Early to mid twenties. They both have supportive work environments and a whole host of people helping them through the days. Theoretically it will take them a few weeks to get used to it.
I thought similarly, or that it was perhaps 16-18 year olds taking it upon themselves for a science project or something. However I'm now assuming it is people in their mid-twenties who apparently regard themselves so free of the inherent responsibilities of life that they refer to themselves as kids.
I'm 22 and married. I immigrated to Canada (and the legal responsibilities inherent in this would likely scare the life out of these two 'kids'). My friends and family members of similar age to us have children (in fact our marriage is directly responsible for one of them), and I will likely have children before the two authors consider themselves 'adults'. I have responsibilities and obligations, like I assume most twenty year olds do, and I consider myself to have very few responsibilities in comparison to many of my friends and relatives.
It must be a privileged life to be able to consider yourself a kid well into your twenties, I stopped thinking of myself as a kid when I had to get a full time job at 16. I definitely stopped thinking of myself as a kid when I was handling an intercontinental relationship and funding international travel, which as I said before has resulted in me immigrating to another country.
Thanks, at least on HN the majority balances out the down-mods so that coherent posts stay balanced. We're not reddit yet where any non-conformism gets down-modded to non-existence. I frequently try to upvote posts I disagree with that are well written.
The definition of "kid" keeps expanding. I'm in graduate school and the students call each other kids. One once asked me, "are you the kid who..." - I'm 34 years old.
We referred to ourselves as kids because we regularly ponder the implications of becoming dinosaurs and consider Nerds a viable food product. It has nothing with our age, so much as a mindset.
To answer the question, we're 22 (Caitlin) and 25 (Blake). No actual children are involved with the experiment. Does this clear the age question up?
Yeah, it's cutsey and all, but you should include a parenthetical explanation (so people don't panic over 10 year olds risking their health on that kinda shit).
having kids in the title makes the article much more click-worthy. You have to stand out somehow among all the other polyphasic sleep experiment blogs, right?
Prepare for 'Two kids accepted to Y Combinator's funding program' articles in the future.
