Still slightly obsessed

[ciphergoth]

Pollsters should stop classifying people by age, and classify them by (say) decade of birth instead, so that demographic breakdowns of polls in different years can be directly compared.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Speaking of politics and slightly obsessive geekery, have you seen this?
http://qntm.org/?gay

[babysimon]

Having recently poked at a system which attempts to codify the rules about gender, marriage and civil partnership in Schematron, I think Y2Gay has a nice ring to it...

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Yes.

And none of them should be called Generation X,Y or X...

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Wow, that would be tremendously useful.

[lovingboth]

Hmm, isn't 1960s/70s/80s etc just as arbitrary as 18-25, 26-35, 46-dead or whatever?

What you want are some longtitudinal studies where they look at the same people over several decades.