A smart 14 year old can often out-think adults in my experience, because adults are weighed down by 'adult' content like power relationship between the speakers, social appropriateness, real or imagined legal obligations, yesterday's news, thirst for alcohol and triple-X sex, you know "everyday stuff" whereas the 14 year old is relatively unburdened by all that baggage. What a 14 year old lacks is 14 years of reading on a subject, of course, or previous training. YMMV