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itsybitsyspideron Newly Declassified Documents: NATO Wouldn't Move Past East German Border

Does:

> led by those junior dictators in Poland and Hungary

sound civil and substantive?

itsybitsyspideron Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

Those studies don't necessarily give you a definite answer regarding age. Other studies suggest that it starts much earlier: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00016918679...

Salary and work-life balance expectations definitely play a huge role in this phenomena - I'm just pointing out that there might be other factors too - factors that people often reject up front because they feel uncomfortable with them.

itsybitsyspideron Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

A quick Google search:

http://news.mit.edu/2015/brain-peaks-at-different-ages-0306

I also didn't mean to sound like that :) I'm on the "decline" side and even though I'm not necessarily happy with that, I also understand that you can't cheat biology.

itsybitsyspideron Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

By "fluid inteligence" I meant (after wikipedia)

> Fluid intelligence or fluid reasoning is the capacity to reason and solve novel problems, independent of any knowledge from the past.

I'm not saying that isn't not important in the disciplines you just mentioned. I _think_ however, that it's more important when you work on something that is meant to be "disruptive". I don't think that for example carpentry necessarily belongs to the same job category.

itsybitsyspideron Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

Sure, this page links to some studies on the topic of fluid vs. crystallized intelligence: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/fluid-and-...

A lot of information can be found in psychological literature touching on Cognitive Psychology.

itsybitsyspideron Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

I think one of the reasons is because fluid intelligence declines as people get older - it's maybe an unpopular and uncomfortable, but still, a scientific fact proven by many psychological studies. If I was an employer, I'd definitely prefer someone who's at the peak of their intellectual capabilities.

itsybitsyspideron Newly Declassified Documents: NATO Wouldn't Move Past East German Border

> led by those junior dictators in Poland and Hungary

You watch too much main stream media. Turn off your TV and start thinking instead ...

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> Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links (...)

I'm surprised that wsj.com spam is doing so well on HN.