By Nina FriedmanFor decades, fair- and festival-goers around the country have volunteered to step right up and have a carnival busker guess their age. Now, guessing someone’s age through citizen science can contribute to research in the social and computer sciences and medicine, too.
Everyday scientists and medical professionals are creating lifespan increasing technologies. Researchers across the globe are bettering our health so quickly that the average lifespan is increasing by six hours a day
. If you want to contribute to that research, simply go toAgeguess.org and begin playing the game.In 2011, Assistant Director of Research, Dusan Misevic and Associate Professor of Biodemography, Ulrich Steiner launched AgeGuess as a way to involve the broader public in aging research. With the help of a team of interns, they created a web-based game to answer questions about how aging relates to social science, medicine and computer science.A user begins playing AgeGuess ...
