Stupid question of the month

[Scott Adams]

At 08:26 PM 10/14/03 -0700, you wrote:
>If I may interject a little "real life" in here as well...
>
>I've served the last 16 years in the US Army Infantry.  Around about five or
>so years ago, we made a drastic change to the APFT (Army Physical Fitness
>Test) standards.  The old test used to be based pretty much on a slope, with
>those in the 17-20 year range expected to produce more repetitions of
>pushups and situps or a faster run time.  The adjustment made was based upon
>the fact that the 30-year-old-ish group actually had the most repetitions
>and faster run times, showing that a long period of performance produced
>greater results than just raw age.  Now, the grading scale is a bell curve,
>with the youngest and the older being about equal.
>
>If anyone is curious I could convert what the Army uses to a base percentage
>for age groups and you could use that as a framework for building an Age
>adjustements bracket.
>

Interesting info it would be.  But the army is a bit different from the
ancient
knight
or wizard.  So could be a bit difficult to match the info up.  It would take a
lot of
study likely..


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