# How old is she? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 26, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562 "2008-11-26T15:36:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/41 "2008-11-26T19:39:42Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > šŸ˜• > > I have other thoughts on this issue, but I keep wondering about this. Why do you say itā€™s probably the only shirt the mother could find in her size? T-shirts are available for women in every size including plus sizes, and of course T-shirts are not low-cut. Showing cleavage is never necessary for any girl or woman of any size. It was a nicer outfit than just a t-shirt. We were invited to their class for Thanksgiving brunch. A couple of the kids (mostly the girls) dressed up a bit, although most (like mine) were just their typical grungy self. Think a not particularly low cut v-neck with breasts behind it. This girl was about 5 feet 4-6 inches tall and probably in the 120-135 pound range (my best guess). By comparison most kids in that class are about 4 feet 5 to 10 inches tall and well under 100 pounds at that age. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/42 "2008-11-26T19:40:00Z")
I think that a single pixilated, slanted, out of focus picture really canā€™t allow us to make accurate assumptions about that the age of the person in the picture, let alone widespread assumptions about the budding pubescence of the population at large. ---
**Author:** ![Jesus\_Harold\_Christ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@Jesus\_Harold\_Christ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesus_Harold_Christ)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/43 "2008-11-26T19:44:57Z")
Fine donā€™t put on the street. Send her to military school. ---
**Author:** ![Jesus\_Harold\_Christ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@Jesus\_Harold\_Christ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesus_Harold_Christ)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/44 "2008-11-26T19:46:08Z")
Wrong thread ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/45 "2008-11-26T19:46:52Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > No, im saying for thousands of years teenagers have been considered old enough to marry and have children, its only in the last 100 years or so that we decided they were still children and started infantilizing them. Ah, okay. That makes more sense. Your previous post had me go ā€œHuh?ā€ but I was pretty sure I was misinterpreting. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/46 "2008-11-26T19:48:15Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > I think that a single pixilated, slanted, out of focus picture really canā€™t allow us to make accurate assumptions about that the age of the person in the picture, let alone widespread assumptions about the budding pubescence of the population at large. Sure, but cā€™mon, youā€™d have guessed older than 12 right? I did. Thereā€™s a thing going on these days that I usually notice at the mall where everyone is attempting to appear between the ages of 18-21. Younger girls, older women, itā€™s getting hard to really tell anymore from a glance which is the mom and which is the daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/47 "2008-11-26T20:18:43Z")
Without reading the spoiler boxes, Iā€™d guess 14 or so. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/48 "2008-11-26T22:09:13Z")
I woudl have guessed somewhere between 13-15. The style of pic, her hairstyle, etc. all scream ā€œMyspace teenager trying to look sexy and grown-upā€. > [@DigitalC](#): > > And you donā€™t imagine the reason that mentally they are still children might be because they are treated as children? Actually, research has been done that has found that the frontal lobe of the brain (which governs high-level functions like a personā€™s good judgment) does not fully mature until the age of 25. Teenagersā€™ underdeveloped brains just didnā€™t MATTER as much in earlier eras, since the only point of human existence back then was to live long enough to pop out babies. Nowadays, life is more complicated. We also live in less cohesive, more permissive communities, which makes it easier for youngsters with poor judgment to get themselves into trouble than back when everyone in town knew what you were up to and there were rigid social mores to obey. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/49 "2008-11-26T22:13:26Z")
I guessed 14. Seems I was pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/50 "2008-11-26T22:24:34Z")
Iā€™m not a police officer. Iā€™m Chris Hansen, and youā€™re on Dateline NBC. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/51 "2008-11-26T22:54:04Z")
Well, at least it isnā€™t _Cops_ again. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/52 "2008-11-26T23:21:39Z")
She looks about 12 or 13. Iā€™ll guessā€¦12. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/53 "2008-11-26T23:30:01Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > Iā€™m not a police officer. Iā€™m Chris Hansen, and youā€™re on Dateline NBC. Why donā€™t you take a seat over there? _points_ ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/54 "2008-11-27T00:20:51Z")
Havenā€™t read the other posts. Itā€™s a little hard to tell with the quality of the picture, but Iā€™d guess 13 or 14 years old. After posting, I went back and read the spoiler boxes. Iā€™m not surprised to read by her age. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/55 "2008-11-27T00:35:05Z")
Are people saying how old they think she is, or how old she looks? Because of the nature of the OP, I had a feeling she was only going to be very young, but I still felt she looked old enough to be a late teenager. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/56 "2008-11-27T00:57:28Z")
about 14. Ahh, I see that I wasnā€™t far off. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/57 "2008-11-27T01:34:18Z")
Wow, could you have linked to a crappier picture? Some of the lighting around her eyes makes me want to say 17, and something about the line of her cheeks makes me want to say late 20s. Itā€™s really hard to tell, though. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/58 "2008-11-27T05:05:20Z")
31, without looking at any of the other guesses. During the summer we stopped at a restaurant near Quincy, CA. Sitting at the table facing me was a woman and what I assume was her daughter. She was without a doubt one of the most attractive young ladies Iā€™ve ever seen. Every time I looked at her she was a different age, never did pin it down. My estimate for her was somewhere between 13 and 26, and Iā€™m not kidding. ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/59 "2008-11-27T05:40:12Z")
Iā€™m guessing 15. Now to read the thread and see how far off I am. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562/60 "2008-11-27T14:22:58Z")
> [@Justin\_Credible](#): > > She looks about 12 or 13. Iā€™ll guessā€¦12. That was my guess too. I had thought it looked like a younger kid who was trying to look like she was sixteen, but was till too young to figure out how to make a pouty face not look goofy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-is-she/474562.md?page=4)