Stupid question of the month

[Alex Koponen]

I, for one, am interested.
        Alex K

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Vance" <toganni at MSN.COM>
To: <POWERS-AND-PERILS at geo000.CITG.TUDELFT.NL>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Stupid question of the month


> 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.
>
> - David