The age of peak intelligence.
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Youngsters who are interested in politics often tend to assume that they and their like minded mates will swiftly become political leaders, so they see concentrated govt power as self evidently good. Once they realize that govt is sometimes in the hands of those they don't agree with they start to see the problem.
Slightly OT, but would George Orwell have remained left wing if he had lived into the 1970s? he saw through the Soviet union and was very critical of parts of the left even in the 1930s.
Slightly OT, but would George Orwell have remained left wing if he had lived into the 1970s? he saw through the Soviet union and was very critical of parts of the left even in the 1930s.
CaptainSlow said:
MarshPhantom said:
Seems to a fairly widespread belief that your at your smartest before your 30, Einstein himself said the same.
I assume your in you're mid-80's?Murph7355 said:
CaptainSlow said:
MarshPhantom said:
Seems to a fairly widespread belief that your at your smartest before your 30, Einstein himself said the same.
I assume your in you're mid-80's?scherzkeks said:
Murph7355 said:
CaptainSlow said:
MarshPhantom said:
Seems to a fairly widespread belief that your at your smartest before your 30, Einstein himself said the same.
I assume your in you're mid-80's?CaptainSlow said:
scherzkeks said:
Murph7355 said:
CaptainSlow said:
MarshPhantom said:
Seems to a fairly widespread belief that your at your smartest before your 30, Einstein himself said the same.
I assume your in you're mid-80's?(scherzkeks - feck off )
MarshPhantom said:
So what exactly does this tell us?
I neglected to answer this when pointing out the grammatical failings earlier. It tells us that correlation is not the same thing as causation, in the same way that my tiger repelling rock isn't the reason I've not been attacked by a tiger. (I should give credit to the Simpsons for that line, as I shamelessly stole it...)Edited by DanL on Friday 20th January 12:58
MarshPhantom said:
Seems to a fairly widespread belief that your at your smartest before your 30, Einstein himself said the same.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/09/mental-peak-age_...
Also fairly common knowledge that young people vote more Left Wing. Even The Torygraph agrees.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/108...
And that older people become more right wing.
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mr-personality/201410...
So what exactly does this tell us?
That young people are worth less and pay barely any tax? It also tells us that unintelligent people don't understand the difference between correlation and causation.www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/09/mental-peak-age_...
Also fairly common knowledge that young people vote more Left Wing. Even The Torygraph agrees.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/108...
And that older people become more right wing.
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mr-personality/201410...
So what exactly does this tell us?
fblm said:
MarshPhantom said:
Seems to a fairly widespread belief that your at your smartest before your 30, Einstein himself said the same.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/09/mental-peak-age_...
Also fairly common knowledge that young people vote more Left Wing. Even The Torygraph agrees.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/108...
And that older people become more right wing.
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mr-personality/201410...
So what exactly does this tell us?
That young people are worth less and pay barely any tax? It also tells us that unintelligent people don't understand the difference between correlation and causation.www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/09/mental-peak-age_...
Also fairly common knowledge that young people vote more Left Wing. Even The Torygraph agrees.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/108...
And that older people become more right wing.
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mr-personality/201410...
So what exactly does this tell us?
As for the unintelligent types not understanding the differene between correlation and causation, they can always get work in climate science. No, hold on that, the money might be about to fade away.
/trumped
Nice troll OP. Not too clever to ask Einstein since he's dead
I'm sure we'll see a few more young genii in the sciences in years to come but it seems like as time goes on there is less innovation coming from those types simply because the amount of science you have to learn before you can even think about coming up with anything new is always increasing. Youthful energy is fine but perhaps as time goes on what we will need more of is endurance.
Re: music, pop music is its own thing because it tends to revolve around what the youth want to listen to and guess what, most of them like to hear the latest stuff made by their own kind who are in tune with what's trendy. Other music scenes work differently and in the classical world you often see composers and performers improve with age.
Basically success in any field is complicated and viewing age vs intelligence/success in such a simplistic fashion is not terribly constructive.
I'm sure we'll see a few more young genii in the sciences in years to come but it seems like as time goes on there is less innovation coming from those types simply because the amount of science you have to learn before you can even think about coming up with anything new is always increasing. Youthful energy is fine but perhaps as time goes on what we will need more of is endurance.
Re: music, pop music is its own thing because it tends to revolve around what the youth want to listen to and guess what, most of them like to hear the latest stuff made by their own kind who are in tune with what's trendy. Other music scenes work differently and in the classical world you often see composers and performers improve with age.
Basically success in any field is complicated and viewing age vs intelligence/success in such a simplistic fashion is not terribly constructive.
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