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Harvard wants to test your age!

Discussion in 'PC Discussion' started by Ched, Apr 20, 2013.

  1. Paranoid Android

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    I got age 45 so I'd say it's fairly accurate it's only 28 years off.

    Apparently there is sixty factors which help to decide your age. The test also looks at the shape of the movement when the mouse is traveling to the circles as well the tiny pause between clicks.
     
  2. World

    World Oberstgruppenführer DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    28 vs 26 real age on the clicking one. At the end they say they measure more than 30 factors, rather than just time.

    Got 31/36 on the other.
     
  3. Perspicacity

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    Impressive. The guess was 41; my age is 42.

    I took the test with a trackpad mouse configured for my left hand (I'm right handed, but mouse with my left because of an old shoulder injury.)
     
  4. Darje

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    I wonder if perhaps accuracy and patience are being used as a criteria to measure your maturity in this test, rather than it being one of speed and reflexes.
     
  5. Clerith

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    They say 30, I'm 23. I was mostly annoyed by the predictable circle movement.
     
  6. Perspicacity

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    I suspect there's some of that. As one who scored rather high in age (though close to my chronological age), I'd note that I tend to click deliberately with little overshoot on my mousing, slowing a bit for the smaller dots and higher required precision. Also, for the circular clicking patterns that repeat, anticipating the repeating patterns allows for some economy of movement.

    My social intelligence score came out 27/36, right at the median. I possibly spend too much time around research scientists and engineers, for whom the prevailing emotions seem to be somewhat limited and dampened compared with most of society.
     
  7. Bucks

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    It said I was 42, I'm 23. I got 24 in the social test which is only a little bit below average.
     
  8. Peteks

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    Got 29 in the age test and 33/36 on the social intelligence one. Tried the age test again and got 20, though I didn't notice doing it much faster at all. The social intelligence one was amusing at least.
     
  9. blab

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    I'm twenty, and the test guessed I was 32. Meh, I sucked.

    Social intelligence 32/36. It was only sure about half the images. Young eyes were harder than old ones, female harder than male ones. All young female ones were obviously fantasizing/interested/flirtatious, though.
     
  10. ketz3r

    ketz3r Second Year

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    Huh. Am I the only one whose age they predicted accurately?
     
  11. Myst

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    They called me 10 when I'm really 23. And no, I did not use a touch screen :/
     
  12. Darth Disaster

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    It guessed 30. I'm 27.
     
  13. coleam

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    They thought I was 38 - I'm 23. I wonder if my low mouse sensitivity had anything to do with it?
     
  14. Skeletaure

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    I think I misunderstood the instructions. I thought the idea was to try to click as many times on each dot as possible, which doesn't sound like what you guys did...

    Anyway, it guessed my age as 29 lol.

    Got 31/36 on the social intelligence test.
     
  15. Republic

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    It was 15 years off, but it is an interesting experiment.
     
  16. Anarchy

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    Said 26 when I'm 24. Not bad, I suppose.
     
  17. Anme

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    Similar to a lot of people here, I got 30, but I am only 21. I had 29 on the social intelligence test.

    Another test on the site is about the lenght of lines, absolute and relative (Are you more American or Japanese?).
    Anyone else did this one? I scored 99 on the first task which was where you had to remember the relative size while I only scored 49 on remembering the absolute size of the line. Supposedly Americans are better at the second task, which I honestly find strange because to me, it seems a lot harder.
     
  18. Darth Disaster

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    31/36 on Social Intelligence Test. That was kind of fun.
     
  19. Riley

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    Mine was 47 and I'm 21.
     
  20. CrackedMind

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    I'm 15, it said I was 33. Wut