# Are you younger than you think? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2005, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960 "2005-07-18T09:53:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/41 "2005-07-19T16:50:03Z")
Of course, it’s entirely possible that someone with a very good “Real Age” score will still drop dead of a heart attack tomorrow, while someone with a poor score will continue to have a poor score until they die at age 97. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/42 "2005-07-19T19:34:27Z")
I got a Real Age of 44, three years less than my chronological age. I decided to be from East Anglia/Midlands–does that take in London? Cause that’s where I’d imagine myself living. In the height section I wonder if anyone actually does make the “3 meters” selection. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/43 "2005-07-19T20:23:50Z")
My chronological age: 20.5 years My “real age”: 21 years In all, not too bad. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/44 "2005-07-19T20:26:39Z")
My real age and calculated age matched exactly. Whoopdedo. Now, if I could have that 10 minutes back that it took to fill out the stupid forms, I would be 10 minutes younger and just as wise. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/45 "2005-07-19T23:52:38Z")
According to that quiz, I’m about four years older than my chronological age. I could improve that by lifting weights and having friends, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/46 "2005-07-20T00:21:35Z")
Chronological Age: 19.3 “Real Age”: 19.5 Yeah, I can deal with that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/47 "2005-07-20T00:50:14Z")
Chronological age: 26.8 Real age:26.7 I should exercise more and eat more healthfully. I knew that. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/48 "2005-07-20T07:00:48Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > I should exercise more and eat more healthfully. I knew that. It all boils down to this: Eat right. Excercise daily. Die anyway… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Highwayman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Highwayman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Highwayman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/49 "2005-07-20T09:38:11Z")
My real age: 33.5 RealAge®: 23.8 Remember to eat your beans. ---
**Author:** ![cabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@cabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cabdude)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/50 "2005-07-20T09:46:14Z")
I rigged it to do the maximum amount of exercise possible, and it STILL told me to exercise more :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/51 "2005-07-20T10:01:05Z")
Real age: 31.5 Tested age: 31.8 Unfreakinbelievable. I’m grossly overweight, and all… and it only adds 0.3 years? Even I’m not so optimistic as to think \*that’s \* correct. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/52 "2005-07-20T18:52:33Z")
Using the non-UK test: Calendar age: 56.6 “Real” age: 50.6 ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/53 "2005-07-21T02:57:11Z")
Calendar age: 22.1 “Real” age: 21.3 …I guess being boring is eventually going to pay off. ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/54 "2005-07-21T04:16:09Z")
Calendar age: 23.7 Real age: 31.6 Oh shit. I probably should do something about that…hmmmmm I wonder what the super smart annoying website will tell me to change… Apparently I suck at everything, for there is a list of at least 15 items. Yay me. To think…I always thought I was somewhat healthy. You know, never having been in the hospital or taken regular medications and whatnot. _runs away crying_ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960/55 "2005-07-21T07:09:09Z")
my age: 38.6 my “real” age: 37.2 my age in my head: 23 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-younger-than-you-think/312960.md?page=2)