In 2018, I wrote a post about a data visualisation showing that the age you consider ‘old’ is the square root of your age times 8. So if you are 25 you will consider 40 to be old. In brief, my main problem with the data visualisation was the low N (~200), i.e., the small […]
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At what age are people considered old?
At what age are people being described as being old? I saw the figure below getting a lot of attention on Twitter with the description: ‘As a kid my dad told me “The age you consider ‘old’ is the square-root of your age times 10”. At 9 you think 30 is old, at 16 you […]