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27-33//100 days of productivity
27 jan - packed bag for school + ironed uniform
28 jan - first day of school!!!
29 jan - worked on music assessment
30 jan - tidied stuff around the house (i wasn't feeling well sooo i didnt do much)
31 jan - went for walk (fun fact!! i was sick for three days soo guess who stayed in bed almost the entire time)
01 feb - washed + wiped dishes + did a load of washing and hung it
02 feb - finished lyrics for music assessment + started art assessment:))
34//100 days of productivity
started art assessment
washed + wiped dishes
made a study routine :,)
3//182
Wrote 800 words for my novel
Finished learning my music assessment - wet hands from minecraft soundtrack
Tidied desk
Made teaa - specifically camomile
11k+ steps
Put 1hr time limit on all social apps that i havent deleted - tumblr, youtube, pinterest, wattpad, twitch, etc
Ello ello elloo its me again :) i got my science assignment again today !! We get to do and thing we want for it which is why ive been looking towards to it. I’m thinking about using the mbti quiz to look at how the average person who is _ age, _ gender, or comes from_ background has these certain personality traits :))
Signed, letti
The whole "the brain isn't fully mature until age 25" bit is actually a fairly impressive bit of psuedoscience for how incredibly stupid the way it misinterprets the data it's based on is.
Okay, so: there's a part of the human brain called the "prefrontal cortex" which is, among other things, responsible for executive function and impulse control. Like most parts of the brain, it undergoes active "rewiring" over time (i.e., pruning unused neural connections and establishing new ones), and in the case of the prefrontal cortex in particular, this rewiring sharply accelerates during puberty.
Because the pace of rewiring in the prefrontal cortex is linked to specific developmental milestones, it was hypothesised that it would slow down and eventually stop in adulthood. However, the process can't directly be observed; the only way to tell how much neural rewiring is taking place in a particular part of the brain is to compare multiple brain scans of the same individual performed over a period of time.
Thus, something called a "longitudinal study" was commissioned: the same individuals would undergo regular brain scans over a period of mayn years, beginning in early childhood, so that their prefrontal development could accurately be tracked.
The longitudinal study was originally planned to follow its subjects up to age 21. However, when the predicted cessation of prefrontal rewiring was not observed by age 21, additional funding was obtained, and the study period was extended to age 25. The predicted cessation of prefrontal development wasn't observed by age 25, either, at which point the study was terminated.
When the mainstream press got hold of these results, the conclusion that prefrontal rewiring continues at least until age 25 was reported as prefrontal development finishing at age 25. Critically, this is the exact opposite of what the study actually concluded. The study was unable to identify a stopping point for prefrontal development because no such stopping point was observed for any subject during the study period. The only significance of the age 25 is that no subjects were tracked beyond this age because the study ran out of funding!
It gets me when people try to argue against the neuroscience-proves-everybody-under-25-is-a-child talking point by claiming that it's merely an average, or that prefrontal development doesn't tell the whole story. Like, no, it's not an average – it's just bullshit. There's no evidence that the cited phenomenon exists at all. If there is an age where prefrontal rewiring levels off and stops (and it's not clear that there is), we don't know what age that is; we merely know that it must be older than 25.
This maybe old, but this covers some very relevant points, including some efforts that would come to define the struggles faced. Inside shows all the more reason why it’s important to adapt as needed.
Did I just send my music analysis assessment to my teacher? Yes.
Is it nearly half past 1am? Yes.
Am I bloody exhausted? Absolutely.