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Out of a total of 151 responses (I threw out about 5), we have:
53 atheist, apatheist, agnostic, non-religious, and spiritual but anti-organized relion
35 LDS
16 Christian of indeterminate denomination
15 Catholic, both Roman and otherwise
13 Methodist
9 Jewish
and singles or doubles of each of the following: Seventh Day Adventist, Baptist, Mennonite, Taoist, Jehovah's Witness, Church of the Final Atonement, and Congregationalist.
Everything is divided into 3 categories - LDS, atheist/agnostic, and religious non-LDS. Each category is subdivided based on age, with 30* and above being designated "old" and 29 and below designated "young".
Again, repeating what I said in the actual thread, this is in no way a statistically valid survey, because response was voluntary (guaranteeing a poor sample). And, I almost surely typed something into the spreadsheet incorrectly at some point. But it's fun, and I bet it's fairly representative.
Thanks to Kayla for letting me hijack her thread, just because I was bored at work and like Excel.
*I know 30 isn't very old but, as I said in the other thread, there were still way more "young" responses than "old" even with an admittedly low cutoff for "old". What can I say, message boards are mainly full of young people.
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I think that's a separate thread for a separate time. And if I had to guess, there's about 7900 unique usernames. No telling how many of those are active in a given year. Pop probably has the stats on that.
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I don't think athiest and "non religous, but spiritual" belong in the same category.
You might as well group "LDS" and "relgious, non LDS" in the same category. Or just one big category with everyone who replied in it. Posts: 8741 | Registered: Apr 2001
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Non-religious, but spiritual, were two people. In both cases, they indicated that they disdained organized religion, but believed in a power greater than themselves.
Where would you put them?
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Well, at least we've made this point here: we are not, as a group, "mostly young LDS" people. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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quote:Originally posted by Strider: I don't think athiest and "non religous, but spiritual" belong in the same category.
You might as well group "LDS" and "relgious, non LDS" in the same category. Or just one big category with everyone who replied in it.
No one is stopping you from compiling your own statistics from the raw data. In fact, I think your idea is interesting, and I look forward to seeing your interpretation of the data, too.
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quote: as I said in the other thread, there were still way more "young" responses than "old" even with an admittedly low cutoff for "old". What can I say, message boards are mainly full of young people.
That, and the fact that ASL queries are pretty much only popular among the young. Once you get above the age of 25, you've answered those questions too often to enjoy answering them again.
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So we're about 30% old and 70% young. That's interesting. It seems to me that the internet as a whole is generally much younger than hatrack. Do other people get this feeling too? I don't go many places online, so my impression might be skewed. What do you guys think?
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If the internet is a mall, most people hang out at the arcade, or at Suncoast, or Abercrombie, or the food court.
Hatrack is like the Waldenbooks in the far corner. It's out of the high traffic area, and most people that go there went looking for it.
Tom, I agree that the old people are less likely to reply to the a/s/l questions, but not because they're so much more experienced. It's simply because they don't like calling attention to the fact that they're old. They used to be young, and online they can still be young until they lift the curtain and reveal their real age.
I have no idea how old you are, but I could guess based on your posts and the things I know about you. I think the people who abstained from answering the survey were the hatrackers who've been around long enough to have already done that sort of thing multiple time. But that's a totally different type of old.
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quote: I agree that the old people are less likely to reply to the a/s/l questions, but not because they're so much more experienced. It's simply because they don't like calling attention to the fact that they're old. They used to be young, and online they can still be young until they lift the curtain and reveal their real age.
*crawls into a corner and whimpers*
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For crying out loud! I'm one of the youngest here, possibly second-youngest of the active posters - and I have a sister (and probably a brother too) older than Tom.
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quote:I agree that the old people are less likely to reply to the a/s/l questions, but not because they're so much more experienced. It's simply because they don't like calling attention to the fact that they're old. They used to be young, and online they can still be young until they lift the curtain and reveal their real age.
Just curious why you would assume people would rather be young? I've been both and old is much more fun. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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quote:For crying out loud! I'm one of the youngest here, possibly second-youngest of the active posters - and I have a sister (and probably a brother too) older than Tom.
Heh. And I have a brother who's closer in age to Tom's child.
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Hatrack is like the Waldenbooks in the far corner. It's out of the high traffic area, and most people that go there went looking for it.
Great analogy. It fits perfectly.
quote:It's simply because they don't like calling attention to the fact that they're old. They used to be young, and online they can still be young until they lift the curtain and reveal their real age.
Ahhh! For the sprightliness of youth once again. Alas, 'tis more than fifty years since these old bones be not a creakin.' Posts: 831 | Registered: Jul 2005
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