Originally Posted by
BlueJetDork
You know the cognitive decline study this echo chamber treats like the bible, right?
It measured cognitive decline. It’s real and measurable and starts at 24 and then keeps going.
By 70, the actual reaction-time difference is equivalent to one-third of a blink of an eye.
you’re misinterpreting that study, but that’s okay because you’re wrong in a much more important way:
the decline of pilot skills with age isn’t about raw reaction time. go instruct on a widebody and try to drag a median 63yo widebody captain through training on a new plane with all of their experience.