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Common, thirty is not old at all :). I meant 40+ - exponential decline rather than linear one. Naturally 30-35 is like a sweet spot between experience and speed
by _random_ 13y ago
Common, thirty is not old at all :). I meant 40+ - exponential decline rather than linear one. Naturally 30-35 is like a sweet spot between experience and speed.
PS: being 28 myself I am more of a concerned theoretician; I know three people who are 35-40 and quite better than me.
- michaelochurch 13y agoThere really isn't a strong case either way on the matter of mid-life cognitive decline. The peak is "somewhere" between 17 and 70, but the plateau is so flat that it's hard to pinpoint it to a specific age and it seems to depend a lot on the individual. We still don't know when we peak. I tend to take that as a positive. Where there is exponential worsening is in physical health: risk of death (also, risk of cancer) go up at about 9% per year, or a doubling each 8 years-- that's the Gompertz model, and it holds well from about 20 to 85. For mental decline, though, evidence for general decline in healthy people is pretty thin.