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Putting arbitrary numbers on people to measure their matureness is weird to me.
There are 15 year old people who are wiser and more mature than a lot with 50.
You can't know without knowing the person.
Well it's not arbitrary is it. Any quantitative measure of maturity is definitely correlated with age.
Your "very mature" 15 year old is either an outlier, or an indictment on your ability to ascertain maturity.
Is it? Do you have numbers on that?
The numbers are not arbitrary. They are used to measure how long a person has been alive, which is kind of statistically significant, and yes, largely correlates with maturity. I'm not 26 mature points, I'm 26 years old.
That's where we disagree. You say that as if it were a proven fact. If you got studies on that, please report.
My point is, that at least from my experience there is a lot more to maturity than mere age. And you can't really know if you just superficially look at someone and their age.