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美國人越老越聰明日本人25歲智慧達頂峰?
How Americans get wiser with age... but the Japanese are as wise as they'll ever be by 25

[ 2012-04-13 08:41]

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Conventional wisdom: Americans tend to get steadily wiser as they get older

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It is commonly thought that age brings wisdom.

And this is largely true, it seems – unless you are Japanese. In which case, by the time you are 25, you are likely to be just as wise as your elders, an astonishing new study reveals.

Americans, however, are more conventional and develop deep understanding over time, according to research by the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

In one of the tests, designed to measure five crucial aspects of reasoning, US citizens’ scores improved by 22 percent over 50 years.

But, in the examination scored out of 100, both 25-year-old and 75-year-old Japanese participants had an average quotient of 51 for intergroup wisdom – the idea of understanding society.

With Americans, on the other hand, results from the same tests varied between averages of 45 and 55 between the two age groups.

Also, interpersonal wisdom – the understanding of relationships between individuals – the scores of the 225 US participants climbed from 46 to 50.

In the case of the 186 Japanese people recruited by lead researcher Igor Grossmann, their scores actually dropped slightly from 53 to 52.

The tests also recorded other unexpected results.

Given the US reputation of an individualistic society, you might expect its participants’ interpersonal wisdom to be higher than their supposedly more collectivist Japanese counterparts.

Yet the study showed that by 75, the Japanese scored higher in the interpersonal wisdom and Americans, in fact, achieved higher results in the intergroup variety.

Dr Grossman suggested that perhaps, then, you need individual skills when society is collective, and social ones when it is individualistic.

His study, published in Psychological Science and reported in The Economist, recruited Japanese and Americans with a range of different occupations.

(Read by Nelly Min. Nelly Min is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)

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大眾普遍認為年齡增長會帶來更多智慧。

這似乎很大程度上是正確的，除非你是日本人。一項新研究揭示了一個驚人的結果，日本人在達到25歲時，很可能擁有與年長的人一樣多的智慧。

不過，加拿大安大略省滑鐵盧大學開展的這一調查顯示，美國人在這方面更合乎常規，隨著年歲的增長而加深認知。

在其中一項對推理能力的測試中，年長五十歲的美國參與者得分要高出22%。該測試的目的是對參與者推理能力的五個重要方面進行考量。

但是，在對25歲及75歲的日本人進行測試時，他們的團體智商——社會認知能力的平均分都是51（滿分為100分）。

而當美國人接受同樣的測試時，兩個年齡群的平均分則分別為45和55。

此外，在人際交往的智慧（即對個體間關系的認知）方面，225名美國參與者的分數隨年齡增長由46分增至50分。