“Wisdom” in this case meaning the prejudices accumulated over a lifetime? According to research, an average septuagenarian is more narcissistic, less literate, more bigoted, and less intelligent than the average teenager. Sometimes by multiple standard deviations. (I can provide sources).
Couple the Flynn effect with lead poisoning and you have a gap of almost 30 IQ points in some areas of the country.
By the way, have you ever seen an old person’s brain in an MRI? It’s missing like 20% of its volume.
“Wisdom” in this case meaning the prejudices accumulated over a lifetime? According to research, an average septuagenarian is more narcissistic, less literate, more bigoted, and less intelligent than the average teenager. Sometimes by multiple standard deviations. (I can provide sources).
Couple the Flynn effect with lead poisoning and you have a gap of almost 30 IQ points in some areas of the country.
By the way, have you ever seen an old person’s brain in an MRI? It’s missing like 20% of its volume.