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Harvard wants to test your age!

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

  1. Probellum

    Probellum Death Eater

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    Said I was I was 31, which is like a decade off.
     
  2. Siflet

    Siflet Third Year

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    predicted 26 and i'm 25 not bad.
     
  3. Sacrosanct

    Sacrosanct Auror

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    Said I was 30, I'm 18. And I live in Australia, I have to fight off funnel web spiders and taipan ties all the time according to reddit, you'd think my reflexes would be faster.
     
  4. Kai Shek

    Kai Shek Supreme Mugwump

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    Guessed 30, I'm 24. Kind of have a shitty mouse though(Too small for hand)

    and 31 of 36 on the Social Intelligence test. Seems like a common score.
     
    Last edited: Apr 21, 2013
  5. Alindrome

    Alindrome A bigger, darker mark DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    First time I did it I tried to be really quick and ended up overshooting and misclicking a lot. Said I was 29.

    Second test I took it more carefully and didn't misclick. Said I was 31.

    I'm 18 - if it's of any note, I wonder how the mouse sensitivity settings affect this test? I always have my mouse turned to the most sensitive setting so only a tiny flick sends me across the screen. Do people with slower mice get different scores?
     
  6. Klackerz

    Klackerz Bridgeburner

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    29 in the first test. I am 22.

    28/36 in the second test.
     
  7. Castiel

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    Was their guess correct for anyone in the 18-22 age group so far?
     
  8. MonkeyEpoxy

    MonkeyEpoxy The Cursed Child DLP Supporter

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    Took it once a half hour ago and it was close. I'm 22 and it guessed 23

    took it again just now after the blunt and it said I aged 15 years. I laughed
     
  9. oephyx

    oephyx Headmaster DLP Supporter

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    Age test is useless.

    The social test is interesting. I got 29 right, I expected a lot worse.
     
  10. Alindrome

    Alindrome A bigger, darker mark DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    As for that social engineering test, I got thirty. Maybe it was just me, but this seriously freaked me out - the women's eyes had no emotion in them. They were largely all just neutral or 'I'm looking sexy for the camera' expressions. I just felt like assigning that shit any emotion at all was straight up lying.
     
  11. Ash

    Ash Moves Like Jagger DLP Supporter

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    I dunno, a huge portion of them were looking flirtatious, but there were a few that looked confident/nervous/contemplative. Still, I did feel like the women had less variance in their expressions.

    Oh, I got 32, also. I wish they told me which ones I got wrong.
     
  12. Alindrome

    Alindrome A bigger, darker mark DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    So they were looking pretty much blank and the choices were something like 'terrified' 'aghast' 'shocked' 'enraged'. And I'd always just go for the least emotive of those since it was like shoving a square into a round hole.

    I have to wonder if they'd get more accurate results if they had the same large spectrum of emotions to pick from rather than just four different ones each time so people would have to look at the eyes to see which emotion they thought they were before looking at the words to see which one fit best.
     
  13. Skeletaure

    Skeletaure Magical Core Enthusiast ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    I also wish they told us which ones we got wrong. Because I interpreted pretty much every woman's expression as "desire".
     
  14. Castiel

    Castiel Headmaster

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    Well, I was getting ready to write up a program to brute force through the entire thing to get the right answers. Thankfully I decided to check the source code first.

    Yep, all the right answers in order.

    Your score on this test was 36 out of 36. xD
     
    Ash
  15. Shinysavage

    Shinysavage Madman With A Box ~ Prestige ~

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    Age test put me at 29. I'm 25, so not too bad I suppose...
     
  16. Zennith

    Zennith Pebble Wrestler ~ Prestige ~

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    I used a touchpad and it guessed I was ten. I'm a pretty strong starcraft player though :p
     
  17. Zerg_Lurker

    Zerg_Lurker Headmaster DLP Supporter

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    Got 51 on the age test using a trackpad, I didn't figure out the pattern on the circle until the very end. Well, I'm certainly feeling that old right now :|