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Innovators Are Older Than Ever
GrokSoup writes "A new study shows that great achievements in science are produced by older innovators today than they were a century ago. Using data on Nobel Prize winners and great inventors, the author shows that the age at which noted innovations are produced has increased by approximately 6 years over the 20th Century. This runs contrary to accepted wisdom in science, which says that most scientists peak in their 20s. It is also welcome news to those of us who have not yet, ahem, done our Nobel-winning work."
See, that's the problem really. Childhood has been extended by the same number of years as in this report. One hundred years ago, you'd be starting a family at 15/16 years old, now you are considered an adult at past twenty years old. Everything everyone does is extended by the same number. Unless you live in the south of course, where child bearing begins a year or so before the historic age!