Surprised by how many people question my premise. People generally get better at their job with more experience. Do you want a resident physician operating on you or an attending? An associate defending you or a partner? Shouldn’t a professor be better at science than a postdoc?https://twitter.com/cfchabris/status/972309302957543424 …
Mating effort and intellectual creativity both peak around age 30 for most fields, plus or minus about 5-7 years. But my most-cited paper came out when I was 24, which is a bit embarrassing. https://www.primalpoly.com/s/1999-sexual-selection-cultural-displays.pdf …
