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by ncallaway 3347 days ago
And what evidence, besides your random agism, do you have to argue that a 95 year old person shouldn't be on the board of a company?
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To suggest that mental acuity is uniformly distributed with respect to age seems a bit "post-truth". The priors at play most definetly suggest much greater scrutiny of a 95 year old, but by no means should they be preclusive.
For the same reason an auto insurance company charges my 86 year old grandmother thousands of dollars per year more than myself; your faculties degrade with age.
If nothing else, he'll almost certainly be dead soon.