Bojan the Top7 Dog

Priorities are something that for most people change through the years. An eight year old boy can’t think past his next GI Joe or Transformers figure, while an eighteen year old boy has a decidedly different idea on his one track mind. An eighty-year old, if he can remember his priorities, probably has more practical things on the mind.

As it turns out, a lot of hypothetical questions involving priorities reflect that skew from age. When we asked people what superpowers they wish they would receive, 775 people responded. This was the general top seven results for the whole topic and all voters::

1 Invisibility
2 Flying
3 Mind Reading
4 teleportation
5 time travel
6 immortality
7 instant healing

However, interestingly enough, immortality in particular was a much higher priority for the younger voters! If you were under 15 voting on this topic, you helped propel this superpower to the #3 slot for your age group. On the other hand, if you were over 35 voting on this topic, you cared much less for forever-living and the item dropped to #7. Could this mean that the older you get the less you like life?
Or, perhaps its something else. For the young crowd, time travel was only their #6, but the over #35 set ranked it their top choice! So maybe this could mean that the older crowd doesn’t want to live infinitely as old folks, but rather prefers to re-live their glory days.
Perhaps their years sitting in traffic also influence why they care so much more about teleportation than the youngsters, or their years of backaches leading them to value instant healing a bit more too. But topics like this really go to show you what a difference age makes in priorities!

Under 15
1 Invisibility (same from the general list)
2 Flying Ability (same)
3 Immortality (up from #6)
4 Mind Reading (down from #3)
5 Teleportation (down from #4)
6 Time Travel (down from #5)
7 Instant Healing (same)

Over 35
1 Time Travel (up from #5)
2 Teleportation (up from #4)
3 Mind Reading (same)
4 Invisibility (down from #1)
5 Flying ability (down from #2)
6 Instant Healing (up from #7)
7 Immortality (down from #6)

Click here to vote: http://top7.com/top/408/Superpowers-I-Wish-I-Had/rank#rank
Click here to check out results: http://top7.com/top/408/Superpowers-I-Wish-I-Had
Click here to vote on who you admire most: http://top7.com/top/309/People-I-Admire/rank#rank