Average Age of an AARoads Forum user.

[Roadgeekteen]

For cursive, I believe that reading cursive is an important skill because of historic documents. Writing it I see less of a use for.

[Rothman]

For cursive, I believe that reading cursive is an important skill because of historic documents. Writing it I see less of a use for.

How many of us read historic documents written in cursive on a regular basis?

I do not.

[Roadgeekteen]

For cursive, I believe that reading cursive is an important skill because of historic documents. Writing it I see less of a use for.

How many of us read historic documents written in cursive on a regular basis?

I do not.

How many of use knowledge of the crusades on a regular basis? How many of us use chemistry on a regular basis?

[kalvado]

For cursive, I believe that reading cursive is an important skill because of historic documents. Writing it I see less of a use for.

How many of us read historic documents written in cursive on a regular basis?

I do not.

How many of use knowledge of the crusades on a regular basis? How many of us use chemistry on a regular basis?

How many of us believe that k-12 curriculum needs no changes at all?

[wxfree]

I reluctantly have to agree that reading cursive is still useful, but I see no reason to teach writing it.  I always hated it.  I stopped writing in cursive in school as soon as it was no longer required.  Writing it legibly take too much effort.  I never use it now except for a signature, which is barely more than a scribble and rarely similar to previous signatures.  I almost never write at all these days.  My hand starts to hurt when I fill out a slip at the bank.

I'd never thought about my average age before, but it's a little more than half of my current age.  It looks like as you get older, the average gets closer to half.  When you're 2 years old, 1+2=3 and 3/2=1.5, so your average age is close to your current age.  It gets further as the years add up.

[Scott5114]

I don't think you can "average" the age of one person, because it is not actually an integer that only updates once a year, but rather a floating-point duration that is  constantly increasing. For example, today I am 32.60821917808219178082 years old, tomorrow I will be 32.6109589041095890411, and so on and so forth.

[JayhawkCO]

I don't think you can "average" the age of one person, because it is not actually an integer that only updates once a year, but rather a floating-point duration that is  constantly increasing. For example, today I am 32.60821917808219178082 years old, tomorrow I will be 32.6109589041095890411, and so on and so forth.

Nerd

[US 89]

I don't think you can "average" the age of one person, because it is not actually an integer that only updates once a year, but rather a floating-point duration that is  constantly increasing. For example, today I am 32.60821917808219178082 years old, tomorrow I will be 32.6109589041095890411, and so on and so forth.

Well, you could...it'd just be half of whatever that floating point number is at that instant

[hotdogPi]

Unless you've traveled at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light for any time, or if you live in Georgia where life legally begins at -0.65 years old.

[US71]

Of course in Japan, you are considered oneyear old at birth,

[kalvado]

I don't think you can "average" the age of one person, because it is not actually an integer that only updates once a year, but rather a floating-point duration that is  constantly increasing. For example, today I am 32.60821917808219178082 years old, tomorrow I will be 32.6109589041095890411, and so on and so forth.

Nerd

Taking nerdness to the next level.. a  year is 3.15e7 seconds. So you're giving numbers down to picosecond, which is longer than what it takes to type the number. Not to mention that birth is a long process, and even cutting the cord may take a few seconds.
Next thing is the definition of the year, which seem to be not defined too well. Sidereal years or tropical years? To make it worse, tropical years vary by as much as half an hour.
It is relatively easy to define age down to a year, maybe to a few day. It becomes more difficult after that.  How do you account for an average year being 365.2425 days, for example?

(taking off nerdy glasses)

[kalvado]

Of course in Japan, you are considered oneyear old at birth,

How old was Jesus in year 1 AD?

[jlam]

Perhaps we should count these ages in seconds, as to account for leap years. For example, I, being one of the youngest on the forum, am approximately 457,825,386 seconds old (give or take). This is about as exact as you can get unless you want a live number or put it in microseconds.

[kalvado]

Perhaps we should count these ages in seconds, as to account for leap years. For example, I, being one of the youngest on the forum, am approximately 457,825,386 seconds old (give or take). This is about as exact as you can get unless you want a live number or put it in microseconds.

OK, throwing another wrench into all this.. How do you account for time zones if you move? Keeping straight second number may be straightforward that way.   But how do you celebrate birthdays?

[GaryV]

Of course in Japan, you are considered oneyear old at birth,

How old was Jesus in year 1 AD?

Approximately 4 or 5. Maybe as much as 7. (They didn't pinpoint his birth very accurately when they decided to divide time by it.)

[kphoger]

I don't think you can "average" the age of one person, because it is not actually an integer that only updates once a year, but rather a floating-point duration that is  constantly increasing. For example, today I am 32.60821917808219178082 years old, tomorrow I will be 32.6109589041095890411, and so on and so forth.

Well, you could...it'd just be half of whatever that floating point number is at that instant

I don't think it's that simple.  We tell our age by whole-number increments, after all.

I was two years old for 365 days, but this is only my 64th day of being my current age.  That messes up the numbers.  Also, for the first year of my life, I was zero years old.

I'm 41 years old, and my wife is 40 years old.  Yet, at my life's midpoint, I was the same age as my wife was at her life's midpoint.

[US71]

I intend to live forever...barring accidents

[index]

For cursive, I believe that reading cursive is an important skill because of historic documents. Writing it I see less of a use for.

I used to know cursive, I was taught it in third grade, but since I never needed to use it, I no longer know. This is despite our teachers telling us cursive would be required in middle and high school.

I still know how to read it, but have no use for that either. Nobody I know uses cursive. I don't even really need to know it for my signature either. It's my first two initials with the first letter of my last name plus a squiggly line at the end that has two loops thrown in.

[JoePCool14]

I think cursive is useful because it can be faster to write than print. I tend to write slowly because I don't like sloppy handwriting, so if I chose to use cursive, I could probably write faster. However, I admit I don't use cursive outside of a handful of aesthetic purposes on things like greeting cards.

[Big John]

I can write cursive slowly.  For it being speed writing, it quickly becomes illegible if I use it fast.

[7/8]

I remember learning cursive briefly in school (maybe Grade 3 or 4?), but it was too quick for me to fully learn it. I can't write cursive (except my own name), and even reading seems to depend on how it's written. For example, I find this first example much harder to read than the second (there's several words in the first example I can't figure out). I've encountered cursive it so rarely in my life that I don't think it's a big deal and it's not mandatory in Ontario schools.

[jakeroot]

For cursive, I believe that reading cursive is an important skill because of historic documents. Writing it I see less of a use for.

I used to know cursive, I was taught it in third grade, but since I never needed to use it, I no longer know. This is despite our teachers telling us cursive would be required in middle and high school.

I still know how to read it, but have no use for that either. Nobody I know uses cursive. I don't even really need to know it for my signature either. It's my first two initials with the first letter of my last name plus a squiggly line at the end that has two loops thrown in.

This is exactly my situation: I learned it, but never kept up. No one uses it. Everything for school must be typed. My signature is a doctor's signature (exactly cursive would be way too easy to copy??). I never see anything written with it anymore. Bleh.