Does that mean it is not true that it becomes harder to learn new things with age?
I’m 26 and I’ve been rushing gaining knowledge and experience very much so far for fear of just not being able to fit in much more once I reach certain age.
No I’m not virtue signaling, this is fucking stressful and I will be delighted to slow down a fuckton if that’s true.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Relevant XKCD
DonPiano@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
That’s stupid, though. If you can explain 11% of the variance of some noisy phenomenon like cognitive and behavioral flexibility, that’s noteworthy. They tested both linear and quadratic terms, and the quadratic one worked better in terms of prediction, and is also an expression of a meaningful theoretical model, rather than just throwing higher polynomials at it for the fun of it. Quadratic here also would coincide with some homogenizing mechanism at the two ends of the age distribution.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Whether you’re right or wrong, starting your argument with “that’s stupid, though” is unlikely to convince many.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
But I have eyes and the curve they picked as best fit is really poorly fitting. It’s such a poor fit that is almost in a dead zone of the random points.
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yet it’s one single sample, and possibly not a great one. Few things could cause the shape seen like sample selection of healthy people ignores a lot more of the 65+ community than the younger, and also stuff like those born around the 50’s have higher lead levels could cause more of a dip, or like… plenty of stuff. After some repetitions sure but even then… that’s 11% hell I could probably put in an exponential with a negative exponent and be as accurate or better.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Now this should be an xkcd
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This. I could have produced a more insightful scatter plot with a barn door and a twelve gauge.