Yes, We Get Wiser with Age
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Yes, We Get Wiser with Age
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#2> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging.
How does this explain Brexit?
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18-24: 71 remain / 29 leave
25-49: 54 remain / 36 leave
50-64: 40 remain / 60 leave
65+: 36 remain / 64 leave
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#3> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging. How does this explain Brexit? https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfro…
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#4> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging. How does this explain Brexit? https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfro…
Maybe because of differences of education and history between generations. We should compare 65+ yo people with how they were 40 years ago, not with 25 yo of today.
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#5we just get more averse to bad ideas, or have heard it all before.
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#6> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging. How does this explain Brexit? https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfro…
I am curious too, the brexit vote for many people was an emotional one. It was certainly not based in any logic that anyone can cite.
That sample is too large to be anecdatum.
However to play devils advocate; leave voters were drip fed anti-EU propaganda for decades with nobody on the EU side defending it, and the run up to the referendum there was a lot of lying. So the fault may be that people were more susceptible to misinformation in that state.
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#7> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging. How does this explain Brexit? https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfro…
I have no investment in the outcome of Brexit but I have to say that speaking as if it was objectively worse is dismissive of the section of population who showed up and voted in favour of it.
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#8> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging. How does this explain Brexit? https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfro…
The younger people weren't wise enough to actually show up and vote. If they had voted in the same numbers, there wouldn't be Brexit.
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#9> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging. How does this explain Brexit? https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfro…
Instead of making the ridiculous (i.e. unsupported and wild) generalization to the effect that if you voted for Brexit you were unwise (stupid?) which frankly amounts to little more than name-calling, why not go head to head with the made by hundreds of business leaders and intellectuals who voted Leave? I don't hold out any hope because you certainly give the impression of someone who's impervious to argument.
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#10> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging. How does this explain Brexit? https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfro…
The younger people weren't wise enough to actually show up and vote. If they had voted in the same numbers, there wouldn't be Brexit.
Bingo, not all ages groups are present in voting