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> Age is unrelated to wisdom and I'm talking about the full experience. That's not true; age and wisdom are quite related, just not directly causal. They are
by gnaritas 11y ago
> Age is unrelated to wisdom and I'm talking about the full experience.
That's not true; age and wisdom are quite related, just not directly causal. They are correlated. Older people are generally wiser, it's just not a guarantee, nor is it impossible for young people to be wise, but it's certainly far less common. With age comes experience and with experience, wisdom has fertile ground to grow, though it doesn't always.
- tacos 11y agoNotwithstanding the fact that "age is unrelated to wisdom" was a gentle contextual device used to dismiss the commenter's odd assumption about my age, a search for "age is unrelated to wisdom" turns up actual research papers. "neither general nor personal wisdom have a positive linear relationship to age... age is not only not related to personal wisdom (as is the case for general wisdom) but even negatively related..." [Mickler & Staudinger (2008), Sneed & Whitbourne (2003)] Source: The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom: From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Study-Personal-Wisdom-Contemplative-ebook/dp/B00HRNLC5U http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Study-Personal-Wisdom-Conte...
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- gnaritas 11y agoIf you actually searched for that, then you know there's far more studies showing the opposite. You can find a research paper supporting just about any position, that doesn't make it the majority opinion of the field. You actually had to ignore a lot of stuff saying the opposite, to find something saying age and wisdom weren't related. That's OK, you're young, you'll get wiser with age.