The age of peak intelligence.

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MarshPhantom

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9,658 posts

136 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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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?



Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Define intelligence.

MarshPhantom

Original Poster:

9,658 posts

136 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Ask Einstein.

Topbuzz

222 posts

179 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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MarshPhantom said:
So what exactly does this tell us?
That the opposite is true.

powerstroke

10,283 posts

159 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Common sense improves with age ??? before your 30 birthday you experiment with Ideas and try to reinvent the wheel ???

s2art

18,937 posts

252 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Nothing that isn't blindingly obvious. Experience matters. See https://www.verywell.com/fluid-intelligence-vs-cry...

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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It tells us you noticed you were close to not having a topic on page 1 of NP&E.

272BHP

4,960 posts

235 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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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.

98elise

26,376 posts

160 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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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?
It tells me that once you have some life experience you realise that there isn't a magic money tree, and that if you want stuff, you need to work for it.

Don

28,377 posts

283 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Topbuzz said:
MarshPhantom said:
So what exactly does this tell us?
That the opposite is true.
There's a massive difference between raw intelligence and wisdom.

The wiser you get the more you can make your intelligence work for you.

That and the difference between an intelligent person aged 70 and a fkwit aged 25 is probably much larger than an intelligent person of 70 and one of 25.


Digga

40,206 posts

282 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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MarshPhantom said:
Seems to a fairly widespread belief that your at your smartest before your 30, Einstein himself said the same.
Einstein was an undoubted intellectual colossus, a man of tremendous vision and talent, but he was not an expert of everything. Logical fallacy.

I read an interesting article the other day, which de-bunked the idea of linking genius with precocity. It looked at artists and the age they were went they painted their best painting or wrote their best poetry and the idea of youthful genius rarely holds. Picasso was a notable exception.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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MarshPhantom said:
So what exactly does this tell us?
What we knew already, that intelligence and wisdom are different attributes.

Sherwyn Sarabi is highly intelligent, his IQ is said to be 160+ but he'd be no good as a political leader for at least 11 years, he's got a few years of Primary school to go before losing the short trousers.

That said he might be an improvement on Jeremy Corbyn nuts

DanL

6,177 posts

264 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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MarshPhantom said:
Seems to a fairly widespread belief that your at your smartest before your 30, Einstein himself said the same.

So what exactly does this tell us?
Over 30 minutes on PH, on a topic involving intelligence, and no ones pointed out that it's you're yet?! Standards are slipping... biggrin

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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I repeat - define intelligence.

CrutyRammers

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197 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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La Liga said:
It tells us you noticed you were close to not having a topic on page 1 of NP&E.
hehe

jurbie

2,339 posts

200 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Digga said:
instein was an undoubted intellectual colossus, a man of tremendous vision and talent, but he was not an expert of everything. Logical fallacy.

I read an interesting article the other day, which de-bunked the idea of linking genius with precocity. It looked at artists and the age they were went they painted their best painting or wrote their best poetry and the idea of youthful genius rarely holds. Picasso was a notable exception.
Also Mozart.

Music is interesting because on the face of it it appears that most musicians do there best work when they are younger.

57 Chevy

5,409 posts

234 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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I've got more centrist in my politics as I've got older smile

Camoradi

4,285 posts

255 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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I'm sure I came in here for something, but damned if I can remember what.... confused

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

92 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Eric Mc said:
I repeat - define intelligence.
Your willingness to vote for a political party or movement that the OP agrees with, I think.

Vote the way he agrees with - clever Eric

Vote the way he disagrees with - bad stupid Eric

scherzkeks

4,460 posts

133 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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jurbie said:
Also Mozart.

Music is interesting because on the face of it it appears that most musicians do there best work when they are younger.
I think that has more to do with motivation.