then re-read the poll text:

"Please be honest and click one answer only!"

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