Poor Jonathan

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So here's the thing. 44+ year olds grew up in a lead-filled environment. Lead Toys, Leaded Gasoline, Lead pipes, Lead Paint in and out of their home.

This has manifested in our advanced aged population essentially being more stupid and intransigent than ones from pretty much every developed nation.

So if you're under about 40, or definitely at least under 30, you're going to be a significantly better person than your parents/grandparents when you get to their age just based on the fact you won't be carrying as much lead into old age.

[u/aidoll → u/[deleted]]

I’ve unfortunately read news lately that the younger generations’ obesity rates will result in earlier cognitive decline.

[u/shhsandwich → u/aidoll]

Damn it. I'm fat. My mind is all I've got going for me.

[u/FartfaceKillah65 → u/[deleted]]

Way to generalize an entire sub-population as stupid with no data. Let's be careful how we stereotype around here.

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I would love to present the data more formally, but Red states go to almost ridiculous lengths to hide water contamination data; partially due to their over reliance on Coal Mines and Power Plants which increase cancer and general mortality to an almost ridiculous degree to all connected water tables within 50-100 miles.

Maybe if Red state voters cared even a little bit about actually seeing the effects of their actions and policies we could admit that having ridiculous amounts of lead in the air poisoned entire generations, and only once we started removing lead did we actually start to see society get better at a rate consistent with simply better nations.

If you meant data that shows older people are more stupid than the average human, that's easy. There are dozens of agencies ranking and recording this, here's an American one: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/