IMHO In My Humble Opinion

The Sacramento Bee just published an article on a recent Field Poll showing that a majority of Californians favor marriage equality, opposing proposition 8. I'm glad that my home state is showing signs of being sensible on this issue: giving same-sex couples the right to enter into a marriage will only strengthen the protections that California families have.

But I have to question something:

The highest percentage of respondents who opposed Proposition 8 in the poll were 18- to 29-year-olds (55 percent) and 50- to 64-year-olds (57 percent).

The latter demographic, [Field poll director Mark] DiCamillo said, "are people who grew up in the '60s and early '70s and they may be a little more tolerant to differences in lifestyles."

This "latter demographic" contains 19- to 29-year-olds. Meaning that they were born, at the earliest, in late 1978. Meaning that these people certainly didn't grow up in the '60s and early '70s...

As much as I hate to question the math skills of someone whose poll is showing a result in favor of my viewpoint, that just seems ridiculous. And the fact that the reporter simply reports it without, say, calling attention to the fact to the pollster he's quoting so he can correct himself?

I'm not even sure what to say.

correction: I'm the one who was dumb here. Somehow I missed the "and 50- to 64-year-olds" in that sentence when I was reading, which makes the article suddenly make sense.