Hi Facts! Statistics, or what are you smoking LJ Part III

[twincityhacker]

Main Stats Page Raw Statistics

Total Accounts: 10,477,246
Total Users That Report Gender Information (Female, Male, or Unspecfified): 5,750,377
Total Users That Report Age: 6,035,503
Users 5-12: 1,984,127
Users 13-19: 1,874,670
Users 20+: 2,137,650
Users 30+: 347,830

I also really like how the bell starts keeps cruving down until it reaches those users in their 80s, upticks 210 users, drops again, then jumps up about 9,256 users when they break their centruy mark. Of course, when the five year olds measure 1,038,807, that ten thousand tick up...

I'd like to mention that, yes, I do understand that peole are lying about their age and not giving them, skewing their results. However, these stats are what the site is going off of when considering what their userbase is. It's why I keep harping on the 1,038,807 five year old users.



The Numbers From the Raw Statistics Page.

age 5 1038807
age 6 939804
age 7 799
age 8 557
age 9 401
age 10 445
age 11 836
age 12 2478
breaking the bell curve: 1,984,127

age 13 15248
age 14 74749
age 15 192080
age 16 335655
age 17 408516
age 18 425166
age 19 423256
breaking the bell curve: 1,874,670

age 20 392211
age 21 326559
age 22 256837
age 23 208389
age 24 165076
age 25 134987
age 26 109423
age 27 79735
age 28 63665
age 29 52938
breaking the bell curve; 1,789,820

age 30 43030
age 31 37167
age 32 29745
age 33 25797
age 34 22466
age 35 21109
age 36 19357
age 37 15693
age 38 11841
age 39 10384
breaking the bell curve: 236,589


age 40 9696
age 41 8259
age 42 7151
age 43 6332
age 44 5857
age 45 5979
age 46 5952
age 47 4564
age 48 3833
age 49 3439
breaking the bell curve: 61,062


age 50 3552
age 51 3137
age 52 2669
age 53 2450
age 54 2025
age 55 1996
age 56 1991
age 57 1453
age 58 1323
age 59 1410

breaking the bell curve: 22,006


age 60 1177
age 61 1074
age 62 819
age 63 825
age 64 782
age 65 579
age 66 500
age 67 358
age 68 336
age 69 357
breaking the bell curve: 6,807



age 70 304
age 71 313
age 72 328
age 73 377
age 74 293
age 75 243
age 76 303
age 77 275
age 78 307
age 79 297
breaking the bell curve: 3,040


age 80 302
age 81 265
age 82 316
age 83 391
age 84 325
age 85 432
age 86 433
age 87 251
age 88 327
age 89 208
breaking the bell curve: 3,250

age 90 93
age 91 159
age 92 204
age 93 394
age 94 421
age 95 348
age 96 261
age 97 258
age 98 305
age 99 332
breaking the bell curve: 2,775

age 100 766
age 101 681
age 102 527
age 103 532
age 104 912
age 105 3527
age 106 3687
age 107 423
age 108 403
age 109 398
breaking the bell curve: 12,301

Comments

[hideyuki-tah.livejournal.com]

Did you account the fact that there are people who lie about their age? In which that's not really going to tell you anything....

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I put that in. I loves my million five year old users.

[insomnia.livejournal.com]

The users who are under 12 are probably lying, pets, or perhaps parents who are posting memories for their kids. One of the parents I know on LiveJournal does this to post pictures of her kid, tell people what she's done lately, etc.

Actual users under 12 are not permitted on LiveJournal for legal reasons. If LiveJournal knows about them, they are legally obligated to remove them from the site.

As for people lying about being 80, 90, or 121, there certainly are several thousand of them. That said, the average age of users most likely curves down gradually. The oldest user I am personally aware of from my days helping run LJ who I know to be real was 89. She passed away a few years back, I believe.

[insomnia.livejournal.com]

I should clarify.

Users 12 and under are not permitted on LiveJournal for legal reasons, specifically because of COPPA regulations (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/coppa.htm).

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I do understand that there is quite a bit of lying and/or misinformation going on here. It's the reason why I keep harping on the five year old users: I think it's the best way to show that the statistics don't make any sense at all.

Which makes it worse when I think that there's a possiblilty that this nonsense is actually being used to make descisions.

And, I admit, I was a little confused where you got your data as well when I was putting this together.