iPad owners average age

[Snowlady]

Guess who can afford the toys now us! Love to hear from all here, however. It's a great way to get you "kids" to talk with us. You needn't look at our wrinkles and grey hair!

 

[Victguja]

You cannot take the percentage based on the the survey sample size to the size of the entire set. Generally speaking, the bigger your sample size, the higher your accuracy becomes, but past a certain threshold, the margin of accuracy becomes good enough for most statistical analyses.

Try this -- Sample Size Calculator - Confidence Level, Confidence Interval, Sample Size, Population Size, Relevant Population - Creative Research Systems

You'll see that to derive a confidence level of 95% with an interval of 5%, you only need 384 responses. To increase confidence level to 99% with a 5% interval, it barely doubles to 666 responses.

(By the way, I'd guesstimate that the volume of iPad sales would be somewhere closer to the 18-20 million mark.)

I am sorry but I do not agree. Those numbers are valid just in case of unbiased population, that is ideal, it is never completely unbiased. When the population is biased, the numbers have to be increased in case you are able to quantify the bias that is absolutely not trivial. It is preferable to choose unbiased population.
As a matter of fact at the link that you indicate, a part the computation tool they have a section dedicated to the design of survey where they show that before looking at the numbers you have to choose very carefully the sample population otherwise the numbers are meningless.
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In our case, we have a strongly biased population ( strongly because we are polling for age and the selection of the participants depends on their age - as I have mentioned, writing on a forum is an activity that is strongly social and cultural and depends intrinsically on the degree of study and on the desire and skills of communication of the polled people. Those are strongle age related). Consequently the numbers polled are (and will probably be) too low in order to offer a good confidence level relative to the complete iPad owners population indifferently how much higher than my 4M guess would be.
At least this is my opinion.

 

[David79]

32 here

 

[tzimisce]

In our case, we have a strongly biased population ( strongly because we are polling for age and the selection of the participants depends on their age - as I have mentioned, writing on a forum is an activity that is strongly social and cultural and depends intrinsically on the degree of study and on the desire and skills of communication of the polled people. Those are strongle age related). Consequently the numbers polled are (and will probably be) too low in order to offer a good confidence level relative to the complete iPad owners population indifferently how much higher than my 4M guess would be. At least this is my opinion.

I don't actually see that the systemic bias you mention would skew the outcome of this poll by very much, certainly not on this sample size. The only anomaly I see are the high numbers in the 55+ age group, but all the other numbers would pass a sanity check at a glance.

I would have in fact thought that factoring online social interaction as a bias would skew the result toward the younger age groups than older, but of course without a more rigorous statistical framework, an opinion is just an opinion.

 

[VampiressRN]

57 in a few days. I'm a geek-wanna-be...wish I had more techno brains. I love gadgets and if I can figure them out on my own I am OK, cause usually there is nobody around in my circle of friends that are into anything more than a phone. I learn best by live demonstration so sometimes I can be very challenged. I think if the poll was further divided, might find the younger crowd would be more into gaming, but maybe someone should set up a poll to find out. I'm a newbie, but mostly focused on the production aspect of the product.

Shout out for us "old" peeps.

 

[skypod]

Wow. Really suprised at the poll results so far. Im 26 myself. Lord knows what piece of tech i will be obsessing over in 30/40 years time. Good times. 

 

[Applephile]

Average age of iPad users

I'm 70, almost 71 and use iPod,iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. I've had Apple computers since about 1985 and although I have to use PCs for work I just love everything Apple. For someone who is not really a computer expert by any stretch of the imagination the apple products are quite wonderful!

 

[iPadCharlie]

57 in a few days.

Happy (almost) Birthday. You may have put me on your friends list, but I'm still not buying you an iPad2 for your birthday!

Shout out for us "old" peeps.

<======== 54 in May, and I have plenty of grey hair to prove it!

 

[Al Rogers]

Top of the class

After all these years I'm finally in the top list,age has its perks and when I find out what they are I will post them.


Al.

 

[iPadCharlie]

After all these years I'm finally in the top list,age has its perks and when I find out what they are I will post them.


Al.

Things are coming full circle. I haven't been carded in over 30 years but now I can't wait to get carded again.... for my senior discount!

 

[VampiressRN]

Damnitall...and was so looking forward to being able to post:

I got this iPad2 as a burfday gift from 1991-C4...how do I...yada yada yada...and what about the...and is it possible to...what app will...

 

[iPadCharlie]

Well..... lemme see how much I get for my iPad1 on Craigslist!

 

[arci]

30 years old here..and starting to like apple..but will not throw away my pc's just add macs...

 

[slothead]

Well..... lemme see how much I get for my iPad1 on Craigslist!

Keep us posted on your results!

 

[alhof1]

I will be 85 this year!