Update: Should candidates to high office should pass a cognitive/ mental fitness test?

Wow, that was a couple of very insightful discussions, via social media no less. #1. The first one was about whether heads of state and candidates to high office should pass a cognitive/ mental fitness test. Click HERE to read and discuss some of the sharpest comments, such as… “I wonder what brought this up.” “Definitely. We routinely screen applicants for a wide range of jobs.” “Then the balance of political power would shift towards the designers of those tests.” “That’s what debates are for.” “Yes, but probably nobody would pass it.” “No, because if we can’t judge that for ourselves, then what business do we have voting at all?” #2. The second debate centered on the future of mental health: In ten years, will we see DSM‑6 or Something Much Better (SMB‑1)? Would you say “Something better hopefully” or “Well considering we approach mental health from a disease model.…that’s the first problem” or “DSM is a tool, and a very useful one. As any other tool it depends on the use you make of it,” or something else. Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring as always new thinking, research and tools for lifelong brain health and mental fitness. #3. Study: Across all ideological groups, higher cognitive ability and intellectual humility predicts support for free speech #4. Let’s understand how to increase resistance to tau and amyloid proteins so we can all become “super-agers.”  Brain sca...
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