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joezydeco · 2023-10-09 09:04:41

Your "age" calculation is broken.

bpicolo | karma 6988 | avg karma 2.56 · | 2017-05-11 12:56:48

> they need to re-calibrate that and make it x3

They guessed 39 for me (I'm 25). The age bit seems not so accurate

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DarkmSparks | karma 434 | avg karma 1.04 · | 2020-07-13 06:52:38

They just forgot to define age as:

"born after 1800"

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zestyping | karma 2606 | avg karma 4.93 · | 2022-01-08 19:37:57

This calculates my age incorrectly. The diagram shows the number of years I've lived as about 3 years less than my true age. It's kinda disappointing when the site literally has one job — to calculate my age — and it doesn't get it right.

robjan | karma 3415 | avg karma 2.55 · | 2024-04-29 11:04:13

They fixed it by having a rolling "epoch" it just so happens that some people's ages don't fit that assumption.

robbintt | karma 406 | avg karma 1.74 · | 2021-11-06 10:22:10

It's ridiculous to use age in this way.

sneak | karma 23753 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2012-09-21 09:56:11+00:00

It is a bug to ignore the max-age parameter that is presently widely used.

c00p3r | karma 138 | avg karma 0.18 · | 2010-08-18 11:05:55

Age is a wrong explanation.

the_gastropod | karma 2449 | avg karma 2.69 · | 2017-01-11 22:11:50+00:00

Looks like there's an off-by-one error with ages

Camillo | karma 3406 | avg karma 3.17 · | 2015-01-13 15:55:31

This is worthless unless they correct for age. Which they most likely don't, since age is not even mentioned in the post.

Scybert | karma 0 | avg karma 0.0 · | 2012-01-26 00:33:11+00:00

This programmer is broken. The part that made it necessary to state an age.

IshKebab | karma 13023 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2022-05-01 05:30:20

The entire point of this is that their age estimate is totally random.

nsxwolf | karma 12014 | avg karma 3.2 · | 2024-02-01 16:45:21

Validating ages/birthdates based on plausible human lifespans is, frankly, dumb.

bradlys | karma 4863 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2022-12-31 13:56:04

Just look at age bar charts and you’ll see this isn’t accurate for developed countries…

djbender | karma 106 | avg karma 1.08 · | 2013-07-17 12:34:15

Age is only a number.

pawelk | karma 515 | avg karma 2.88 · | 2022-07-05 09:26:50

Same here. I selected my real age and the algorithm thinks I'm 7 years younger than that (well, thanks I guess, but it is not me who's not telling the truth).

supertrope | karma 2072 | avg karma 1.58 · | 2020-07-12 16:37:17

GuB-42 | karma 15915 | avg karma 4.0 · | 2021-05-12 12:45:06+00:00

Actually, it is "&& age >= 30", I guess there is some HTML messup somewhere.

kelipso | karma 902 | avg karma 1.15 · | 2023-06-29 10:24:54

The more reality denying part is when you ignore that age is calculated on distance and not counting.

barbecue_sauce | karma 1603 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2019-06-12 22:51:29

30 is still pretty young, but your math is off.