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Here's a histogram of ages, as they appear right now in the poll. It seems they follow a poisson distribution peaking around 27. ------- ---------------------
by mixmax 18y ago
Here's a histogram of ages, as they appear right now in the poll. It seems they follow a poisson distribution peaking around 27.
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- jwilliams 18y agoHistogram of HN ages.... at midday on a Sunday :-)
- mixmax 18y agosad isn't it? :-)
- kirubakaran 18y agoI think he means the histogram might look different at a different time.
- eskimo 18y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
- omarish 18y agoWhy would you call it poisson?
- sep332 18y agoLet me Wikipedia that for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution :-)
- bd 18y agoBecause it looks like one (compared to Gaussian it's skewed): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution
- omarish 18y agoIt looks a bit like one, but it could be any group of others. Poisson distributions would be used normally in a circumstance that resembles an arrival process (say hits to a web server), but not for a distribution like ages on a site like this.
- nikblack 18y ago27.. phew .. my guess was 16. I feel better now.