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It's not ageism when it is true. Ism would imply a bias. We all know old people don't have tech chops like young people. It's literally scientific fact that bra
by goldenkey 6y ago
It's not ageism when it is true. Ism would imply a bias. We all know old people don't have tech chops like young people. It's literally scientific fact that brains get less plastic, lazier, and less adept at learning new things as they age. There's even an adage!
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks!"
The average age of newly appointed judges is 50. Yeah, keep on smokin that identity politics shenanigans instead of statistics and science.
- dafoex 6y agoI agree to a point, but I think its more a lack of training than a purely age thing. Yes, "grandpa judge" might not be able to learn new things now, but they could have put effort into learning things then. Even if hardly anyone uses FORTRAN any more, being familiar with the field then has got to count for something now. I'm not saying a judge should know every field - far from it - but if they could read around just one other subject while in law school and specialise in law surrounding that subject, we may have a hope of having $field literate judges in the future.
- ryukafalz 6y agoWho do you think built most of the tech you’re using? Bear in mind that HTTP (relevant in this particular article) was invented almost 25 years ago. And TCP/IP is far older.
- goldenkey 6y agoI'm pretty sure it wasn't a guy swinging a gavel around but correct me if I'm wrong.
- jjeaff 6y agoI would agree with you if 100% of older judges were less adept at technology than all younger people. But the fact is, that while the stereotype of older people being worse at tech than younger people is true on a statistical level, it is not true on every individual level. And that is the very definition of -ism. Assuming someone must not be good at something because of their age or group or whatever. Statistically, black people are less likely to have a college degree than white people. Does that mean it is ok to not consider black candidates for hire since statistically, they are less educated? Of course not. If the problem is that judges don't understand technology, then the solution is to get more judges that do. Not, get younger judges and hope that they understand tech better than their older counterparts because it will probably play out that way statistically.
- goldenkey 6y agoIf you believe that, then statistically, these court cases have a high chance of being bungled. Individual judges need not factor in.