Study: Ages of social network users | Royal Pingdom
Data from Google Ad Planner
Anyone remember the difference between median and mean? (I got a “D” in statistics)
Also, no Tumblr? :(
The mean is what we normally consider to be the “average” of all the numbers, while the median is “middle” value, if you list out all the numbers in order. If you have an odd number of values, it’s the middle value; if you have an even number of values, it’s the average of the middle two values.
Here the median is 37.8 and the mean is someone else doing the math because that requires arithmetic and a calculator, not statistics, and I have other shit to do.
Anyone wanna talk about mode too???
Anyway, this is why I do qualitative work, not quantitative.
ETA: depending on when they did the survey research, tumblr may not have been a viable option? hence the omission? Depends on when the survey was done. Also flickr is not on there, etc. WHO KNOWS.
I can’t believe I’m talking about sociology and research stuff.
I only ask because there’s a big difference between, say, four people between the ages of 30 and 35.2 (I’m looking at you, Xanga), and a group of kids aged 16, 18, and 19, and some creepy skulker aged a ripe 76.2 years.
It would be cool to see each of the social networking sites’ population age plotted out on a bell curve or something.
