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I'm finished with this project. I know that 20 people polled is hardly an adequate sampling. I remember reading somewhere that the magic number was 200, but it would have been impossible to keep a poll going that long.

For the averages: I've counted (21 and above) simply as 21 and (12 and under) simply as 12. This makes a very big difference to the averages, so please keep this in mind.

Average age in the Guild: 17.6 rounds up to 18

Average age I sampled in the ChatterBox: 16.3 rounds down to 16

Not exactly the vast dynamic that everyone suspected, is it?

So what really sets a part from the Gaian proper?

Are we in AP classes, come from better schools, more affluent, or do we just care more?

It is still a mystery, because I'm not running another one of these polls again. You are on your own.

On an interesting side note: babblefish.com now has a translator that translates common internet acronyms. They also have articles based on the decay of English. It might be fun to check out in your spare times.

This is an awesome idea for a poll.

I heart Math!

For the poll here in the Grammar guild, taking into account the two people who posted their ages in the thread as 23 and 28 and listing everybody else 'over 21' as 21 and 'under 13' as 12 the:
Ccurrent average is:
17 years, 9 months, and 7 days
Current Mode:
21+ (Technically, it should probably be 16 since that has the most people at a specific age.)
(26 polled)

For the poll which you placed in the chatterbox (and I can't believe you didn't get more results just from people poll whoring), taking into account all people listed as 21+ as 21 (since no one posted their ages) and those 12- as 12 the:
Current average is:
16 years, 4 months, and 18 days
Current Mode:
17 (This doesn't actually need a disclaimer... but I put one here anyway so you would know this is technically correct.)
(21 polled)

I also bumped your chatterbox thread, because I'm betting it will be getting busier now and I want to see what other results come up. I don't know what time zone you're in, but mine lists your poll as coming out at 10am. That's not typically prime Gaia hours.

I heart Math so hard. You have no idea how much fun I'm having right now. I was tempting to go into hours and minutes for the average, but figured that would be a bit extreme.

Note: I only voted in the Grammar Guild thread. I rarely Chatterbox.

Im thirteen <3

I'm thirteen... One of four, apparently. Or, at least, one of four people who've taken the poll.

Wow, I'm glad to see that this thread is still alive. smile

You are not much older than I am, Kipluck, I'm 26. My wife, Danielle DeArdent, is 27. I think that the majority of Gaia users are in the younger age bracket, and I don't think it is fair to tie intellect to age. I spent the majority of my youth in advanced learning facilities, the curriculum of which I now find listed in most private or academic schools that boast a more 'public' curriculum.

I think that, any way you slice it, kids are just being raised smarter as a counter balance to the degree of mindless media material they are exposed to. With how much soulless music they listen to, books they read or programs they watch with little to no definitive plot structure or intellectual content, I think they have to push them in schools in order for them to keep up with how our society's level of intellectual construction is rising.

I consider myself fairly intelligent, but I realize that by the time my children are my age, they'll know exponentially greater things than I could ever conceive of.

Actually, I'm in all IB (International Baccalaureate) and AP (Advanced Placement) classes. I don't think it matters though, because while in MYP-IB (Middle Years Program - IB), I used "txt-tlk". I just think it's a sign of mental maturity when people realize text talk isn't going to get them anywhere in life. I mean, which boss wants a document typed up in a grotesque language?