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Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-12-16 03:10am

Here ya go Zaia. Just what you asked for. Now, if I can get that damn camer of mine to take a picture of me on one knee...

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-12-16 03:39am

I bought booze for my manager, and got carded!

Oh, btw we are both in our early thirties.

Post by **Dalton** » 2002-12-16 03:41am

Hah, 22 and I almost never get carded

Post by **Gandalf** » 2002-12-16 04:05am

I'm 17, look 14 though, works at the movies

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2002-12-16 04:37am

Drewcifer wrote: Yeah, it is a little weird. I did some research online though, and for a group of people this size (the ~90 that voted), there is a 99% chance that two people will have the same birthday. I'm not sure what the chances are for two groups of people to have the same respective birthdays, but probably close. Unfortunately, all of the birthday probability studies I found disregarded the birthyear, so I have no idea what the chances of having the exact same birthday are. Much less, I'd guess.

Hmmm....
0.99*0.99 is not very high, but we could narrow it down by finding out exactly how many pairs of poeple share the same birthday.

As for years, our age ranges span roughly 20 years, but are mostly within a 10 year bracket.
Lets say there are 100 of us, two pairs of which share the exact same birthdate.
There are 20*365 days that this date can be = 7300
If my birthday is 11/02/81 (dd/mm/yy, because it's more logical), than the chances of Ewo, picked at random, of having the same birthday is 99/7300 = 0.0136
Of the 98 left, your birthday is the same as Jegs2, so the probability of that is 97/7300, =0.0133
0.0136*0.0133 = 0.000181
which is 0.02%

The same calculations given a 10 year age range gives 0.07% - nearly four times that

But the ages are not evenly distributed acorss the range, they give normal distribution.

Someone want to correct my maths? It's been too long...

Tell you want - Christmas puzzle I'll set my parents (Mum's doing a maths degree). We'll work out what the actual probablilty is.

Who else shares exact birthdates?

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-12-16 04:44am

18. I have been given guesstimates on my age from 16-24, most of them hovering around 20-22. Go me. I've been carded for cigarettes three tiems out of about 10.

Post by **Zaia** » 2002-12-16 12:06pm

DG_Cal_Wright wrote:

Here ya go Zaia. Just what you asked for. Now, if I can get that damn camera of mine to take a picture of me on one knee...

ROTFLMAO!!

Too funny! And platinum to boot! Rock on!!

*swoon* Oh, wait, I'll do this Verilon-style: *dies*

I still have to think about it, though... You aren't an Aussie citizen by any chance, are ya Cal?

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-12-16 01:35pm

Hell naw. I'm not upside down like Wee. I'm a full blooded American, Southern at that.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2002-12-16 08:47pm

Although whether or not that's a good thing is debatable.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-12-16 09:12pm

Very funny Yoshi. Very funny.

David · Post by **David** » 2002-12-16 10:25pm

DG_Cal_Wright wrote:Hell naw. I'm not upside down like Wee. I'm a full blooded American, Southern at that.

HMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm me too

Post by **Zaia** » 2002-12-16 10:44pm

David wrote:
DG_Cal_Wright wrote:Hell naw. I'm not upside down like Wee. I'm a full blooded American, Southern at that.
HMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm me too

*looks at David* Well? Do I look 14?

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2002-12-16 10:56pm

People could usually guess my age within a year of correctness (didn't know how to get it out right and I'm in a hurry

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Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2002-12-16 11:03pm

Zaia wrote:
David wrote:
DG_Cal_Wright wrote:Hell naw. I'm not upside down like Wee. I'm a full blooded American, Southern at that.
HMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm me too
*looks at David* Well? Do I look 14?

If I may comment, you look perfectly lega- I mean older than fourteen.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2002-12-16 11:05pm

Zaia wrote: *looks at David* Well? Do I look 14?

We'd obviously need a photo in order to make that judgement won't we?

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-12-16 11:24pm

What part of the South are you from David?

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2002-12-17 03:19am

innerbrat wrote:
Drewcifer wrote: Yeah, it is a little weird. I did some research online though, and for a group of people this size (the ~90 that voted), there is a 99% chance that two people will have the same birthday. I'm not sure what the chances are for two groups of people to have the same respective birthdays, but probably close. Unfortunately, all of the birthday probability studies I found disregarded the birthyear, so I have no idea what the chances of having the exact same birthday are. Much less, I'd guess.
Hmmm....
0.99*0.99 is not very high, but we could narrow it down by finding out exactly how many pairs of poeple share the same birthday.

As for years, our age ranges span roughly 20 years, but are mostly within a 10 year bracket.
Lets say there are 100 of us, two pairs of which share the exact same birthdate.
There are 20*365 days that this date can be = 7300
If my birthday is 11/02/81 (dd/mm/yy, because it's more logical), than the chances of Ewo, picked at random, of having the same birthday is 99/7300 = 0.0136
Of the 98 left, your birthday is the same as Jegs2, so the probability of that is 97/7300, =0.0133
0.0136*0.0133 = 0.000181
which is 0.02%

The same calculations given a 10 year age range gives 0.07% - nearly four times that

But the ages are not evenly distributed acorss the range, they give normal distribution.

Someone want to correct my maths? It's been too long...

Tell you want - Christmas puzzle I'll set my parents (Mum's doing a maths degree). We'll work out what the actual probablilty is.

Who else shares exact birthdates?

For shits and grins, I quoted this in a new thread in the SLAM forum:

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=8433

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-12-17 07:59am

I'm 21, born August 24th 1981

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-12-17 10:58am

When I was in England this year, in Warwick, there was this really hot girl, everybody thought she was like in her early twenties.

Turned out that she was TWELVE.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-12-17 10:59am

Zaia wrote: *looks at David* Well? Do I look 14?

You don't look 14 Zaia, I thought you looked much older, or was that your friend...

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2002-12-17 03:50pm

McNum · Post by **McNum** » 2002-12-17 04:02pm

20
Born November 14th 1982.

J · Post by J » 2002-12-17 09:54pm

Ted wrote:When I was in England this year, in Warwick, there was this really hot girl, everybody thought she was like in her early twenties.

Turned out that she was TWELVE.

It wasn't quite that bad for me, I was being mistaken for a 20ish woman when I was a good 5 years younger than that. Same thing with my sister, she's 2 years younger than me yet everyone thinks she's the older one. Granted she's been a tad taller than me for a while now but there's other things too, like curves....Oh well....

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-12-17 09:57pm

jmac wrote:
Ted wrote:When I was in England this year, in Warwick, there was this really hot girl, everybody thought she was like in her early twenties.

Turned out that she was TWELVE.
It wasn't quite that bad for me, I was being mistaken for a 20ish woman when I was a good 5 years younger than that. Same thing with my sister, she's 2 years younger than me yet everyone thinks she's the older one. Granted she's been a tad taller than me for a while now but there's other things too, like curves....Oh well....

Curves in the proper places will make someone seem alot older.

In the US, black women who use a certain shampoo have babies that develop early, due to a massive increase in hormones, and are fully sexually develpoed by like 14.

J · Post by J » 2002-12-17 10:00pm

Ummm...I shoulda worded it better but it's like this. I was the one with more curviness while my sister was the taller one. Strange...

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