Even More Weird Science

Americans get wiser as they get older but Japanese don't, or so The Daily Mail reports from studies done by a Canadian researcher. Apparently the article attributes the differences to the well-known individualist orientation of the U.S. and group orientation of Japan.

That attribution seems like a stretch to me. I'd as soon ascribe the observed differences to the different diets each nation consumes.

How about this: maybe U.S. schools do a less good job than Japanese schools so Americans spend the next 50 years learning on their own what they should have learned in school. Hat tip to Lucianne.com for the link.