An Interesting Article, I'm Surprised It Wasn't Posted Earler....

[jackthehat]

It is certainly true that people become more conservative as they get older,
perhaps this article explains why...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5921739/Older-people-really-racist-Prejudices-grow-feel-anxious-death.html

[ToraToraTora]

no wonder you had so ,much trouble with the red bus! PMSL!

[jackthehat]

Argue about which Politician said it first, if you like....

"If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain".

[jackthehat]

Which red bus?

[-Talbot-]

jackthehat
I didn't say they became 'a' conservative, or 'a' Conservative, which would be a noun.....I said they become more conservative which is an adjective.

Did that help?




Lol...pity you can no longer give yourself best answer.

You are having a nightmare today, TTT

[ToraToraTora]

gawd elp us, dumb and dumber!

[naomi24]

//why isn't agent COB a Tory?//

Because people only become Tories when they mature and see sense.

[-Talbot-]

no wonder you had so ,much trouble with the red bus! PMSL!





cough!

[ToraToraTora]

BA for naomi!

[naomi24]

Haha! You'll whistle for that one, TTT. ;o)

[jackthehat]

You still haven't explained the 'red bus' comment, TGT.....

Care to have a stab at catching me out on that?

[ToraToraTora]

you're the genius, work it out, clue, you've been whining about it for 2 years.

[jackthehat]

Ah, that would be *your* misapprehension that *I* voted to remain have have whinged about being misled by the big red NHS bus slogan, would it....?

Guess what.....??????

Shall we play 'Best out of 5'?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Quite a lot in the article about "research" and what research "shows".

For instance, under the heading "DO CHANGES TO THE BRAIN MAKE OLDER PEOPLE MORE GRUMPY?" we get this:

"A study of 60 people aged 17 to 95 found older people were worse at identifying others' emotions and intentions.".

Note the conclusion - "A study...found".

Let's not bother with minor details like how the sixty were selected and the methodology used to measure empathy and concentrate solely on the statistical merit of this piece of "research".

"Older people"? Is that people in the age range 76 to 95? Assuming an even spread of ages that would give us a sample of fifteen oldies, wouldn't it? Or maybe "older people" means people between 86 and 95, giving us a sample of seven or eight.

In other words that piece of "research" is statistically meaningless. As for the other "studies" cited in the article, well, we're not given any information about the methodologies employed. But we are talking about Social Science departments in modern universities

[-Talbot-]

Well, at least dumb (or am I dumber)has the capacity to retain information.


The bad day is getting worse, TTT.

[scooping]

Absolute cobblers. Just some 'academics' trying to earn a few quid and preen. There will be another bunch of idiots next week saying exactly the opposite.

[webbo3]

Older people in general or just older white people.?

[Mamyalynne]

...or Old white Generals?

[ToraToraTora]

"With no disrespect to you JTH, this post is such rubbish, that at first I thought one of the twins had posted it. " - gawd even the PIC has realised !

[-Talbot-]

er...aren't you one of the twins?

[Mamyalynne]

Could have worse, it might have been "Return of the Blimp Mk III".