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View Poll Results: What age group do you fall into?
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20 years old or younger
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0.85% |
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21-27
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18 |
5.10% |
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28-34
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35 |
9.92% |
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35-41
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11.05% |
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42-48
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54 |
15.30% |
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49-55
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70 |
19.83% |
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56-62
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64 |
18.13% |
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63 years old or older
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70 |
19.83% |
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05-13-2010, 11:02 PM
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AllAboutTheROE
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Location: Denver
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How old are you?
Just interested to see the demographics of P.A, and wondering how it compares to the thoroughbred handicapping fan base as a whole.
How old is the average horse player you think?
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05-13-2010, 11:13 PM
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Registered User
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Originally Posted by CBedo
Just interested to see the demographics of P.A, and wondering how it compares to the thoroughbred handicapping fan base as a whole.
How old is the average horse player you think?
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05-13-2010, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by CBedo
How old is the average horse player you think?
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When I was in Lexi, I'd probably have guessed the average age to be around 40 (though distribution was pretty wide, given that Lexington is, after all, Lexington).
'Round here (read: IN), it's about 94. In the OTBs, maybe 128.
Regional variation at the local level, methinks. 
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05-13-2010, 11:23 PM
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05-13-2010, 11:32 PM
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I think your poll will be lopsided toward an older demographic.
No self-respecting young person would want to hang out here with a bunch of geezers laying around on their sofas wearing nothing but old faded Pink Floyd T-shirts and their draw string cinched "lounge pants", falling asleep in front of their computer screens and dreaming about the days when they had a full head of hair and all races were run on dirt.
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05-13-2010, 11:35 PM
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Comfortably Numb
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Originally Posted by ManeMediaMogul
old faded Pink Floyd T-shirts
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It's surprising how many 20 YO's I've seen lately wearing Pink Floyd Tees 
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05-13-2010, 11:38 PM
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Racing Form Detective
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Lincoln, Ne but my heart is at Santa Anita
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Old enough to know better and too young to care. I have no idea what that means, but it sounded cool. 
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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05-13-2010, 11:46 PM
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Location: The Rock
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Thanks CeBedo. The options in the poll just reinforced a fact that have yet to come to terms with. I can no longer say I am in my early 30s.
sigh.
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05-13-2010, 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by ManeMediaMogul
I think your poll will be lopsided toward an older demographic.
No self-respecting young person would want to hang out here with a bunch of geezers laying around on their sofas wearing nothing but old faded Pink Floyd T-shirts and their draw string cinched "lounge pants", falling asleep in front of their computer screens and dreaming about the days when they had a full head of hair and all races were run on dirt.
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Usually when we do this, it skews young just like everything else on the internet. The 80 year olds aren't quite as hip to computer forums (in general).
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05-14-2010, 12:46 AM
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Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Mississippi
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Originally Posted by ManeMediaMogul
I think your poll will be lopsided toward an older demographic.
No self-respecting young person would want to hang out here with a bunch of geezers laying around on their sofas wearing nothing but old faded Pink Floyd T-shirts and their draw string cinched "lounge pants", falling asleep in front of their computer screens and dreaming about the days when they had a full head of hair and all races were run on dirt.
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So you're the one who has been peeking into my windows at night. 
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05-14-2010, 12:49 AM
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Just another Facist
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Originally Posted by ManeMediaMogul
I think your poll will be lopsided toward an older demographic.
No self-respecting young person would want to hang out here with a bunch of geezers laying around on their sofas wearing nothing but old faded Pink Floyd T-shirts and their draw string cinched "lounge pants", falling asleep in front of their computer screens and dreaming about the days when they had a full head of hair and all races were run on dirt.
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I showed this post to my wife and she laughed, she wanted to know if you have been looking in my window
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05-14-2010, 01:06 AM
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AllAboutTheROE
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Location: Denver
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Originally Posted by BluegrassProf
When I was in Lexi, I'd probably have guessed the average age to be around 40 (though distribution was pretty wide, given that Lexington is, after all, Lexington).
'Round here (read: IN), it's about 94. In the OTBs, maybe 128.
Regional variation at the local level, methinks. |
Same in Denver OTBS. The average age is at least 25 years older than those I see when at Arapahoe (which isn't young by any means).
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05-14-2010, 01:08 AM
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AllAboutTheROE
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Originally Posted by Learned Hand35
Thanks CeBedo. The options in the poll just reinforced a fact that have yet to come to terms with. I can no longer say I am in my early 30s.
sigh.
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Ha! At 40 years old, I must admit that I had to play with the age bins so that I got into one that still included some thirty somethings!
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05-14-2010, 01:09 AM
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AllAboutTheROE
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Location: Denver
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Originally Posted by ManeMediaMogul
I think your poll will be lopsided toward an older demographic.
No self-respecting young person would want to hang out here with a bunch of geezers laying around on their sofas wearing nothing but old faded Pink Floyd T-shirts and their draw string cinched "lounge pants", falling asleep in front of their computer screens and dreaming about the days when they had a full head of hair and all races were run on dirt.
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As crotchety as we all get sometimes here at P.A. some might have thought that we were all too old for Pink Floyd! HA! 
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05-14-2010, 01:10 AM
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Location: Reno, NV
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Not sure why anyone would care but I am 59 going on 22.
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