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by petra
2118 days ago
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Accorindg to your link, mean Conscientiousness raises by only 16% over age, with the standard deviation stays the same. Doesn't sound that large. But intuitively, people who have families will work significantly harder than a teenagers. So i think we're measuring something incorrectly here. |
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Exactly right. The sort of discipline I'm discussing here isn't conscientiousness.
Someone who scores low in conscientiousness, but then has children, is going to be a lot more responsible than they were before they had children.
Someone else accused me of reverse ageism. As if I'm biased against young people because I believe that people generally get better at life the more life experience they have. My rule of thumb is that if you're dealing with someone 10+ years older than you, it's generally good to assume they can read you better than you can read them.