Originally Posted by
180ToAJ
I’m sure he can bench 225 for reps and run a 6 min mile. That’s irrelevant. We all know some who are sharp and those who are slipping at old age.
You are, unsurprisingly, missing the point. She is slipping mentally. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind. She knows it, too. However, she was feeling well on the day she had that test done.
Oh, I get your point. It's known as faulty generalization. You were suggesting that, because Meemaw has cognitive decline, all older people have cognitive decline. It's a weak argument.
The truth is that some pilots could do this job perfectly well into their 70s and 80s. Just as some shouldn't be doing it in their 40s or 50s. Nobody has come up with a valid way of measuring that yet.