[Poll] Age Appropriate Clicking

[thefourthvine]

I'm reading a book that, well, it's good, but I'm getting that feeling I sometimes get, the sneaking suspicion that I am reading not essays but anthropology. Or xenology. My point is, the person who wrote this book is not like me. I'm pretty sure we're members of entirely different species, in fact.

And she keeps saying she talked to all her friends, and they all agree, and my basic thought there is, hey, maybe you should make some more friends. A social circle is more entertaining when you don't agree on everything.

Then it occurred to me that I should maybe check out her points of universal agreement with my friends (and acquaintances and people randomly browsing friends friends who are yearning to click on some buttons). So. A poll. Help me out, here, people, I am really truly curious.

Poll #6029 You're only as old as you click.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 721

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How old do you feel? Write in the number.

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How old are you?

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Under 13
0 (0.0%)

13 - 18
8 (1.1%)

19 - 24
136 (18.9%)

25 - 30
217 (30.1%)

31 - 40
238 (33.1%)

41 - 50
81 (11.2%)

51 - 60
37 (5.1%)

61 - 70
2 (0.3%)

71 - 80
0 (0.0%)

Over 80
1 (0.1%)

Now, how does the first number compare to the second?

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I feel younger than I am.
471 (65.9%)

I feel exactly the age that I am.
151 (21.1%)

I feel older than I am.
93 (13.0%)

Which is most true for you?

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I'm pretty happy with where I am in my life right now.
491 (68.8%)

Overall, I'm not so happy with where I am in my life right now.
223 (31.2%)

Which is most true for you?

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I've accomplished most of what I'd hoped to by now.
154 (21.5%)

I haven't accomplished most of what I hoped to by now.
301 (42.1%)

I never really had those kinds of hopes or plans.
260 (36.4%)

You can take a pill to look twenty years younger. (The way you, yourself, looked 20 years ago, I mean.) This does not affect health or functioning, just looks. Do you?

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Sure!
131 (18.2%)

No.
589 (81.8%)

Gender?

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Female
680 (94.3%)

Male
19 (2.6%)

Other
22 (3.1%)

Comments

[ahouseforrain]

I would totally take a pill in order to look ten. But only after figuring out enough stuff re: identity and legality issues that I could actually go back to elementary school.

Why? Because I think it would be hysterical, and it would leave me a lot of free time to write and study. Also, I might get a better grasp on how kids think and act if I'm forced to be in close company with them for long periods of time.

In case anybody was wondering how serious I am about my writing research.

[thefourthvine]

Okay, that is serious indeed. Because you'd have to go through adolescence again. The idea gives me cold sweats. *shudder*

[ahouseforrain]

Yeah, I'm a bit weird on that scale. Adolescence was the best period of my childhood (that I can remember, anyway).

...mostly, this says things about the years leading up to adolescence, rather than about my adolescence. But a lot of the things that went wrong for me then would, honestly, be fixed by information I have now. So.


But I wouldn't bother if it weren't for the research and time to write angle.