you need to be aproximately 50 years old to understand economics. what survey did this come from?

Question

A survey states the aproximate age at which you can fully nderstand certain subjects: 19 for mathematics, 48 for philosophy etc.

Answer 1

This makes sense -- it's not an issue of mastering all pre-existing knowledge in the field, it's about being able to grasp the key concepts and run with it. Great mathematicians are young, as those young supple minds are best at first learning new abstract concepts and creatively extending current ideas. Mathematics is abstract and does not require wisdom and life experience.

Economics is different -- you can get caught up in the math and lose sight of that, but it's about nothing except human behavior, and it does require some wisdom and experience to get it. That's why so many college students and young people who may have high intelligence prove to be so appallingly stupid in Economics, and a lot of them remain that way forever.

This is why you have child prodigies in math or music, but not in law or economics.

Answer 2

I don't think you can ever fully understand economics. Study of economics does not have extended history. Even game theory dates back less than 70 years. It is still a working study.
Compare to math, you need most of mathematician's skills to comprehend economics in scholarly level. You need to know calculus and linear algebra to go to grad school for economics and it doesn't stop there. What ever the survey may be, it is some what right. But I don't think you can fully comprehend math by 19. And Philosophy is more rigorous study than economics I think.

Answer 3

cuz you gotta have a lotta experience in life i guess before you can have a say n how things work.

maybe some old people rigged up the survey and surveyed old people.