What's with the change of title to add "scientists react with fear"?
As a scientist, I react with skepticism and the depressing knowledge that a bunch of people are going to put far more stock in these test results than they deserve. Is your "true age" any better than the one I'd get out of Wii Fit?
The only way I could support this is if it comes with some very careful statistical analysis and a comparison to the actuarial tables of the general population. Don't tell me how many more years I should expect to live, but tell me the chance that I'll be dead by 2021, 2031, 2041 et cetera, with proper error bars, and how that compares to the longevity of the general population of my gender.
Would you take the test and be curious about the results?
"Scientists" proposing "ethical restrictions" on tests because they fear the public is archaic thinking, and it's half of what I got out of the article.
As a scientist, I react with skepticism and the depressing knowledge that a bunch of people are going to put far more stock in these test results than they deserve. Is your "true age" any better than the one I'd get out of Wii Fit?
The only way I could support this is if it comes with some very careful statistical analysis and a comparison to the actuarial tables of the general population. Don't tell me how many more years I should expect to live, but tell me the chance that I'll be dead by 2021, 2031, 2041 et cetera, with proper error bars, and how that compares to the longevity of the general population of my gender.