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Max's avatar

Yes. And you suggest that an elitist society incentivizes people wishing the early-bloomer story to be true. And I was wondering if you grant my alternative explanation and would agree that the elitist explanation is minor in comparison to the performance explanation (that young people actually perform better say in athletics and finance).

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Not much anyway.

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