Subj : Re: Mothers Day
To   : Ogg
From : Adept
Date : Tue May 16 2023 09:57 am

 Og> "holes in knowlege" is relative to you, maybe. Basically, it  
 Og> boils down to "we tend to remember what we care about, and/or  
 Og> what stimulates us."

Sure. I'm not using it in a negative sense. I have large holes in my knowledge, and, yeah, a lot of it is pop culture.

There are holes where I'd like to know more, but don't, like any geographical question about Africa.

 Og> Some people don't even care to remember the name of the planets  
 Og> either. Science is pretty good for me too, but I don't remember  

Yeah. Why it feels odd to me, as it feels like it's about like not being aware of Taylor Swift.

It just seems like something that, because the planets tend to make the news for one reason or another over the decades (and everyone else on the call is older than me), I tend to figure the knowledge would wind up being there.

I _know_ that's not how it is, and that my higher-level knowledge of the planets, which I _wouldn't_ expect people to know, is probably more of the outlier. Even though there's tons more of astronomy and general space stuff that'd be neat to know, but would take more dedication than I'm probably willing to give.

 Og> I'd be pretty bad at some arbitrary test that asks me to  
 Og> remember random numbers in a particular order or some "objects"  
 Og> that someone wants me to repeat.

Yeah, I suppose this is also a group that largely enjoys trivia. And occasionally thinks about studying up for concepts that pop up repeatedly.

But generally doesn't, because, hey, supposed to be fun anyway.

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I think I read about a study, recently, that seemed to indicate it wasn't that people avoided Alzheimer's, it's that they had a larger buffer before they were no longer functional.

Which... probably still means you can do something, but it's a bit of a different take.

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