Ship of Fools: The mind of a two year old?

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Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :

Normally I don't rate these sort of quizzes much but on this my mental age appears to match that of my body! That's reassuring...kind of...

My Mental Age Test

Anyone else match up? Or wildly different?

Posted by Imaginary Friend (# 186) on :

Mentally, it turns out that I am roughly half as old again as my chronological age. Not quite sure how to take that, as I can see both pros and cons to the situation.

Wait, that might be why I got the result I did...

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

Mt mental age is apparently eleven years older than my physical age.

This explains a lot.

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

Two years younger than I actually am.

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

22 years less than my real age -- I guess I'm not such an old fogey.

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

Exactly HALF my current age - which, via this quiz, makes me many years younger than Marvin!

[Two face]

Posted by Pearl B4 Swine (# 11451) on :

Exactly THIRTY years less than my age. Clearly, I'm in my second childhood. Where am I again, and WHO are YOU ??

Pearlie

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

Eight years younger than my current age - how on earth did I manage that when I know the square root of diddly-squat about modern technology?

And I had to lie in the TV question - they didn't include Top Gear as one of the options ... [Big Grin]

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

I wish my bod was my mental age. [Frown]

Posted by Ad Orientem (# 17574) on :

33. Five years younger than my real age.

Posted by Jane R (# 331) on :

12 years younger than my chronological age, despite the fact that there was no option describing my real opinion of David Cameron (=shifty. And overweight).

Posted by Edith (# 16978) on :

28 years younger than my c age, and I thought I was getting old. Yeah

Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :

It thinks I'm 39. I'm not 39. Not even close.

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

one year younger than my calendar age. uncanny!

Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :

8 years younger than my real age

Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :

16 years younger than my real age

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

My mental age is 40.

That'll do nicely!

[Big Grin]

Posted by ken (# 2460) on :

20 years younger than mine

Do you think it possible that e quiz is a load of bollocks just slapped up to attract people to a site that's trying to advertise pensions?

Surely not!

Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :

12 years older than my real age. In some ways it is an underestimate, and in some ways an overestimate. I have mellowed greatly about pop music that doesn't fit my ideal. At the same time, the "a baseball hat looks best forward or backward" didn't represent my true old man feelings about baseball hats. (If you are over the age of 18, don't wear one unless you are out in the woods or actually, you know, playing baseball.)

Posted by ElaineC (# 12244) on :

11 years younger than my real age.

Posted by tessaB (# 8533) on :

Same age as Boogie! Rather nice to be thought younger for a change.

Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :

Interesting. Not that I want to be 41 again, though.

Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on :

13 years younger. I knew sometimes when I was answering young, avoiding answers like "make sure you pee before leaving the restaurant".

A quiz that dated our slang expressions. On the peeing question, went out for supper and one of the party got up and said "have to spend a penny". No-one under 50 seemed to know what that meant. Inflation?

Posted by comet (# 10353) on :

I fully expected to be 12, but my answers regarding television and britney spears probably aged me. I came out as 32. I'm a playful curmudgeon, really.

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
13 years younger. I knew sometimes when I was answering young, avoiding answers like "make sure you pee before leaving the restaurant".

A quiz that dated our slang expressions. On the peeing question, went out for supper and one of the party got up and said "have to spend a penny". No-one under 50 seemed to know what that meant. Inflation?

I can't believe you once went to restaurants that had coin operated toilets.

(But then I remember a long ago CA state election where the outlawing of pay toilets played a prominent role. [Hot and Hormonal]

)

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

Result!

A full 20 years lower than my birth certificate would have you believe. YESSSS!! [Yipee]

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

4 years older than my real age. I meet Mr. C. in the middle between the difference in our ages. Which, of course, is as it should be.

Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :

I year older than my real age.

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

It looks like Comet and I are twins!

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

I did it a second time but this time answered as I thought an older person would answer and came out at 55 when I am really 64!

Posted by comet (# 10353) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
It looks like Comet and I are twins!

the resemblance is uncanny!

Posted by Jane R (# 331) on :

no prophet:

quote:
13 years younger. I knew sometimes when I was answering young, avoiding answers like "make sure you pee before leaving the restaurant".

But if you answer yes to that question it could mean EITHER that you are old enough to have continence problems OR that you are very young and your parents don't want you wetting your pants in ten minutes' time.

Same with the keys question. If you always put them down in the same place you could be in the early stages of Alzheimer's... or you could just be a control freak who likes to know where everything is.

Was it a pensions site? I didn't notice...

Posted by Stejjie (# 13941) on :

It says I'm 40, 5 1/2 years older than my current age.

What's worrying about that is when I first saw that I thought it was 7 years older than my age (I was thinking I'm still 33) - it was a bit of a shock when I realised it was only 5 1/2.

NOOOOOOO!!! [Eek!]

Posted by The Rogue (# 2275) on :

Mentally I am seven years younger than my body. Will there come a point where my brain catches up?

Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :

Mine is fifteen years younger. That's OK! [Big Grin]

Or, does it mean I haven't learned anything in the last decade and a half? [Paranoid]

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

My mind is 6 years older than it's supposed to be.

Last time I did something like this for my body, it was 4 years younger than it was supposed to be. So there's a full decade gap there.

This is not news. Although with a severe lack of gym time lately, the body is probably catching up to the mind instead of the other way around...

Posted by Pooks (# 11425) on :

I came out 10 years younger than my real age. Then I fell over laughing when my 17 year old son took the test and came out as 43.

Posted by Scots lass (# 2699) on :

I came out as 32.

I am, in fact, 32. Given the results of everyone else, I find the accuracy more un-nerving than anything else!

Posted by pimple (# 10635) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pearl B4 Swine:
Exactly THIRTY years less than my age. Clearly, I'm in my second childhood. Where am I again, and WHO are YOU ??

Pearlie

Snap! We should meet up. Your place or mine?

Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on :

not bad, it says I am 41 when I am 44.

Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :

5 years younger than my actual age.

Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on :

Mentally, I'm 20 years younger than my chronological age. However, I'm 10 years older than my physical fitness age. (which is half my chronological age).

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

Another one 20 years younger than chronological age. And there were one or two questions where there wasn't an answer I wanted to give - like JaneR, particularly the prime minister question.

TV question, piglet? What TV question?

Posted by pjl (# 16929) on :

22 years younger for me.
Do not like being told to 'grow up' but quite like 'oh' he will never grow up'

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

48. I wouldn't mind being 48 again.

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

48 was pretty good, I'd just been given early retirement on the grounds of ill-health.

Posted by Pulsator Organorum Ineptus (# 2515) on :

I was rather pleased to come out at 42 being as how I am actually 59.

This may partly be down to my having to select an answer at random to some of the questions. E.g. the Britney Spears question where the correct answer would be "I don't know anything about this band" [Snigger]

And if I were planning a house party, my principal concern would be that it be in somebody else's house. Nothing else matters.

[ 25. November 2013, 10:37: Message edited by: Pulsator Organorum Ineptus ]

Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :

42. Three years older than my real age. (But it took me a while to remember how old I am).

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

...but can you remember your own name?

Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :

Three years younger than my real age.

Posted by Evensong (# 14696) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
...but can you remember your own name?

Most days. [Big Grin]

Posted by Alban (# 9047) on :

12 years older.
If they'd let me put the real answers to some of the questions, instead of pigeonholing me, I suspect I'd've been older still.

Posted by bib (# 13074) on :

Not sure of the significance of being mentally 22 years younger the my chronological age. Maybe I'm in my second childhood. [Yipee]

Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :

Mentally 39, feels right for me. 20 years younger than my physical age!

Posted by Lucia (# 15201) on :

It's funny how most people are happy to come out younger than their physical age. Clearly we perceive ourselves as young at heart rather than being immature, and see coming out as older mentally as being 'an old fogey' rather than a badge of maturity! [Biased]

Posted by The5thMary (# 12953) on :

Nine years younger than I actually am.

Posted by Niteowl (# 15841) on :

I don't usually do quizzes, but this one pulled me in. My mind is apparently a decade younger than my mind. I would've guessed a lot younger. There goes my pledge to never to grow up.

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

Nearly twenty years younger than my actual age. Schooldays teaching the little fellows keeps me young. Teaching teenagers would give me heart attacks! Age = 43.

Posted by St Everild (# 3626) on :

15 years younger than my chronological age...yay!

Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :

2 years younger. Mental.

Posted by SvitlanaV2 (# 16967) on :

Just two years younger than my real age. Which is fair enough.

Posted by pimple (# 10635) on :

How's about our own quiz here? One question. How old, given the results above, is the compiler? [i don't know how you akcherley post a quiz].

Posted by leo (# 1458) on :

My mental age was 20 years younger than my 'real' age.

Does that mean that I am immature?

That I am trendy?

Posted by Scarlet (# 1738) on :

Mine was 40. Far below my natural age.

I couldn't really answer the 'house party' question, since I would never have one; which was not a choice.

Actually, I believe mentally I am stuck in my 20's.

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