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A lot of people have either said how old they are or have said things that make their age fairly obvious. For example, QuakerBaker has said how old she is, Mystic has said he is in his 80s, Thrill said he is retired, mordant wants to retire, MQ retired shortly before she became a moderator, and I retired about the same time I took the moderating job. I'm sure if I think about it, I can guess some others' ages.
How about those who have not revealed their age? And how does he measure their wisdom? All geezers are wise?
Your observations do not square with the statistics, for the USA anyway. I'm 36, which happens to be the median age for religiously unaffiliated Americans, as of 2014 and according to Pew:
'Some of the groups that have already been growing in recent years may be primed for continued growth. This includes people with no religious affiliation: The median age of adults who say their religion is “nothing in particular” is 38, while for atheists and agnostics it is 34.
Overall, these three groups together (often called religious “nones”) have a median age of 36 – fully a decade younger than the median age of U.S. adults overall (46), according to data from our 2014 Religious Landscape Study.'
I think City-Data as a forum just tends to skew older compared to the vast majority of Internet forums. I'm aware that many of the posters on this subforum are, um, relatively old, and I don't spend enough time on the R&S general forum to glean any potential insights about the age of posters there
Like you? It’s pretty obvious what your age cohort is.
Probably based on the quality and content of their posts.
Exactly right--the quality of the posts and the language and styles. Hang around here long enough and one becomes familiar with the writing styles, syntax used, original thinking or brainless parroting, etc. Think of how kids talk when they go up to the mike on shows like Morton Downey and Maury Povich. They reveal their immaturity almost from the moment they open their mouths. Arrogant know it all's in a very unclassy way. People will accuse me of those very things but I think I do it with finesse and some education.
As non-existent as the other implication: geezers have all the wisdom.
I think there's more truth to that one. Obviously not 'all the wisdom', but it's foolish to deny a correlation between age and wisdom. Wisdom requires lived experience that the young just haven't had the opportunity to accumulate. I remember that my sophomore English teacher in high school told my parents at a parent-teacher conference that I 'seemed like I was going on [age] 40,' although he did not mean it as a compliment or a wisdom-assessment--it was a commentary on the fact that I was very sarcastic, prematurely jaded, etc. Younger people can be 'wise for their age' or what have you, but I think the common association of wisdom with age is merited....
Edit to add that I now find myself at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for the first time in...a decade?
I think there's more truth to that one. Obviously not 'all the wisdom', but it's foolish to deny a correlation between age and wisdom. Wisdom requires lived experience that the young just haven't had the opportunity to accumulate. I remember that my sophomore English teacher in high school told my parents at a parent-teacher conference that I 'seemed like I was going on [age] 40,' although he did not mean it as a compliment or a wisdom-assessment--I was very sarcastic, prematurely jaded, etc. Younger people can be 'wise for their age' or what have you, but I think the common association of wisdom with age is merited....
Absolutely. I’ve learned a lot over the years by having friends of all ages and also really listening and taking note when my older relatives told me stories.
Absolutely. I’ve learned a lot over the years by having friends of all ages and also really listening and taking note when my older relatives told me stories.
Likewise...not that I've always applied those lessons well enough, lol.
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