GOOD JUDGEMENT COMES WITH A LOT OF EXPERIENCE,A LOT OF THAT COMES FROM BAD
JUDGEMENT.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon E. Wennerberg" <jon@infodestruction.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 12:12 PM
Subject: Non-LSR How old we are
> 42 Responses, in all of which I used age now, not on next birthday
> (although it's worth noting that many respondents reported their age on
> that next anniversary. I thought "I'm x, going on x+1" was for little
> kids trying to be older than their age. . .) Seven respondents, as far as
> I could tell or remember, were bike racers.
>
> For all racers combined:
> Median age (half older than, half younger than): 55 1/2 years
>
> Average age: 54 7/8 years
>
> Average age, not counting Tim Bryant's 21: 56 3/4 years (next
> youngest after Tim is 32)
>
> Most common age (four of youse guys) 60
>
> One third of you are older than 60, 2/3 younger than 60
>
> With 60 as the most common age, there are 14 older -- and going fourteen
> racers down from 60 you arrive at 47 years old.
>
> 14 of you are in your 60s, by far the most common age decade of this
> group.
>
> For bike folk only: Median was 48, average 49.71. Extremes were 39 & 60.
>
> Finally, there were a number of responders that addressed other
> respondents - without reporting their own age. Hmmm. And there were 41
> resonses from males, one from a female. You can do your own math on that
> one. The results of this survey will be available until I throw them out.
> Anyway, that's enough of this number massaging for now. I got a haircut
> today -- gotta go home and shower and stop this damn itching under my
> collar...
>
> Jon Wennerberg
> Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
> Marquette, Michigan
> (that's 'way up north)
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