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Re:Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed by Nition on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:25PM (#26309303)
I can't find it now, but someone else on Hacker News a while ago posted a study that backed you up. Age above ~20 made people worse at basically every type of cognition test except for general knowledge.

Edit: Found it. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797614567339

Posted originally in this comment by checkyoursudo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25356216

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Re:Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed by jakub_g on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:30PM (#26309358)
Semi related: There was some study about chess ability of best players that showed up lately. Apparently 35 y.o. is when best players max out their skill. Then it's flat for a while and starts going down in 40s/50s.
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Re:Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed by Nition on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:31PM (#26309363)
Implying that's the optimal balance between thinking ability and time to learn I suppose.
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