Due to recent changes in my lifestyle, I retook the test, which I had taken about a year ago… my chronological age was 27, my Real Age was 31.4…
Today:
Chronological Age: 27.1
Real Age: 23.1
And I feel it, too. I think the biggest change was the stress level, and frequency of exercising. The diet part is brand new, and didn’t look like it reflected much on my overall score, especially since my weight, BMI, etc hasn’t changed yet… cripes, what happens when the weight comes off? I’ll be 8!
How much do they add on for being a care-giver and having a seriously ill parent in the past year? I ask because the last time I did this the gap was about -3 years…
The thing said I’m 24.3. Of course, it also said my real age is 27, so I don’t know how much I trust it. (I’m 26. I’ll be 27 in a couple weeks, but still.)
Also, I noticed it seemed far more interested in my allergies than my back pain, the root cause of which is currently totally screwing up my plans to go into the Peace Corps. It didn’t ask me how fast it took me to use up my allotted chiropractor appointments (40 appointments in three months). It didn’t ask any questions that would have gone into this incredibly stupid, yet extremely painful problem I am having with my jaw at the moment.
Okay, I’m done whining. Suffice to say, I feel like I’m falling apart and this thing thinks I’m doing great because I don’t smoke? Lame.
It’s all a sham where they try to get you onto various mailing lists.
I’m sure we were all smart enough to click NO for everything on the first page? It said something like "which of these highly marketable subjects are you and/or your family interested in? (weight loss, making money, bigger dick)
Mods should probably slice the links.
Which of the links is that? The BBC link (which I used) never even had the temerity to suggest that I supply an e-mail address (or any other potentially identifying data other than D.o.B, gender and where I am in Britain… I said Scotland :D) – to all those who said it’s broken, BTW, it seems to be back up.
Have you EVER had a heart attack (coronary thrombosis, etc)?
Yes, an anterior heart attack
Yes, an inferior heart attack
Yes, not sure what kind
No I have angina
I don’t think I like the BBC one as much. Not only because it only thought I was one year younger (as opposed to 10), but it told me I needed to lose weight due to my BMI rating. If I lost another 5 lbs, I’d look like Skeletor. Then it told me I should exercise more, even though I already exercise an hour a day, 6 days a week.
Last time I checked was 4 years ago and it told me my real age was 4 years older than I was. This time it says I am 1.5 years Younger than I am. I’m going in the right direction at least.
I know that part of the changes are from having gotten married, and our moving and being unemployed now. (Fast food costs money while fruits and veggies are cheap, so you can guess what I’ve been eating lots of and not having a 3 hour commute every day sure cut back on my driving time and stress.)
But there are clearly some things wrong with this test… or at least that need to be tweaked by the user to get an accurate calculation…
I may be poly, but I am polymono, I don’t ‘sleep around indiscriminatly’, so I went back and said that I was monogamous with one partner.
I just moved away from my friends and family, but I stay in close contact with them via phone and e-mails. … actually I talk to them more often now than I did when I lived near them, so I also changed how many of them I ‘see’ at least once per month from none to 6-9.
Those two changes alone lowered my real age by part of a year.
As for the suggestions it makes at the end…
“Your RealAge is slightly older because you consume less than the average amount of unsaturated fats (mono- and polyunsaturated) in your diet.”
They certainly didn’t ask any questions about what type of oils we use in our kitchen, because they reccomend using olive or canola oil… exactly what we do use!
“FLOSS EVERY DAY”
Yeah, yeah… As I tell my dentist every time she mentions it… T’aint happening doc.
Eh, I’ve been a member of RealAge for forever and haven’t been aggressively marketed. I am signed up for some health updates but that’s all I get from them. I wouldn’t worry about it.
BTW, actual age 38.3, RealAge 34.2. It seems awfully hung up on me consuming 400 IU of vitamin E when the RDA is only 30…
I think the biggest change was the stress level, and frequency of exercising. The diet part is brand new, and didn’t look like it reflected much on my overall score, especially since my weight, BMI, etc hasn’t changed yet… cripes, what happens when the weight comes off? I’ll be 8!