I suspect that, had they had a few pipers (male and female) in their sample,
they would have given up and gone home at it would have thrown their results
out :)
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "tim rolls BT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Richard York" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:33 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Over the hill?
I shouldn't worry too much Richard, a brief extract from the summary says
"males tap faster than females, the dominant hand is faster than the
non-dominant hand"
the slow down is apparantly only about 10-15% for the over 50s compared to
the 16-24s, and if you want all the stats. and have trouble sleeping go to
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3848/is_200407/ai_n9439965/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1.
Just make sure you play with a group of older females and you should be
able to keep your end up!
A fellow "over 50"
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard York" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NSP group" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 7:06 PM
Subject: [NSP] Over the hill?
The BBC radio news Quiz has just referred to a test of men's declining
powers, correlated with age. It seems we start to seriously go downhill
after 39.
(Not much hope for me then.)
The test was to see how rapidly they could keep tapping their index
fingers over a period of 10 seconds, a vital skill for any man of the
world.
One wonders how the test would vary if they took a sample of NSpipers?
And does it mean that starting to play in my mid-50's I don't stand a
chance with repeated notes?
Yours in senility,
Richard.
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