Have LWers ever used Usenet? By that, I mean: connected to a NNTP server (not Google Groups) with a newsreader to read discussions and perhaps comment (not solely download movies & files).
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Your age is:
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I am curious about the age-distribution of Usenet use: I get the feeling that there is a very sharp fall in Usenet age such that all nerds who grew up in the '70s-'80s used Usenet, but nerd teens in the mid-'90s to now have zero usage of it except for a rare few who know it as a better BitTorrent.
A belated analysis: hypothesis confirmed to my satisfaction - as expected, age is strongly related to Usenet-familiarity. (There's even a hint of a quick shift in the histograms.)
# https://www.dropbox.com/s/d5kddi1ckl3qbxk/2015-02-26-lw-usenet.csv
usenet <- read.csv("2015-02-26-lw-usenet.csv", header=FALSE)
usenet2 <- data.frame(Usenet=usenet[1:67,]$V3, Age=usenet[68:134,]$V3)
## the default LW poll encoding is yes=0, no=1; this is very confusing, so let's reverse it
usenet2$Usenet <- (usenet2$Usenet==0)
wilcox.test(Age ~ Usenet, data=
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