[mbrumlow]

Why?

Maybe the older candidate only recently started to do the work. And this just the first thing the young person did?

I always get weird when people make a big deal about things people do at some young age. Most of the time the age is not important for the things we praise young people for doing. Most of the time it was just something their parents pushed them into to doing that any of many kids could have done had they just had the right parents.