58 years 3 days. I told me sons I feel like a 17 year old, because a 17 year old says "just 4 more years, 4 more years!"

dave

Old enough to know better, and young enough not to act on that knowledge.

I think mines fairly obvious from my user ID.....

PS It's the year I was born, not my actual age, before any wisecracks!

Patricklondon- because you're a free man.

I, on the other hand, celebrated the 19th anniversary of my 21st birthday this year. :)

err...actually...that would be 17th anniversary. sheesh, that's the first thing to go, the memory.

I think that the posters who are halving their age and calling it an average are rather referring to the mean. Waiting for someone more mathematically inclined than I am to tell me why I'm wrong.

Lobo, you started this, am I wrong?

As the French would say I am "a woman of a certain age' (48)

I believe the average age on Fodor's forums is 47.5

Dear Nikki, my capabilities in Mathematics, are far better than my capabilities in English, since I don't understand the difference between "mean" and "average".
Ok, all rules have one exception, Loba says a lot "You are a mean wolf", and the never said "You are an average wolf".

How do we calculate our average age?

Is it our chronological age?

Our emotional age? That would be the age our spouse’s quote when they say, quit acting like a ____year old.

Our health age? The age my doctor tells me I am.

Our ideal age? This is the age that I blurt out when someone asks me how old I am, and I’ve forgotten how old I am.

Age is relative and to prove it I will say that I was born in the year of the coolest cars.

OK, you are an above average wolf. The way I figure it, to halve your age, you are saying there are an equal number of years before that age and after it. That in English is, I believe, the mean.

To figure an average, at least in term of years, I would think you would add 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 up to your age and then divide by the number of years.

I will really be giving my age away if I say that I'm as old as my tongue and a bit older than my teeth. And I've a bone in my leg.

(That will probably be meaningless to anyone under the age of mumblety-something).

The mean is the sum of all values, divided by the number of values in the sample set (or n-1 in some cases). So halving your age definitely isn't the mean!

Mode is the value that occurs most often in a sample set - so that'll still be your real age.

Median is the middle value if all values are lined up in order. So again, with just one value, that'll still be your real age.......no getting away from it! 8-)

Nikki, I understood nothing, but I'm sure you are right...

RM67, thank you, I'm getting there. I was confusing my terms. Sounds like you're saying the mean is what I was calling the average. So what is the average? Is that another word for mean?

I was thinking of median and calling it mean. But I was thinking of each year as a value, not just the current age.

Lobo, as demonstrated above, I am not always right. Don't tell my kids. Everyone else knows already.

I think we have an aporetic dialogue here.
On one hand RM's definition is beyond any attack. On the other hand if the question is: "how hold were you, on average, considering the series of days you have lived"? If the question is like this, then the chronological age divided by 2, is the correct answer.

... how old were you? (the poster should be able to edit his/her own messages after posted)

Still 45, I think someone just did this bit...

Turned 50 in Santorini in August. Had to do it anyway so figured that was the best spot to be! Aside from that, I let doctors worry about numbers and I just enjoy the ride!