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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
So, what percentage do you guys/gals think?

Originally posted by Not Me
I would say it is about 5% of the general adult population.

If you are talking about the college educated, upper middle class to wealthy crowd in my age group, then the number is more like 10%.

As is so often the case on this board, George Orwell has some timeless wisdom for us:

• One of the few authentic class-differences, as opposed to class-distinctions, still existing in England is that the working classes age very much earlier. They do not live less long, provided that they survive their childhood, nor do they lose their physical activity earlier, but they do lose very early their youthful appearance. This fact is observable everywhere, but can be most easily verified by watching one of the higher age groups registering for military service; the middle- and upper-class members look, on average, ten years younger than the others. It is usual to attribute this to the harder lives that the working classes have to live, but it is doubtful whether any such difference now exists as would account for it. More probably the truth is that the working classes reach middle age earlier because they accept it earlier. For to look young after, say, thirty is largely a matter of wanting to do so.

George Orwell, The Art of Donald McGill, 1941