“Older Beats Younger When It Comes to Correcting Mistakes”

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/older-beats-younger-when-it-comes-to-correcting-mistakes.html

This isn’t only a heartening victory for us geezers — though it is that.

It also suggests that the self-congratulatory narrative that some young (theological and political) leftists tell themselves, about their greater flexibility and openness, may not be entirely true.

Of course, having never myself made a mistake, I can only read at second-hand about the experiences of others in this regard.