How old are you and what is your education level?

[nextmoveone]

Hey I was wondering?

What are hackers age and education?

Feel free to add: Age + Education Level

Me = 20 + High School.

[steveplace]

At the time of this posting, and including me (22 + BSEE) and the OP, here are some stats:

Sample Size: 88

Max: 62

Min: 18

Mean: 27.3

Median: 25.5

StdDev: 8.17

I excluded some outliers based on claims I believed to be false or silly (4 yo w/ laptop and 87 w/ high school)

Pretty interesting stats. Disclaimer ripped from slashdot:

"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."

[cperciva]

More interesting statistics: Out of a sample size of 107 (as above, after removing obviously silly reports), there are:

41 people whose highest completed degree is a Bachelor's,

17 people whose highest completed degree is a Master's, and

5 people whose highest completed degree is a Doctorate.

At all three levels, there's roughly a 40:20:40 split between degrees in areas other than computing, people who didn't state what field their degree is in, and degrees in computing.

[spking]

25 + Struggling to finish my last year as an undergrad; taking pointless bullshit required GE classes that I couldn't bring myself to complete the first time around.

[tokipin]

i must have failed english four or five times before i dropped out. doesn't help that i could have taught the teachers

24 i think (lost count) + almost electronics engineering BS + 100k debt. just dandy ^_^

i'm looking to return for physics/math soon, but i'm wondering if my time would be better served atm in another endeavor

[edw519]

Sometimes I think the whole point of college is, "If this person can bring themselves to complete pointless bullshit, then they can bring themselves to complete anything."

[tzury]

I am 4 years old going to kindergarten with my laptop.

[breck]

Really? What type of laptop?

[rokhayakebe]

25 + dropout twice. Never going back.

[pietro]

40 + BA in Architecture (buildings), sort of getting an MS in Computer Science

[jojoleflaire]

36 - B.A., M.A. Classics; undergrad minor in Comp. Sci. 2 startups: 1 acquired; 1 round C and soon-to-be-profitable.

[bigred]

62 + 1 year college - wow! there's a lot young uns here

[caveman82]

25+Master's in Life (oh yea,I have a B.S. in EE too)

[cheponis]

53+BS EECS + all non-thesis work toward PhD

But what's the point of data from a self-selecting sample?

[rms]

this is not a statistical study, it's a forum thread. It's for entertainment, mostly

[pcurtain]

44 + 2 yrs college (accounting! :) ) --p

[ryanspahn]

32 + B.S. Recording Industry Founder of Sleep.FM - The Social Alarm Clock

[chadboyda]

28 + CHSPE

My high school counselor recommended I graduate early to attend college, but being 16 and feeling unchallenged by school I opted to apply myself to the real world and started my own business instead.

[yudkowsky]

28 + no high school, cofounder of nonprofit with ~$X00K/year donations

[jey]

Nice to see you here.

22 / kicked out of college / wish I was yudkowsky

[asmosoinio]

27 (this young still for a few more days!) + MS in Computer Engineering (Wonder if that term really works for example in the US? Anyway that's what the university here calls it in English.)

[cperciva]

26 + D.Phil in Computer Science (D.Phil is Oxonian for PhD.)

[jdavid]

28 + BS. Computer Engineering with near minors in art/ anthropology/ math/ and theo-philosophy 180 hrs attempted 148 accomplished.

3 semesters of continuing edu in japanese

[jsnx]

I'm 26. I was in college for two years, studying Physics and then CS. I left to study Zen, in California, and then went into contracting.

[gibsonf1]

41 + Architecture (building) college for 5 years - left school 2 months before degree for NYC + famous Architect - long story

[PStamatiou]

21 + 1 year left for BS in Computational Media (new major here - half CS, half design, culture, media, etc) at Georgia Tech

[electric]

87 + High school