Can I ask why you think that young people are inherently less disciplined?
"Agreeableness demonstrated a fairly linear increase with age whereas the pattern for Conscientiousness was curvilinear: scores increased up to a peak somewhere between the ages of 50 to 70 and then declined."
Doesn't sound that large.
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.
This is giving a lot of people undue credit, is the problem.
Pretty much every adult does this as a matter of course.
Certainly children don’t, if you’re only talking about prepubescent children, but they’re also not particularly relevant to a discussion about working from home.
Then I think it's pretty clear that's not what I meant when I said children... It becomes even more clear when you realize I said "or their own car", or did you think it was my belief that 5 year olds were driving themselves to school?
Because that's what you're implying here, and I don't think any reasonable person would make the claim that's obvious.