Originally Posted by TED74

It's not my method, it's the method used effectively elsewhere. It's easy, since age is black and white...so no algorithm to debate over what experience (life, total, multi, jet, civ, mil, number of divorces, years driven with or without DUIs, number/frequency/severity of STDs, the list is infinite) does or doesn't affect Captainhood. You misunderstand the concept of randomness...which the SSN method is (or nearly so). I just offered that there is at least SOME correlation to relevant experience (correlation>0) using age, and already acknowledged the deviations from the mean like those for which you have personal anecdotes.

If you try and write an experience algorithm to sort a class by, you'll have a thousand pages of debate...way more than these few entries about age vs SSN and fewer people will be content than are right now.