Mental Age

[Lady_X]

apparently i'm 41

 

[SolitaryWalker]

43.

 

[foolish heart]

23/42

 

[Sniffles]

I'm only 48 Years Old.

 

[Walking Tourist]

It's a silly test. I am 60 years old! (not really) OK. I don't like loud music or speeding cars. The test makes too many assumptions to be taken seriously.

 

[Queen Kat]

Real age: 18 Years Old.
Mental age: 33 Years Old.

Now I understand why I always got in fights with my peers!

 

[Halfjillhalfjack]

I am also 47...... good lord..... that means I'm 20 years ahead of my time.... I don't know if this is a good sign.....but....but.....I said I wanted to go to Disneyland.....pf.....however, it's good to know that my brain is already 47, which means I don't have to get any wise until I actually reach the bodily age of 47.....

 

[Stanton Moore]

55! Time to join AARP...

 

[Nighthawk]

Mental Age: 59
Actual Age: 48

Most of my friends are younger than me, by 10-20 years ... mostly due to my work environment having a younger demographic, and me being online a lot. I do have a small group of friends my age who have been with me through high school, but I don't communicate with them very much. As previous posters have stated, I sometimes find my own age group too judgemental to really associate with comfortably. Many of them are managers ... I'm a techie ... and the two don't mix very well.

 

[Amargith]

37...9 years older than i'm supposed to be. Damn and here i thought I'd stay 19 forever

 

[Phantonym]

The test gave me a mental age of 48. Weeeelll...I might have been/did feel like that in my teens but now... I think I'm either getting mentally younger in a good way (maybe?) as I age or I peaked in my teens and it's as good as it's ever going to get and it's down hill from here on. Interesting.

As for the OP: *crickets chirping*

 

[SolitaryWalker]

Most people here receive test results claiming that they are much older than they truly are as nearly all of them want to see themselves as wise and mature.

 

[disregard]

43

 

[Snuggletron]

this is kind of stupid.

 

[SolitaryWalker]

this is kind of stupid.

I don't think that there is any need for the 'kind of' palliative platitude. Just say it is stupid and period. This isn't something that is possibly imbecilic or only somewhat obtuse; it is idiotic all the way through.

 

[Phantonym]

I don't think that there is any need for the 'kind of' palliative platitude. Just say it is stupid and period. This isn't something that is possibly imbecilic or only somewhat obtuse; it is idiotic all the way through.

What exactly? The idea posed in the OP or the test?

 

[Snuggletron]

I don't think that there is any need for the 'kind of' palliative platitude. Just say it is stupid and period. This isn't something that is possibly imbecilic or only somewhat obtuse; it is idiotic all the way through.

ok

 

[SolitaryWalker]

What exactly? The idea posed in the OP or the test?

Both, but more so the test. The association of mental age with IQ testing was unwarranted from the start. The original tests assessed a person's knowledge of the American culture more than anything else. Robert Yerkes was notorious for creating tests containing such howlers.

Today, the examinations have improved to emphasize problem solving and abstract reasoning more, yet the exercises they offer are still far too simplistic to measure a person's true intellectual abilities or even less potential. Strikingly, the official IQ test still contains questions of basic mathematics and facts regarding politics and culture.

That is so mostly because a person of merely average intelligence can too easily learn to solve those problems by route just as he can attain a BA or an MA whilst having learned little and only slightly improved his skills in scholarship.

In order to measure a person's true intelligence, we'd need a test that forces a person to solve recondite, theoretical problems rather than puzzles the range of difficulty of which does not exceed that of common-place crossword challenges. Obviously, Albert Einstein is to be regarded as a genius because of his superb abilities to understand and create abstract ideas and not solving simple puzzles with a lightning speed.

Today, the view that IQ tests could be manipulated by their test-takers is quite common among practicing psychologists and has become prominent as one of many criticims of the Bell Curve authored by Herrnstein and Murray.

 

[rogue1]

30/45

Yep...thats about where I fit. Most of my friends are that age or older.

 

[rogue1]

Most people here receive test results claiming that they are much older than they truly are as nearly all of them want to see themselves as wise and mature.

....or maybe some people are just calm, and don't like rock concerts...or talking on the phone all night.

Food for thought