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How old are you based on your reactions?

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Re: How old are you based on your reactions?

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Post by bsaul »

abetusk wrote: post #37

Unfortunately not a great experiment. The first time through I expected to see a 'stop' sign, so I was doing what I do when I drive, scanning the road, looking at signs, making sure the deer on the sides aren't going to jump out. When the 'STOP' flashed on the screen it took me by surprise because I was looking for a stop sign, not for what's essentially a pop-up to come out of nowhere. My reaction time was initially…

i think it's intended to work only the first time, when you're really surprised. i'm 37 as well and it guessed correctly.

Re: How old are you based on your reactions?

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Post by rodgerd »

jpmattia wrote: post #40
pcunite wrote: post #24

It said I was nine years younger than I truly am. I say it's doing a fine job. Let's not trouble the man too much.

Being told that I have the reaction time of an 18 year old at age 52 means that I believe this website dispenses the gods'-honest truth. I'm even inclined to ignore that the steering wheel is where none of the gods wanted it.

Apparently I have inhuman reactions. It must be scientific.

Meow.

Re: How old are you based on your reactions?

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Post by cjenken »

mdergosits wrote: post #5

I may be off here but, I found that when I had the window fullscreen the graphics were rendering very slowly and my reaction times were very slow. I then made the window smaller and the graphics were much smoother time and my reaction times were much better.

Monitor refresh rate also makes a difference. I have a monitor that I use for video editing work which is locked at 24Hz. My "age" is consistently older when putting the window on that monitor than my main monitor at 60hz.

Re: How old are you based on your reactions?

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Post by jrapdx3 »

I have to agree with the numerous comments, results of this "test" are way too dependent on hardware, platform, and other local variables. Was kind of fun though.

Using the keyboard, my reaction time "age" was in low 20's, much younger than my real vintage. Using mouse clicks, well now I'm 44 or so. My, how quickly one ages.

There is a serious side to such testing. Used under tightly controlled conditions similar tests have shown interesting results. For example, a number of studies report small but significant reaction time differences between kids with ADHD vs. without the disorder, though what that means is uncertain.

I've often thought a properly calibrated RT test of auto drivers would be useful. Readily observed that when the stop light goes from red to green, many drivers are quite slow on the uptake. Logically I wonder if a similar finding re: emergency braking might apply.

Hard to say how much RT differences are genetic vs. learned trait. In any case effects on traffic flow, or performance in critical situations probably have real-world meaning.

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