I think my ability to guess other peoples age was better a while back, into my forties sometime it declined a bit, or started to distort, whatever anyway.

Q – is the ability to guess at age an intuitive thing, how well do you reckon you’d do at it if you never learnt to count (minus the YO thing), and do people think animasl have similar abilities (of particularly their own species), and what of the x-species thing too……

Further, I’d guess there’d be many advantages to guessing at age, what might they be, and how would the outwardly obvious benefits appear….

mating

younger people are more likely to be easily led

they make laws about young people not being able to enter into legal contracts

sizing up an opponent might involve age

> my ability to guess other peoples age …

… has always been nonexistent. For me I suspect that that’s because I follow Marie Curie’s dictum: “In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.”

// is the ability to guess at age an intuitive thing

yesno

>// is the ability to guess at age an intuitive thing

>yesno

I’ll rephrase

Is the ability to guess at age (how far some example of ones own human kind, is into a typical lifetime or life cycle, probably involving correlates with fitness, to generalize) is this courtesy the experience of intuitive abilities, or if you like some innate capacities’. Perhaps instincts.

helpful, wasn’t that….

// helpful, wasn’t that….

no more than SCIENCE

seems natural to be able to distinguish infants from infirms