Lab In The Wild: Interactive Age Test

[vi edit]

35 IRL but tested at 30. Will try again at home. There's some kind of funky hardware acceleration on my work laptop I can't seem to disable that is affecting my accuracy.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

28, Im 25

Felt more like a mouse speed test to me though, especially since the pattern on the spherical dots is always the same... Its just how fast you can get to them
I kept running out of mousepad while covering large distances

 

[Uppsala9496]

Said I am 30, I am 40.
My mouse is overly sensitive here at work so I was all over the damn place on the small circles.

 

[pontifex]

guessed 31 but I am 33, so pretty close.

 

[pontifex]

http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/mite/ 30/36

 

[highland145]

No idea what my score is but the site must be about 130 with the lag. May have even expired.

Edit: 31. I'm 49 but the final page timed out and the circle pattern may have helped. I'll do it again.
Edit2: 30.....Looking at the other scores/ages something's questionable. I know my motor skills are that good.

 

[wirednuts]

did the test then it said "ERROR WEBPAGE 404"

 

[datalink7]

Said I'm 29 but I'm 30.

 

[Imported]

Said 29, am 29. I wonder if I could get a better result at home. Shitty mouse/mousepad at work..

 

[techs]

Our best guess is that you are 10. Is it close?

WTF? I am 58

 

[Anubis]

it guessed 30
im 31

close enough

ill try again at home. mouse speed is going to have a lot to do with this

 

[Markbnj]

did the test then it said "ERROR WEBPAGE 404"

Damn, you're old.

 

[EliteRetard]

System seem to be broken...I did a few experiments of my own, and I found that simply opening a new tab from the same results page gave me 3 different results.

Its damn near impossible to get an answer outside 25-35, even then 28-32 is far more likely.

 

[EliteRetard]

http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/mite/ 30/36

Got 11.5% higher score than average.

I had no idea what half the words were.
I avoid direct eye contact.
Don't understand or feel most emotions.
I am legally and officially retarded.

How stupid does that make the average person?

 

[Jaskalas]

It said I'm 30, but I'm 27.

Really... mouse clicking / movement / tracking... speed... ffs. That's dependent on your affinity and accurate with your hardware / software settings. It's not exactly just between you and your reaction time.

There's an abstract layer between the two and I could easily double my "reaction" time with practice and settings adjustment.

 

[wirednuts]

Got 11.5% higher score than average.

I had no idea what half the words were.
I avoid direct eye contact.
Don't understand or feel most emotions.
I am legally and officially retarded.

How stupid does that make the average person?

i did exactly the same! i can be very social when needed, but i never want to. i dont do a lot of eye contact because i grew up in the hood. i understand most people emotions but i never give a shit.

 

[Markbnj]

It said I'm 30, but I'm 27.

Really... mouse clicking / movement / tracking... speed... ffs. That's dependent on your affinity and accurate with your hardware / software settings. It's not exactly just between you and your reaction time.

There's an abstract layer between the two and I could easily double my "reaction" time with practice and settings adjustment.

Maybe that's the kind of thing they're taking into account? They repeat a number of similar patterns, and rather than simply measuring how fast you are, they could also be measuring how your performance changes as you progress through the test.

But overall I agree, it doesn't seem like this is going to yield a valid metric, other than perhaps to say that older people play video games, and generally exercise their eye/hand coordination, less than younger people.

 

[Midwayman]

Off by seven years for me. Must be my mad fps skills yo.

 

[BoomerD]

I must have mad mousing skills.

It guessed that I'm 30...IRL, I'm pushing 60.

 

[Born2bwire]

It said I was a year younger. Oh you! :awe:

 

[Midwayman]

http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/mite/ 30/36

Yah... the women were much hard than the men to guess. Almost all skin texture was gone in the photos. 29/36 here.

 

[EliteRetard]

Why is it that all us socially awkward computer nerd/basement trolls are scoring higher than average in an emotions test? How can we, who rarely see other humans, guess feelings based on looks better than the average social folks?

Must be the emoticons :$

 

[kranky]

Was off by more than half my age!

 

[wirednuts]

Yah... the women were much hard than the men to guess. Almost all skin texture was gone in the photos. 29/36 here.

wait a min... 3 of us got 29/36? has anyone got anything different?

were all getting the same answers. i think this website is fixed

 

[IronWing]

I have the reflexes of someone 16 years younger. Obviously playing FPS 18 hours/day pays off.