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If I'm 25, do I select 20-25 or 25-30?
by pmjordan 18y ago
If I'm 25, do I select 20-25 or 25-30?
- mixmax 18y agoAh, sorry, stupid mistake on my part. Pick 25 - 30 It should, of course go like this: under 15 15 - 24 25 - 29 30 - 34 35 - 39 40 - 44 45 - 49 50 - 54 55 - 59 60 or over There seems to be no way to edit poll choices :-(
- kirubakaran 18y agoFirst option is "under 15". From this you can infer pretty straight forwardly that the next option "15 - 20" means ">= 15 and < 20". (why would he skip the age 15?) ( But you have to read the last option pretty liberally :-) ) Now that I think about this, I realize that there is always one guy in every class who sits in the first row, lifting his hand to ask a question like this :-)
- chiffonade 18y agoAlso, I'm guessing until probably about age 45, people feel better about hitting the next age bracket so they'll mark the older one if there's any overlap.
- colins_pride 18y agoI don't know man .. I'm coming up on 30 in August, and I'm not sure I feel that great about it .. the whole closer to 40 than 20 thing, without feeling like I've done enough that really matters yet ..
- randallsquared 18y agoNo kidding. I felt like a failure at 20 because I hadn't accomplished anything or gotten rich, yet. Now I'm 35, and I still haven't. :/
- noonespecial 18y agoI'm 34 and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up! The graph definitely shows I'm over the hill and fast sliding down the back side. Bummer.
- HeyLaughingBoy 18y agoNah. I turn 44 soon and I still have to do the math to figure out how old I am cause I just don't think about it much. "Lay ordinate and abscissa on the century. Now cut me a quadrant; third quadrant if you please, I was born in '65" Wonder how many know what that's from :-p
- jonsen 18y ago25-30 Take the limit as 25.0000....
- gpmedia 18y agoExcellent point. The alternatives given should 15, 16-20, 21-25 etc. Given this you should pick 20-25 (21-25) if you're 25.
- screwperman 18y agoMost programmers have the habit of using asymmetric bounds i.e. lower bound included, upper bound excluded.
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- Hexstream 18y agoYes. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...