Objectively intelligent.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

In short, age may be irrelevant. Preexisting conditions such as heart disease, cancer, lung disease, or diabetes matter. Of course, those exist in greater percentages among the old. But also in greater percentages among the young in the American south, i.e. the fat smokers who don't exercise and eat poorly.

tl;dr - once again, people looked at correlation and wrongly saw causation.

I love you like kin, but "those exist in greater percentages among the old" means age does matter.