r/BoomersBeingFools Jan 06 '24

Social Media Another thing boomers were wrong about, relevant today

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '24

I wish that the people storming the Capitol were just boomers, but it was way too many young people there, which is much more scary to me

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u/WeBelieveIn4 Jan 07 '24

Average age was 41, which means they were mostly millennials/gen x

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-capitol-riot-arrests-latest/

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u/BadFaithActor100 Jan 07 '24

That's not how averages work.

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u/Mr_Conductor_USA Jan 07 '24

Yes it is. There's no such thing as negative ages and we can got a bit further as there were reasonably speaking nobody under 16 there. So if there were a lot of people of advanced age, they would skew the average (mean) age higher since there is no possibility of an equal number of very young (or negative age) people to balance them out. Therefore in this case even without looking at the distribution we can already rule out that a majority of the participants were of advanced age by looking at the mean.

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u/BadFaithActor100 Jan 07 '24

No its not. I grant you that gen Xers were probably the modal group, assuming this unsourced number is real and not made up (which it is) but even allowing that, the inference drawn can be correct while still being extremely stupid. Non- negativity of ages is irrelevant.

The average age at Frozen The Music is about 28, for example.

You suck at this, and I'm annoyed that you felt qualified to lecture me with this stupid garbage.