> As for our initial idea to make an age-guessing game, we have guessed right 51% of the time. Pretty much what we had expected .
Yeah... you thought I was 60. Seems from the comments this is a common thing.
You might want to check your algorithms. But then again, you do say in the end of the results that you need more 60+ year olds to help make this more accurate.
Also, a bone to pick. You claim that people get less random as they get older over 25, with 25 being the peak. I would wonder if maybe that has some correlation with the brain finally fully developing from adolescents into true/full adulthood. (Remember folks, we do call people 'young adults' for a while in their 20's.)
Also, while you make that claim about people as they get older, I still managed to get a coin flip result that was 13% more random than others at my age group of 33. Or something like that. I forget how it was worded exactly off hand this moment without going and checking again in my history. My point here is this.
If randomness declines with age past 25, but my score at age 33 is 13% more random than others in the same age range; then is it truly declining for everyone equally or is it just some people more rapidly than others?
I think this maybe correlates potentially with the findings of the trend disappearing once the non-random data is removed. (The all heads/all tails results.)
Anyways. With all this said, I do agree you need some more participants above the age of 60. Have you considered using facebook at all?
Did we read the same article? They aren't claiming those things at all. Those are the claims of the original study, which are being disputed by this attempt at reproduction. The writers suspect those claims to be false due to the choice of the original study to not remove likely intentionally non-random data.
I believe the 13% stat you saw is that your score had a higher random score than than 13% of other participants, so not very random.
Yeah... you thought I was 60. Seems from the comments this is a common thing.
You might want to check your algorithms. But then again, you do say in the end of the results that you need more 60+ year olds to help make this more accurate.
Also, a bone to pick. You claim that people get less random as they get older over 25, with 25 being the peak. I would wonder if maybe that has some correlation with the brain finally fully developing from adolescents into true/full adulthood. (Remember folks, we do call people 'young adults' for a while in their 20's.)
Also, while you make that claim about people as they get older, I still managed to get a coin flip result that was 13% more random than others at my age group of 33. Or something like that. I forget how it was worded exactly off hand this moment without going and checking again in my history. My point here is this.
If randomness declines with age past 25, but my score at age 33 is 13% more random than others in the same age range; then is it truly declining for everyone equally or is it just some people more rapidly than others?
I think this maybe correlates potentially with the findings of the trend disappearing once the non-random data is removed. (The all heads/all tails results.)
Anyways. With all this said, I do agree you need some more participants above the age of 60. Have you considered using facebook at all?