Posted: 02.10.2005, 17:39
HP,
Age does generally tend to suggest how much exposure you're likely to have had to scientific concepts.
One doesn't expect young teens to have had much education about the math of general relativity, for example.
People who have done their homework tend to be less tolerant of the flights of imagination of adults who haven't taken the time to investigate the work that has been done by thousands of people to understand the topic being discussed, whatever topic that might be.
Age does generally tend to suggest how much exposure you're likely to have had to scientific concepts.
One doesn't expect young teens to have had much education about the math of general relativity, for example.
People who have done their homework tend to be less tolerant of the flights of imagination of adults who haven't taken the time to investigate the work that has been done by thousands of people to understand the topic being discussed, whatever topic that might be.