How Old Do You Have To Be To Become President?
Hello everyone this relatively short article was a project that I actually started before this outlet even existed. I was playing around with Microsoft Access circa 2017 in order to get familiar with it for a class and recorded a bunch of data on Presidents. That included join dates that went into a similar version of this
piece but also the publicly available birthdays on the old forum. Since then I've periodically reached out to our newly elected leaders to continue updating the data under the idea I would actually put this article out at some point. After 3+ years that day has finally arrived.
There seems to be a clear increase in the ages of our top regional leader post 2014. Prior to January 1st 2014, the average age was 19.21 years old while after it jumps to 26.52 years. This to some degree inherently makes sense. For one as existing players aged and if they took a long time getting around to becoming President that is reflected in the higher numbers. Additionally one could assume as the average age of the region increased and it consisted of more than teenagers running around players approaching middle age would fit in better with the community.
When cross-comparing time to presidency, calculated by the most recent
method, the isn't a clear correlation with age. My initial assumption would be that older players would rise faster as they would have the advantage of their accumulated real life wisdom but that doesn't seem to be the case. While there seems to be an upward correlation up to about 25 that completely falls apparat past that point. Our older members are both some of the fastest and slowest to reach a Head of State Position.
Above you can see that our illustrious founded has come in as the youngest Head of State we have ever had at the absolute lowest it could ever be. The minimum age to play is 13 and I highly doubt that record will ever be tied. Notably however two recent leaders have come in right behind at 15 years old, joining Earth22. On the other side of things Kuramia and Deepest House come it tied for the oldest age a Europeian has first become Head of State at 38. It's pretty interesting that the range of success here is over two decades.
Anyway that's it for this short piece. Due to some of the players who provided their age requesting that it not be linked to them, I will not be sharing the spreadsheet of data behind this. If you have any questions I'll be happy to try to answer them respecting those privacy wishes.
