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Alexstarfire t1_iqnlps2 wrote

What is the point of this? I expect there to be a huge gap in these two values because with the median age of the country you're including a lot of babies and kids while you must be >30 y/o to be a senator.

It's a nice graph but the information seems pretty useless to me.

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Kered13 t1_iqoi1o8 wrote

There was a graph yesterday showing the average age of Senators over time, which in particular showed that Senators have gotten a lot older in the last 50 years. This is essentially showing that the average age of the Senate is basically just following general demographic trends in the US.

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