This article is really thought provoking. One thing I wonder, though, is how they can ever adjust for the strong possibility older adults just can't care about

This article is really thought provoking. One thing I wonder, though, is how they can ever adjust for the strong possibility older adults just can't care about a make-believe test the way younger people might. My observation, as I age, is I have a harder and harder time getting interested in hypothetical scenarios, or taking on someone else's agenda as being super important. So I really wonder if older adults just test worse than younger people, simply because they care less about the test. If that's true, it wouldn't hold in the real world. Except that older people can seem less smart, when in reality they think whatever you're trying to get them to learn is not important in the grand scheme of things.