memetics
Skulls are Awesome
Since: Feb, 2010
Skulls are Awesome
Oct 4th 2013 at 11:23:35 PM
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"[T]he longer humans live, the longer the age gap of competence tends to widen" - okay, yet the "competence bar" keeps raising with the general increase in overall human knowledge, so one would tend to expect that a person could be a "Renaissance Man" at an earlier age in the 1600s than today. Also, even if people *were* "competent" at an earlier age in the distant past, that doesn't mean that they'd be of equal competence to an older example today. Just because someone is the village medical expert in 946 a.d. doesn't mean that they would know or be able to do nearly as much as a similarly-situated town doctor today.
Just some thoughts. :-) -m
What the hell is an aluminum falcon?
"This is often the result of creating a Hot Scientist, with actors in their twenties playing full professors when in reality most people are at least 25 when they first get a Ph D. " Maybe my math is wrong, but I think 25 is in your 20s.