How old are you?

I wonder how much this is simply an age reflection of those using this site, versus those who really burn wood. I would like to see the actual age breakdown of wood burners across the country. I bet we'd see it skewed from the 30's up a decade or two. Many of those burners in their 40's, 50's, 60's, may just not be on this site as they aren't digital natives like many "yougin's" but are digital refugees!

pen

If you don't love that woman for that reason, I think this site is testament to the number of men in this country who would!

pen

Yeah, pen, we were musing about that back a page of posts or so. I agree. I suspect that this tiny sampling has some significant built-in bias because it's here on Hearth.com, and there must be scads of woodburners out there who don't even have computers. Heck, even here, it's a scratch in the surface...there are more than 14,000 registered members, and we've had 240 votes so far. I know it doesn't mean much in the big scheme of things, but I still find it kind of interesting. Rick

My apologies for not joining the conversation then!

Whether it be an accurate assessment of woodburners age or not, I too agree that it is at least interesting to investigate! I drive about 50 miles in rural pa to and from work each day (about 20 of which are dirt road). I literally drive past 30+ wood burners just on my venture, and only know of 1 person in my area on this site.

Mark Twain said, "There are Lies, Damn lies, and then there are Statistics." I like his thinking Regardless of this polls validity, it still has worth.

pen

I think Twain was one of the most perceptive, candid, and delightfully articulate observers/interpreters of human thought and behavior ever to put pen to paper. This little poll is certainly valid, but only within an extremely tightly woven context, and if anyone ever attempted to take it out of that context, I certainly would not sign my name to it. It has worth only if we, who are among the very few inhabitants of that tightly woven context find that it does. Rick

Oh I wish you were a classmate of mine in my masters of education courses!

pen

40 - and loving life. A little too busy for my liking, but hey, if ya wanna do stuff, ya gotta be busy to do it. And I like doing stuff.

Just bumping my own poll to see if we can get some more responses...every vote makes it more representative of our little Hearth.com world. Rick