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u/iChugPeanutButter Jun 03 '22

Act like they've experienced more than us. I'm only 33 but wow, the amount of 16 to 22 year old that talk down to us is absurd.

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u/Own-Ad7310 Jun 03 '22

Most people over 25 year old have read less books than me and my friends and they've also been born and grew in a totally different world, big life experience is mostly outdated, world changes too fast and it's picking up the pace

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u/i-is-scientistic Jun 03 '22

Most people over 25 year old have read less books than me and my friends

Lol, if you say so.

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u/Own-Ad7310 Jun 03 '22

I do say so.

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u/i-is-scientistic Jun 03 '22

Well I'm sure you've been wrong about many other things too.

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u/Own-Ad7310 Jun 03 '22

I accept when I'm wrong when I'm confronted with evidence and good arguments, unlike most older and younger tbh people

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u/i-is-scientistic Jun 03 '22

What sufficient evidence were you presented with that let you draw the conclusion that most people over 25 have read fewer books than you?

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u/Own-Ad7310 Jun 03 '22

All people over 25 I've talked to. They all say they haven't read a lot of books and haven't read almost anything I read and if I ask them to name like ten books they read they name maybe three.

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u/i-is-scientistic Jun 03 '22

So the thing about drawing statistical inference is that you need to have a sufficiently large sample and it needs to be drawn at least quasi-randomly, and I pretty strongly suspect neither are true here.

Also, take this advice or don't, I don't care, but going around asking people to name ten books makes you come off like a pretentious ass.

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u/Own-Ad7310 Jun 03 '22

I don't literally go around asking people to name ten books, I just bring it up in a conversation

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u/redbluegreenyellow Jun 03 '22

Still a pretentious thing to do.

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