Sofia on Nostr: nprofile1q…hhcym just read most of it, haven't finished yet though since it's late ...
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I only really have 2 significant things to mention:
1. Imo it makes a lot more sense to think of age-cognition relationship from an *effect size* (not actually the right term since this is almost always a largely qualitative kind of research but you get the idea lol, describing it quantitatively is easier to explain) perspective, as in, how strongly age is positively correlated with (and with good variable control/accounting, probably causes) cognitive ability, and the curve it has (since we know it isn't linear)
That is to say, it isn't possible to say people are always more mature after a specific age, but it is possible to say that after a specific age it stops *having a role* in maturity (only leaving extremely individual sociopsychological factors)
2. The 12 number is interesting, it's not completely arbitrary since around 12-14 is usually when the aforementioned effect of age on cognitive ability stops being measurable *at all*, but it's worth noting that as far as i can tell all of the related articles you mentioned weren't designed to account for children artificially being held back by society (since changing that wasn't their goal)
That is to say, they're about how people *do* mature, not how people *can* mature if they're allowed to do so, the former definitely also has its value but i think understanding the possibility of changing that is important since the stance is about reform in general
This is part of why i usually point at ~8+ (or like, 7-10+, it's a big gray area lol), although the effect of age on maturity is measurable at that point even if children aren't hindered at all, it's so overshadowed by other variables like someone's socioeconomic status that it's not really a reliable proxy variable, and the only reason the difference is more extreme in a lot of places right now is that our societies made it that extreme
Sorry if it's confusing lol, it's 2am
I only really have 2 significant things to mention:
1. Imo it makes a lot more sense to think of age-cognition relationship from an *effect size* (not actually the right term since this is almost always a largely qualitative kind of research but you get the idea lol, describing it quantitatively is easier to explain) perspective, as in, how strongly age is positively correlated with (and with good variable control/accounting, probably causes) cognitive ability, and the curve it has (since we know it isn't linear)
That is to say, it isn't possible to say people are always more mature after a specific age, but it is possible to say that after a specific age it stops *having a role* in maturity (only leaving extremely individual sociopsychological factors)
2. The 12 number is interesting, it's not completely arbitrary since around 12-14 is usually when the aforementioned effect of age on cognitive ability stops being measurable *at all*, but it's worth noting that as far as i can tell all of the related articles you mentioned weren't designed to account for children artificially being held back by society (since changing that wasn't their goal)
That is to say, they're about how people *do* mature, not how people *can* mature if they're allowed to do so, the former definitely also has its value but i think understanding the possibility of changing that is important since the stance is about reform in general
This is part of why i usually point at ~8+ (or like, 7-10+, it's a big gray area lol), although the effect of age on maturity is measurable at that point even if children aren't hindered at all, it's so overshadowed by other variables like someone's socioeconomic status that it's not really a reliable proxy variable, and the only reason the difference is more extreme in a lot of places right now is that our societies made it that extreme
Sorry if it's confusing lol, it's 2am