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Old people don't innovate? Sounds like an ageist stereotype.
by mseepgood 2y ago
Old people don't innovate? Sounds like an ageist stereotype.
- FredPret 2y agoQuestions about whole population groups like these are best understood not through stereotypes or anti-stereotypes but through statistics. I found this study [0] that examines the relationship between age and things like winning the Nobel prize or coming up with a "great invention". Looks like there's a peak in the late 30s and that peak is slowly creeping up as the population ages. But it might also be that you need a population of 20-year-olds to actually adopt the new inventions. [0] https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/jones-ben/htm/ageandgreatinvention.pdf https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/jones-ben/htm/a...
- j_maffe 2y agoRetired people don't innovate, simply because they don't work.
- RandomThoughts3 2y agoMost old people don’t work and a significant portion of them can’t. If you really think an aging population doesn’t have an impact on a country overall output, I have a bridge to sell you.