Why is 17 the best age

This is when you're on your way to pretty much having it all. You're in the middle of your high school career, which means you're likely over the high school adjustment period and your more awkward days are behind you, but you also don't feel the same amount of stress as older kids who are applying to college and deciding on career paths are. You're old enough to get a job if you want one — plus, in some states you can even get your driver's license and the freedom that comes with that.

And it's just cool to be 16! You can go to lots of fun birthday parties and might even have one yourself. Things don't really get better than 17 — it's the absolute perfect age to be when you're in your teens. You're old enough to be trusted and have a sense of independence and individuality, but you're also not 18 or 19, when a lot is expected of you.

You get to have the same kind of fun with not as much stress, and not to mention you're not as worried about fitting in or being cool as you used to be.

Life is what it is, and it's mostly great. Via memeblock. The cofounder of the online-dating site OKCupid wrote a book called " Dataclysm " that used data from his dating site to answer questions about love, dating, and relationships. According to the book's analysis of the data, men find women in their early 20s most attractive.

Even as the men got older, their preference for something women seemed to stay the same. Women in their 20s on the site, on the other hand, tended to like slightly older men a year or two older than they were and women in their 30s tended to like men a few years younger than them. A disclaimer: OKCupid's data pool, which is based on its users, isn't a representative sample of the population.

A survey of 23, people in Germany found that year-olds were particularly satisfied with their lives, "all things considered. Your muscles are at their strongest when you're 25, although for the next 10 or 15 years they stay almost as hefty — and this is one of the traits that can be most easily improved, thanks to resistance exercise.

And according to one recent study, divorce rates are lowest for couples who married between the ages of 28 and According to one year analysis of marathons, the average age to complete the race in just over two hours was Your bones are at their strongest and densest when you're 30 years old.

Again, you can keep your calcium and vitamin D intake high to keep your bones healthier longer, but eventually, they will start to weaken. Scientists wanted to know whether physical and intellectual skills worked differently as people got older — so they studied chess grand masters.

By taking the scores of 96 grand masters over the course of their careers, the scientists were able to determine that on average, competitors do best at People's ability to quickly and accurately recognize faces of strangers being shown to them a second time in a lab test peaked at about But nine years after your peak ability to remember names, you may need to ask them to reintroduce themselves anyway.

According to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the average age when Nobel Prize-winning research is done is If you don't think you're in line to win a Nobel, the study authors say the concept still holds for other great achievements — people tend to do their most outstanding work in middle age.

Sure, your salary will hopefully keep rising to account for inflation, but will you actually be able to buy more with it as you age? That's in part because women's salaries start growing more slowly at about In , researchers from Harvard and the Boston Attention and Learning Laboratory published a joint study that found people in their mids — specifically, age 43 — tended to do the best on tests of concentration. Joe DeGutis, one of the study's coauthors, noted that younger people may have faster cognitive processing on their side, but older adults seem to win out when it comes to staying focused longer.

Scientists gathered about 10, people, showed them pictures cropped tightly around the subject's eyes, and asked them to describe what emotion the person pictured was feeling. They found a long plateau in people's 40s and 50s when the ability to correctly identify emotions based only on the eyes was strongest. Sure, you learned your times tables in elementary school — but it turns out year-olds are best at answering arithmetic questions on the fly.

Remember that study in Germany that found year-olds were particularly satisfied with their lives? After a dip in middle age, life satisfaction peaked again at about 69 years old. Even more intriguing, people over 60 had better life satisfaction than people 55 and up predicted they would feel five years down the line. It turns out people's scores on multiple-choice vocabulary tests keep climbing into their late 60s and early 70s. And you don't need to sit around reading the dictionary all day to make it happen — although it can't hurt.

In a Gallup survey , two-thirds of Americans over 65 said they always like the way they look. Insurance especially is outrageously expensive for teenage drivers here. I got my permit at So I would say 16 is the best age as long as your parents set limits and keep teaching you as you get older for the big world. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. November 2, Many parents are encouraging their teens to wait until 18 to learn to drive but is that really the best approach?

The answer is simple. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on email. Of course parents will answer that question differently than their children. Most youth are eager to drive at the earliest possible age because driving means fun and freedom. So, at first glance, it seems better to wait until teens are older to begin driving.

However, when you look a little deeper, you realize that part of the reason younger teens are more likely to crash is because they have the least experience. If you move the novice age to 18, the year olds are still inexperienced. The other huge factor is parental influence.