Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One
Again we have the founders never thinking that an 80yo would WANT to be in elected office; rather than at home walking the dogs.
In a rational world we’d be looking at someone in their 60s and thinking; are you really going to want to do THIS job? — in the private sector; we have effing age discrimination laws to protect those over 50?
When you use those statistics you should be careful to consider what the averages mean. Most people didn’t die around age 35 back in the 1700s, it’s just that childhood mortality was so high that it skews the average. ‘If’ you lived past 5 years old, you were likely to have at least a comparable lifespan to today, even if it wasn’t necessarily 70-80s.
Yep. As time goes by, I’d fully expect the age of politicians as an average to only go up [1]. And that’s just fine as long as they are getting assessed on cognitive function.
[1] I expect we’ll all be caught rather off-guard by this, much like AI.
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Correct.
Again we have the founders never thinking that an 80yo would WANT to be in elected office; rather than at home walking the dogs.
In a rational world we’d be looking at someone in their 60s and thinking; are you really going to want to do THIS job? — in the private sector; we have effing age discrimination laws to protect those over 50?
average lifespan in the 1770s was 35 years.
In the early 1900s it was still only 55 years.
When you use those statistics you should be careful to consider what the averages mean. Most people didn’t die around age 35 back in the 1700s, it’s just that childhood mortality was so high that it skews the average. ‘If’ you lived past 5 years old, you were likely to have at least a comparable lifespan to today, even if it wasn’t necessarily 70-80s.
Yep. As time goes by, I’d fully expect the age of politicians as an average to only go up [1]. And that’s just fine as long as they are getting assessed on cognitive function.
[1] I expect we’ll all be caught rather off-guard by this, much like AI.