The age of peak intelligence.

[KrissKross]

[oldbanger]

The pre frontal cortex doesn't fully mature until about age 25.

[mybrainhurts]

MarshPhantom said:

Seems to a fairly widespread belief that your at your smartest before your 30

Spot The Irony Competition....on your marks

Historical note ----> In days of yore, you're unlikely to win this if you're flying your Sopwith Camel with even a tiny bit of yaw.

[zarjaz1991]

It's amusing how mnay people consider themselves intelligent when they often aren't. Though that doesn't mean they are stupid, necessarily.

Myself....I have long been aware that whilst I am not "thick" or stupid, I am far from intelligent. I can write properly using correct spelling and grammar, but there is no particular intelligence that I can spot in myself. I rate myself below average in the intelligence stakes. Though I suppose it requires a modicum of intelligence to realise that in the first place.

Not sure why it matters though. Personality is more important.

[CaptainSlow]

There is actually a proven concept that a negative correlation exists between a person's perception of their own intelligence and their actual intelligence.

[Goaty Bill 2]

272BHP said:

A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
- Muhammed Ali

Says it all really.

Winston Churchill is quoted as saying;
"anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head."

Clemenceau more eloquently put it;
"Monsieur, my son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then."

otolith said:

MarshPhantom said:

So what exactly does this tell us?

It tells you that people are keener on redistributing other people's wealth than they are their own.

People who possess little are often far more willing to promote the redistribution of wealth than those who have spent the better part of a lifetime acquiring it.

CaptainSlow said:

There is actually a proven concept that a negative correlation exists between a person's perception of their own intelligence and their actual intelligence.

Presumably referring to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
But consider also the Imposter Syndrome, which tends to afflict those of higher intelligence/knowledge.

[otolith]

Goaty Bill 2 said:

otolith said:

MarshPhantom said:

So what exactly does this tell us?

It tells you that people are keener on redistributing other people's wealth than they are their own.

People who possess little are often far more willing to promote the redistribution of wealth than those who have spent the better part of a lifetime acquiring it.

Indeed - in other news, turkeys not very keen on Christmas.

[brrapp]

Oscar Wilde- 'I'm not young enough to know everything'

Ernest Hemmingway- 'Old age doesn't make you wise. It makes you careful'

Me - 'Not better, but different'

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Mark Benson said:

Intelligent people possibly do their best work unencumbered by experience and the young are more likely to look outside the norms of their field.

I think it varies on the nature of the work; pure mathematicians are perhaps best served by intelligence, other work benefits more from skill, education, experience, etc.

[Dr Jekyll]

brrapp said:

Oscar Wilde- 'I'm not young enough to know everything'

Ernest Hemmingway- 'Old age doesn't make you wise. It makes you careful'

Me - 'Not better, but different'

Bob Seger- 'Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then'.