Re: The aging of the amateur
From: Martin Brown (|||newspam|||_at_nezumi.demon.co.uk)
Date: 11/07/04
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Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 21:45:55 +0000
In message <opsg150fii9a1vn4@news.west.cox.net>, Tom Polakis
<polakisgroups@cox.net> writes
>On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 13:26:44 -0500, RichA <none@none.com> wrote:
>
>> This is something I can't quite pin down.
>> A few years ago, I noticed that amateurs seemed
>> to be older than they were 20 years ago, on average...
>
>They are. take a look at the story that begins on p. 82 of the
>September 2000 S&T. Between 1979 and 1998 the U.S. median age went
>from 30 to 32 years while the S&T subscriber median age went from 35 to
>48. The story offers plausible explanations. I think it has
>everything to do with proximity to a dark sky, and countless other
>urban and suburban distractions offered to Generation X-and Y-ers.
Don't underestimate the positive influence of the highly successful
Apollo programme to put men on the moon. That brought a lot of people
into the hobby during the 60's. These days there are coffee book images
from HST all over the web so that observing directly has lost some of
its appeal.
Chess also had a renaissance in the public eye around that time due to
the Cold War proxy grudge match of Fischer vs Passkey in Iceland..
Regards,
-- Martin Brown
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