My guess - this experiment has nothing to do with the clicks, but rather is trying to measure something else. Something like the amount of time people take on breaks, plotted against the amount of time people spent reading the instructions. Or something like that.
Click on a few dots and our program will guess your age
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#42Got it right on the money. Spooky.
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#43It thinks I'm 42.
I'm 21. Something must be wrong with me.
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#44I'm 30, it guessed 10.
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#45I used a MS trackball (thumb operated) and it read me as 9 years younger than my actual age. I expected the trackball to be a significant handicap, but maybe it's not? It certainly felt like I was struggling to hit the targets, with plenty of overshoot.
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#46It's probably a privacy test to see if they can get personal information out of test takers online simply by making you feel it's relevant to the test.
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#4731 ... I'm over 50. And I don't feel particularly dextrous.
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#48I'm 30, it guessed 10.
I'm 33, also got 10.
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#49return 30 if referer == 'https://news.ycombinator.com/
Is it close?
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#50It thinks I'm 42. I'm 21. Something must be wrong with me.
You/are are almost directly inverted in terms of age/score.