> But intuitively, people who have families will work significantly harder than a teenagers. So i think we're measuring something incorrectly here.
Exactly right. The sort of discipline I'm discussing here isn't conscientiousness.
Someone who scores low in conscientiousness, but then has children, is going to be a lot more responsible than they were before they had children.
Someone else accused me of reverse ageism. As if I'm biased against young people because I believe that people generally get better at life the more life experience they have. My rule of thumb is that if you're dealing with someone 10+ years older than you, it's generally good to assume they can read you better than you can read them.
> My rule of thumb is that if you're dealing with someone 10+ years older than you, it's generally good to assume they can read you better than you can read them.
This is giving a lot of people undue credit, is the problem.
Exactly right. The sort of discipline I'm discussing here isn't conscientiousness.
Someone who scores low in conscientiousness, but then has children, is going to be a lot more responsible than they were before they had children.
Someone else accused me of reverse ageism. As if I'm biased against young people because I believe that people generally get better at life the more life experience they have. My rule of thumb is that if you're dealing with someone 10+ years older than you, it's generally good to assume they can read you better than you can read them.