With age comes more experience, more learning, more time to become intelligent. I've never met someone who claims to be less intelligent than they were when they were 10. Personally, I can see the differences in how I approach different questions over time, more than simply a change in perspective, it's a change in my ability to answer the question.

That's not to say that the younger you are, the less intelligent you are. All people have different levels of intelligence throughout their life, one persons 12 is another's 60. In comparison between people, it's but a small factor. But I still feel there is a general trend throughout someone's life of an increase of intelligence.

An intelligent child should not be looked down on, but a high IQ can make you ignore the level of emotional intelligence in the child. In short, most people gain more maturity through age, whether from time, experience, greater exposure to various beliefs, etc. There are exceptions to every rule of course, a child who might experience a traumatic experience at ten is most likely more mature than a teen with a rosy life, but in general it follows that age bestows wisdom and youth, curiosity, or perhaps a more open outlook.

There's also types of intelligence to consider. A fifteen year old brilliant analytically predisposed thinker may have quite a lot to learn about nature from an older farmer. Therefore, I think it can be expressed like this: age should only be considered in relative to experience. And as older people usually have more experience, than I guess it should matter.

it is a factor that should be considered but there are definitely younger people who are smarter than older people. good example with apollo if he is 15. I'm only 14 and i know I'm smarter than my math teacher. she is extremely stupid. on the other side compare me now with a future version of myself. i couldn't compare. why? because he knows all the things i know plus all that extra knowledge capacity that come with age. basically it should be a considered factor because, yes theoretically older people are smarter, however we know that does not always prove true.

Of course.

a 5 year old is more intelligent than a 2 year old

a 10 year old is more intelligent than a 5 year old

15 is more inteligent than 10

and i would say this applies up till around the age of 22

and at a much greater age you start to lose intelligence

this applies to most people

of course there are geniuses and random kids that mature faster than others, but for the most part i think age matters

Yes!!! I've waited all my life just so that I can talk down to teenagers..., bwahaha ;)

I find it funny how teens think they are so smart ;)

There's a lot to be said for life experience and common sense. Sometimes, book sense makes no sense. Especially since any idiot can write a book and publish it. ;)

As people get older they become well rounded. No only in physical form, but also in knowledge gained ;)

If teens are so smart, how come you don't see many of them as CEO's or brain surgeons or as rocket scientists ;)

I find that I am never impressed by anyone with their pants pulled down bellow their ass ;)