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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3084771, member: 112&quot;]I think you&#039;re looking at the wrong things Jeff, or maybe saying looking at them in the wrong way would be more accurate.</p><p><br /></p><p>The way I&#039;m looking at it is this. It&#039;s not that the existence of coin forums are driving younger people to them. It&#039;s their interest in coins to begin with that is making them seek out websites like coin forums. And the mere fact that there are of them interested enough to change the average age to around 30, when it never did before, well to me that indicates that there are more of them now than there used to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>And is CT a small sampling ? Yeah, sure, you bet it is. But I also think we should consider how polls work, even the big national polls. When the polls are run their sample size is what, 2, to maybe 5 or 6 thousand ? And they base and determine demographics on those all the time. Compare that to the 46,000 I&#039;m basing my comments on.</p><p><br /></p><p>My only point is this - it&#039;s indicative of what&#039;s going on in the larger world. Absolute proof ? Of course not, no more than any poll is proof of anything. But it cannot be argued that it is indicative.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - Regarding that 46,000 number, I think we also have to consider that at any given moment there are 8 to 10 times as many other people viewing this forum as there are members. And then consider just how big that number actually is. And remember, those folks wouldn&#039;t be here either, consistently, day after day hour after hour, unless they had an interest in coins too.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No way to correlate data on the first part of your question. But gender; CT has existed for going on 20 years and in that time - first half to last half - the number of females joining has gone from a tiny fraction to I&#039;d guess pretty close to 35-40%.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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