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4:53 PM
Not "in praise", but some site statistics: (restricted to the users who entered their birthdate in the profile, and excluding the abnormal number of those who set the oldest age they could).
The median age of a Math.SE user is 27. The mean age is 28.7. The mode is 25. Graph
 

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