It's amazing how stupid some people are

Old doesn't = stupid

Yeah thats the way ive always felt, but ive never really thought about it or tried to equate old people's mental inabilities before with anything. I just look at it like "oh, their old". But obviously their not nearly as smart as they once were.

Yeah thats the way ive always felt, but ive never really thought about it or tried to equate old people's mental inabilities before with anything. I just look at it like "oh, their old". But obviously their not nearly as smart as they once were. I wonder if they know the difference between their and they're.

Yeah thats the way ive always felt, but ive never really thought about it or tried to equate old people's mental inabilities before with anything. I just look at it like "oh, their old". But obviously their not nearly as smart as they once were.

People often fear that aging will cause their intellect to disappear, giving way to cognitive impairment and irrationality. However, intellectual decline is not an inevitable consequence of aging. Research does not support the stereotypic notion of the elderly losing general cognitive functioning or that such loss, when it does occur, is necessarily disruptive. Older adults tend to learn more slowly and perform less well on tasks involving imagination and memorization than do younger adults, but what older adults may be lacking in terms of specific mental tasks, they make up for in wisdom, or expert and practical knowledge based on life experience.


Read more: Developmental Psychology: Intelligence and Memory: Age 65+ - CliffsNotes (http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Intelligence-and-Memory-Age-65.topicArticleId-26831,articleId-26819.html#ixzz19cIjXHQo)

I wonder if they know the difference between their and they're.

touche.....

I feel like you can replace wisdom with "stories" in every occurance in that psychology link.....

I talked about this a little bit with my boss (65) who has a intense personal interest in human psychology. He told me about:

Fluid and crystallized intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_and_crystallized_intelligence)

I completely agree with both things; wisdom and fluid & crystallized intelligence and i think there are different types of smarts (street, book, football), but at the end of the day I don’t think any of us would trade fluid intelligence for crystallized intelligence or wisdom. And I would think most of our parents, grandparents, other old people in our life would gladly trade some ingenuity for their old fashion know how.

I think you're glossing over what wisdom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom) truly is.

I find it interesting that anyone would equate being old with being stupid. They are two very different things. Just because they are confused by technology doesn't mean they're dumb. That seems like a very small minded equation. I work with elderly people, and have done so everyday for many years. Believe me they aren't dumb.