Do you think people are more intelligent with age?

We may be very slightly more intelligent with age but mostly it's just acquired experience. Although we can learn new things, that doesn't mean our brain power has increased. Yes, we have been through more, but did we learn from our experiences or from our mistakes? Overall, I think the amount of intelligence you had in your schooldays doesn't increase with age. You either have it or don't have it!

An intelligent individual would gain more knowledge as they age, but looking at people as a whole, being older does not necessarily make you more intelligent than those younger. Sometimes a younger person may have actually gone through more than an elder, but there is so much more to intelligence than just what has happened to us. It is how we perceive things, how much we pay attention to and question things. This is what makes one more intelligent.

hi. not all aged people are 'more' intelligent. there are a lot of proof to this. if they had gained enough wisdom and knowledge, these aged people could have been easier to deal with, or could have loved more than being loved. some of them are so self-centered even.

A good amount of research on neuropsychology points to the observation that: (1) our brain is able to strengthen neural connections from things we repeatedly do and become experts in (neurogenesis); and (2) that our brain is capable of capitalizing on different parts of it for different uses (brain plasticity). In this case, age theoretically allows more opportunities for a person to hone his intelligence in whatever form it may be. (Intelligence is still a tricky construct to talk about.) Simply said, research says that we can get 'more intelligent' as we age. There is a good amount of variance in this though, because how we perceive and take on opportunities is dependent on a lot of factors including our inherent personality 'traits' (again, another tricky psychological construct), the environment, and of course, our life experiences. This means that the brain 'grows' depending on how we make meaning from these confluence of factors. Simply said, the brain can grow 'more intelligent' with age, but at varying rates for different people.

as we get older we observe more things around us and we get the idea of how to deal with different situations by learning from other people. but we get smarter mainly through our life experiences. the harder chalenges we face the tougher we get.

Experience is the best teacher. It is not that intelligence comes because of age but because of the many more opportunities for learning one experiences as one ages. Of course it is also a matter of taking advantage of those experience. Just because one is aging does not mean one is intelligent enough to actually learn.

It's possible I guess. It's always good to learn something new and intelligence is the ability to learn, understand and think things through quickly. We all have different abilities and we all have good days and bad days. It's possible that as we acquire wisdom and have many experiences that our ability to learn, understand and think things through quickly improves.

Experience gives wisdom. Naturally most older people can have more experience than younger people. But as in the case of your tent living...example: im 55 and a friend of mine is 79. She has never been homeless, i have been. Some older people have not experienced some things. Any way i dont think it has anything to do with intelligence its experience.

Its not like that...Its upto their experience....

I think people are more wise with age, not intelligent. Because we have experience with many problem in our lives, and that will make us wise. Remember, experience is the biggest teacher. Our intelligent (i.e. IQ) only grow untill five tears old, and after that is just improvement phase of our intelligent. What I want to tell you is, the success in our live doesn't depend on IQ. But, much more depend on our emotional and spiritual ability.

Yes no doubt that with time in life you grow and learn day by day and event by event someyime less and sometimes enough experience you got through your daily life style or with connections of your family and friens circle you learn more from your surroundings.

To a certain extent, yes. I mean, under 16, people are usually immature in their decisions and actions. Over that age, it all depends on the person. I bet you can find an 18 person wiser than an 80 one and vice-versa.

As we get old in our day by day life you learn different things I don't know if someone noticed but if you could look at something that you made let's say 3 or 4 years ago you'll get that feeling that you can do it much better and that's because in those 3 or 4 years you've accumulated more experience and learned more stuff

This SHOULD be the case because the older you get the more people would have experienced. But keep in mind that many people go through things in life that others dont and some people go through more in life than some. Like me- whenever I share my stories people tend to be skeptical that I'm just in my twenties. But many people fail to learn their experiences or the expeirences of others and therefore you can find a person in their forties behaving like a rebellious 17 year old and never being able to cope or make their own desicions.

No.. I don't think so. I have seen people of very small age acquire a high level of maturity which certain people almost double their age lack. It depends on how much you have been through in your life that you acquire maturity or knowledge. It's true that age does give knowledge but it's also true that exposure to the world gives you experience.

I don't think so? But my opinion is depend on any person. Because not all people being intelligent and smart thinker. There are people who is always dumb and not listening to any advice. Instead they are more careful and think what older people say about there experience. Those people still doing what bad things they do...

I can't say whether people become more intelligent with age.They get more experiences regarding life with age.Hence having seen both the ups and downs they are in a position to make better decisions.This could be a reason why people feel they are more intelligent with age.

Maybe, older people are more intelligent because they learned a lot from their experience and use this to live life better. All the things in the past that we experience can teach us good lessons even if it is bad or good. All the things that happen in life are our tools for the future.

No, there are stupid people at every age level. Intelligence may be gained for some with age because of more experience and better hindsight. However, some people refuse to learn from mistakes and end up in the same cycle over and over. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and this applies to people escpecially.

With age comes more experience but not necessarily more intelligence. Does a wealthy middle-aged person know more about how to survive than an a destitute adolescent in Africa? Does a college student, whose only concern has ever been academics, know how to better deal with fear of further abuse than a young girl who was molested throughout her childhood? Does an elderly woman know all the new technologies? With age comes experience. Intelligence only comes with age if one is willing to learn from his or her past experiences.