# What is your "mental age"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708 "2013-12-06T21:41:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/121 "2016-08-06T15:07:02Z")
48/27 I’m shocked that it didn’t say six, which is what my husband always teased me about being. Hey, there’s nothing wrong with parades and amusement parks and fireworks and bugs and mismatched socks and finger painting… ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/122 "2016-08-06T15:31:29Z")
Real 54. Mental 29. And that includes being a coffee orderer after meals. I figured that one would boost me up a bit. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/123 "2016-08-06T15:37:56Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > Chronological: 48. Mental: 20. > > Not too surprising, that. I’ve always said that I feel like I’m stuck at 17. I figured 17 also but ended up with 16. I wasn’t trying for a low score, I was honest, it really does take effort for me to act like an adult. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/124 "2016-08-06T17:53:15Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Actual 63 ; Mental 24. > > Is this test reliable? How could it not be? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/125 "2016-08-06T23:15:48Z")
My mental age is 15 even though I said a pension was essential. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/126 "2016-08-07T18:54:19Z")
Real 64, mental 34. But the test is so old that I’m not sure of the responses. Miley Cyrus was considerably less over when the test was written. Happy with my score - but I age slowly. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/127 "2016-08-08T02:40:38Z")
Chronologically I’m 33. Mentally I’m 55. I mean, they pretty much nailed it. I’ve felt about 55 for my entire life, and currently many of my friends are thereabouts. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/128 "2016-08-08T18:08:44Z")
Dunno what I think about that test. Chronological age: 86 Mental age 27: ??? ---
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/129 "2016-08-08T18:50:37Z")
Some of the answers had a sort of UK slant to them. An “Ice Lolly”? Real Age 26. Mental Age 55 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/130 "2016-08-09T07:47:58Z")
Real age: 76 Mental age: 34 My father always said I was immature. ---
**Author:** ![ultimate11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/49beb7/32.png) [@ultimate11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultimate11)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/131 "2016-08-09T15:17:48Z")
Real age: 21 Mental age: 44? I guess I’m older than I appear. Another test [on this link](http://www.arealme.com/mental/en/) stated my mental age as 52. (Sophisticated) Is it wrong to have an older mental age? But I guess I’d do the same thing Clint Eastwood would do if he found intruders near his lawn (sans the shotgun, of course- I prefer tasers.) ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/132 "2016-08-09T15:51:52Z")
Actual age: 41, mentally: 33. Neat, I expected to be in the grandpa category. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/133 "2016-08-09T19:11:36Z")
Real: 46 Mental: 48 I really childish, but the questions brought the grown man in me. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/134 "2016-08-09T19:20:27Z")
Actual - 59 Mental - 46 Biological - 51( [http://www.biological-age.com/](http://www.biological-age.com/)) I think I’ll go with the 46. ---
**Author:** ![ultimate11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/49beb7/32.png) [@ultimate11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultimate11)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/135 "2016-08-23T05:34:37Z")
Real age = 21 Mental age = 48 (after a re-test) Biological age - 11?! I think that “Biological age test” is broken once you claim your birth year is 1994. (It is for me). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/136 "2016-09-01T20:19:22Z")
Real age=57 Mental age=33 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/137 "2016-09-01T20:50:31Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > 66/39. Yeah, I’m childish. I knew I liked you. My real age is 67/ mental 40. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/138 "2016-09-02T01:04:32Z")
Real age 46, mental age 41. That’s just about right. (Good thing I just visited the UK a month ago; otherwise, a few of the questions would have been a bit difficult to understand. “Ice lolly”??) ETA: Brodi noticed the same thing, a month ago. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/139 "2016-09-02T01:10:23Z")
> [@TYphoonSignal8](#): > > I am intrigued by the ages of most of the Dopers. A transition from early 2000s message boards to Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat never occurred? Many of us middle-aged-or-older Dopers use FB, too\*. Not so much other two thingamajigs you mentioned. \*I’ve even posted to the SDMB FB page – hybrid technology! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708/140 "2016-09-02T18:02:20Z")
Real age 48, mental 37. No surprise, kind of expected it to be younger, and I can’t say that I’ve changed much since I was 37. OTOH, I’m sometimes as silly as an 8 year old and sometimes grumpy as an octogenarian, so all in all the real mental age seems to be more like the median of those characteristics which a test like this cannot capture. But hey, it’s a fun test. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-mental-age/675708.md?page=8)