LibriVox Average Age Survey

Petra · Post by **Petra** » June 30th, 2012, 2:18 pm

No worries, Catrose.

That sort of coincidence is bound to happen, really!

Thank you for entering your data.

bascomjean · Post by **bascomjean** » August 30th, 2012, 4:37 pm

What a fun idea!

Raybrite · Post by **Raybrite** » October 9th, 2012, 11:02 pm

I got a message that said Google was running a long script. When that stopped is went to 100 an dwould not let me enter mine. (1/1/1940).
Thanks.

catrose · Post by **catrose** » October 10th, 2012, 12:05 am

Raybrite wrote:I got a message that said Google was running a long script. When that stopped is went to 100 an dwould not let me enter mine. (1/1/1940).
Thanks.

I've added it for you

Petra · Post by **Petra** » October 10th, 2012, 6:17 am

Thanks for keeping an eye on this, Cat!

I've only been dropping in on this sporadically in the last couple of months, so I only just noticed that one of the instruction boxes has been cleared. I can't work out what it used to say, so maybe it wasn't a very important one?

catrose · Post by **catrose** » October 10th, 2012, 9:33 am

I took a look and I can't figure it out either!

Cori · Post by **Cori** » October 10th, 2012, 11:57 am

If you are signed into a Google account, you can look in File > See Revision History (the greatest invention since the slicing of the bread) and from that I have refilled the box with:

3. This should duplicate the year-counting formula and spit out your age (approximately).

catrose · Post by **catrose** » October 10th, 2012, 12:14 pm

Cori, you're a genius!

Petra · Post by **Petra** » October 10th, 2012, 2:00 pm

Ooh, that's neat! Thank you, Cori!

Paul E J King · Post by **Paul E J King** » December 15th, 2012, 8:22 pm

When I tried to follow instructions, the age in column B did not appear automatically. I had to type it in.

With the stats background I have, as I understand these things, it won't be more than an informal survey, since there is a likelihood of non-response bias whenever something like age is asked for. Non-responders can affect the average. However, the way it's done does eliminate response bias (people lying to you about their age), or mitigate it in a big way, so that is a big plus.

There is the other problem of an absent-minded participant entering themselves more than once. Not sure if that's an issue.

catrose · Post by **catrose** » December 16th, 2012, 3:14 am

Fixed now

Petra · Post by **Petra** » December 16th, 2012, 5:54 am

Don't worry about the accuracy of the results, this was just set up for fun. It makes it clear just how diverse a community LibriVox is, which is frankly fantastic!

So thank you for participating.

kandi1234 · Post by **kandi1234** » February 17th, 2013, 8:57 pm

catchpenny wrote:I think I broke it.

LOL! me too! i think i did i right cat...but i am a blonde...so....

kandi1234 · Post by **kandi1234** » February 17th, 2013, 8:58 pm

sorry! i meant petra!!! lol! there goes the blonde again!!

kandi1234 · Post by **kandi1234** » February 17th, 2013, 8:59 pm

ps way to go rockstar on setting this up! totally genius!