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Would have thought the article would have included a discussion of "life experience" as a factor in intelligent decision making, but no, apparently not.
by nineteen999 2y ago
Would have thought the article would have included a discussion of "life experience" as a factor in intelligent decision making, but no, apparently not.
- lordfrito 2y agoExperience is what gets you ahead in life. Smarts help, but experience outweighs intelligence in the most important life decisions. Ask yourself, do you want a smart 25 year old running the White House? Or an experienced 50 year old?
- amelius 2y agoAt this point anyone younger than 60 would have my blessing :)
- throw__away7391 2y ago25? No. 35? Definitely. Somewhere around 60 should be the maximum age to run.
- dbsmith83 2y agoHow old are you? Usually this introduces a lot of bias in what your idea of a reasonable age is :)
- throw__away7391 2y agoA lot closer to 50 than 25.
- ghusto 2y agoMaybe somewhere around 60 is a good cut-off point, but 35 is still too young to have gathered necessary life experience to make you suitable.
- Ekaros 2y agoRetirement age minus 4 would be reasonable compromise for me. So you would not be allowed to run if you would hit retirement age during term.
- mcny 2y ago> Retirement age minus 4 would be reasonable compromise for me. So you would not be allowed to run if you would hit retirement age during term. I don't want to give them even more excuse to raise the retirement age.
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- amelius 2y ago20-30 year olds might disagree with you. It is perhaps unlikely their specific interests are well served by a much older person. "The country as a whole" is a very abstract concept.
- ghusto 2y agoFor sure. It's not a co-incidence that I keep raising the age I think you're old enough to know enough, the older _I_ get ;) I'm aware of the ridiculousness of this, but what can I do? You don't know what you don't know, and the alternative is to say you only know enough at the end of your life :)
- throw__away7391 2y agoI am now a good bit past this age, but I think 33 is a good enough age for almost anything, assuming that we are talking about the exceptional individuals who could get nominated at this age in the first place. I have seen some studies floating around that the most successful age to start a business is 45, so maybe that's closer to ideal, but in any case you will never convince me that the best age is in your late 70s.
- vharuck 2y agoAge limits don't make much sense. People who want them usually choose based on average mental capabilities for that age. But we don't vote for "the average American" (no matter how much they campaign on that image). We vote for specific candidates based on their speeches, previous work, and ability to manage. If we want to exclude people from running because of fears of dementia, we should demand cognitive tests, not stereotyping rules.
- throw__away7391 2y agoThat's completely absurd, there are tons of rule already about who is allowed to run as well as term limits which by that logic should be eliminated as well.
- amelius 2y agoI've never seen an IQ test where life experience mattered.
- arethuza 2y agoOther than the decision on whether to be interested in IQ tests - which I suspect does diminish along with accumulated "life experience"...
- nineteen999 2y agoI've never seen a situation where an IQ test mattered at all.