Lab In The Wild: Interactive Age Test

[Markbnj]

Kind of interesting: http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/ag/

Researchers claim that by measuring reaction times they can figure out how old you are. In my case they missed by 18 years, measuring me at 34 when I am actually 52. I imagine that my game playing helps there.

Note that I had to refresh the link above to get the page to load. Also, the test is perhaps <5 minutes to complete.

I'm curious whether a high percentage of the people here, being extremely used to computers and mouse input, will score lower than their real age.

 

[tboo]

Off by 3 years for me

 

[darkewaffle]

Measured me as 31 and I'm 25. I feel like age is probably less relevant to this experiment than most other factors.

 

[Jeffg010]

29 i'm 40

Felt like I was clicking slow too.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Finished it and now it won't give me the result...

Edit: Finally gave me the result. It said I'm 30, which is accurate. Pretty nifty.

 

[child of wonder]

It thought I was 30. I'm 33.

 

[JTsyo]

Got my age right. In the beginning, I was overshooting the dots.

 

[Slew Foot]

guessed 30, actual 34. I wonder if it factors in misclicks.

 

[calvinbiss]

Guessed 29 and I am 33. It made it hard becuase I was not blinking and it messed up my contacts.

 

[PenguinPower]

Got my age exactly right.

 

[twinrider1]

31 and I'm 45.
Felt slow, but sped up when I learned the patterns.
The round pattern is a good trainer for proper wheel torquing technique.

 

[rasczak]

crap

 

[PottedMeat]

i guess they're getting hammered

mine was off by 4 younger

it said the test would be ~7 mins, it felt like less than a minute

 

[KidNiki1]

it said 29 and i am 42.

 

[nickbits]

Guessed 29 and I am 33.

Same here.

 

[NoCreativity]

Noticed I was slow to click when the dot locations were pre-defined and much quicker to click when they were random. It guessed 3 years younger.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Said I'm 33, I'm 30. I don't like touch pads though.

 

[Markbnj]

Noticed I was slow to click when the dot locations were pre-defined and much quicker to click when they were random. It guessed 3 years younger.

Initially I was faster on the random dots, but quickly realized the pattern in the wheel tests, which sped things up considerably. I wonder if how long it takes you to recognize the pattern is also factored in?

 

[gamefreakgcb]

Said I'm 29 but I'm 26.

 

[ViviTheMage]

off by 3 years...I am 25, listed me as 22

 

[God Mode]

It was off by 1 year.

 

[herm0016]

Said I'm 29 but I'm 26.

same here

 

[xanis]

I'm 24, it guessed 26. Not too bad.

 

[rasczak]

Finally got it to work.

Said I was 33, actual age is 38. Not bad.

Now I'm 30. I won't stop until I hit 21.

 

[rivan]

Felt slow, but sped up when I learned the patterns.

This.

It said I'm 31; I'm actually 40.