Sentences with phrase «better than young adults»

But it could also be that the effect doesn't emerge for older adults because they're actually better than young adults at correcting low - confidence errors.

«The take home message is that there are some things that older adults can learn extremely well, even better than young adults.

The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, shows that older adults were actually better than young adults at correcting their mistakes on a general information quiz.

However, new research by Kelli Canada, assistant professor in the University of Missouri School of Social Work, shows that although mental health court participants older than 50 adhere to treatment programs better than younger adults, they are just as likely to be reincarcerated or relapse into criminal behavior.

Not exact matches

The transfer shares a good part of the blame for the financial squeeze that leaves young adults unable to afford a family of more than one or two children, as journalist Duncan Hood discusses in «The war against the family.»

Researchers found that young adults proficient in two languages performed better on attention tests and had better concentration than those who spoke only one language, irrespective of whether they had learned that second language during infancy, childhood or their teen years.

Studies have shown many young adults in their 20s and early 30s are better at tracking expenses and sticking to a budget than baby boomers, who are generally the parents of millennials.

Even though the current Millennials ages 25 to 32 are better educated than the generations of young adults who preceded them, 14 the survey found only one significant generational difference in the overall perceived value of their education in preparing them for a job and career — some 41 % of Millennials ages 25 to 32, 45 % of Gen Xers and 47 % of Baby Boomers say their schooling was «very useful» in getting them ready to enter the labor force.

Pew reports that «in their social and political views, young adults are clearly more accepting than older Americans of homosexuality, more inclined to see evolution as the best explanation of human life and less prone to see Hollywood as threatening their moral values.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

Sometimes they do better with kids who are younger than they are because the younger kids will adapt to them, and sometimes they'll do well with adults because adults can adapt to them.

There are some exceptions, but the majority of home schooled children are very good at getting along with others, and they are very comfortable talking to children of different ages (both younger and older than themselves), and to adults.

1999 Dr. Sears explains how babies sleep differently than adults, how sharing sleep can help the whole family sleep better, and encourages parents to have confidence in the own intuition and to be responsive to their babies and young children at night.

A study comparing the sleep habits of good sleepers and poor sleepers noted the people with worse - quality sleep spent more time on their backs than the good sleepers (Sleep positions in the young adult and their relationship with the subjective quality of sleep.

These are teenagers and young adults who (should) know better than to ingest laundry detergent.

If you're a transgender young adult who's been evicted from your home by your own parents, going into a single adult shelter could do more harm than good.

Gillibrand vowed to work in Congress to pass the DREAM Act to protect the immigrants, saying «we are better than needlessly targeting hardworking young adults to score crass partisan points.»

Young animals recover from tissue damage better than adults, and from Charles Darwin's time until now, scientists have puzzled over why this is the case.

In keeping with earlier studies, the older adults performed less well than the younger ones on the memory test, and showed significant reductions in the slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.

But children with those same genotypes from a high - income home would actually fare better economically as young adults than their brother or sister, said Emily Rauscher, a KU assistant professor of sociology.

Survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer often have stronger social networks than their non-cancer peers, according to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital researchers, who hope to translate that support into better lives for the nation's growing population of cancer survivors.

«In general, life gets better as you age in the sense that older adults on average have fewer hassles — and respond to them better — than younger adults,» said Carolyn Aldwin, a gerontology professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University and lead author on the study.

Young animals are able to recover from tissue damage much better than adults and can even regenerate tissues in the womb.

While this survey was only conducted on older adults — who typically have a harder time sleeping than younger people — it has implications for the larger population as well.

But Tucker can only speculate about the reasons for poor absorption of the vitamin from meat among younger adults or why B12 appears to be better absorbed from dairy products than from meats.

In fact, according to the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) in 2006, an increase in usage of flip - flop sandals by teens and young adults has led to an increase in heel pain.3 ACFAS spokesperson Marybeth Crane, DPM, has reported that practitioners are seeing more heel pain more than ever in patients 15 to 25 years old, noting that heel pain is a marker of plantar fasciitis which accounts for 15 % of all adult foot complaints.3 Furthermore, the ACFAS recommends that patients with heel pain should avoid flat shoes with paper - thin soles and should also avoid walking barefoot since wearing flat shoes (including flip - flops) and walking barefoot provides little cushioning as well as little to no arch support.3 This lack of arch support and cushioning of the heel while wearing flip - flops seems to exacerbate any abnormalities in the biomechanics of foot motion, and may perpetuate heel pain and inflammation.

As a result, STDs among young adults are growing at a much faster rate than the rest of the population; not just in Rhode Island but nationwide as well.

Importantly, this latter finding — especially the positive association between age and using online personals ads to find marital partners — suggests that older adults are not only more involved in the pursuit of romantic partners via the Internet than younger adults, but more serious in their pursuits, as well.

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It's meant for a much younger audience, and thus, will be received much better by kids than adults.

There might not be a better combination of director, writer, and star than Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody and Charlize Theron, who previously collaborated on the delightfully wicked «Young Adult» (Cody also penned the Oscar - winning screenplay for Reitman's «Juno»).

Also, the «young home cooks» are almost as good (if not better) than their adult counterparts!

Moving on - Fault in Our Stars is a very different sort of best - selling young adult novel - turned movie than Woodley and Elgort's previous collaboration.

This year, the snubs were fewer and less harsh than in years past (like that year they totally ignored three of the best films of the year in Drive, Take Shelter and Young Adult, and failed to nominate the year's best lead actress performances).

This is a fairy tale for adults, and there's a good reason: Young children aren't born with prejudice; they have to learn it, and they learn from watching their elders treating those who are different like they are less - than.

Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, collaborators on the Oscar - winning 2007 comedy Juno, have re-teamed on Young Adult, a dark comedic tour de force for Charlize Theron and a film which looks and presents better than it may actually truly be.

Based on the best - selling novels by Suzanne Collins, the «Hunger Games» movies have always been a little smarter and a little more assured than their many competitors in the young - adult arena, and now the story comes to a close in «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2,» a sequel that, in a crowded field, winds up being one of the year's most satisfying popcorn movies.

It's also not the kind of movie that would normally interest me, but between the casting of Shailene Woodley and the almost unanimous admiration for the John Green novel on which it's based, there's a certain air to the project that suggests it'll be much better than the typical young adult book adaptation.

Some decisions were easy: to provide a program from 7th grade through graduation; to move students through the program on an individual basis; to ask our teachers to be well educated, but to act more as generalists than specialists; to keep teachers» student loads down, and to offer advisories instead of more formal and distant «guidance counseling»; to offer only one foreign language, but to expect all to learn it; to put our money into more adults, some of them young adults, rather than into high rents or new furniture.

Young adults who I've had the pleasure of teaching years ago have come back to say that I was a positive influence on their lives It doesn't get any better than that.

I never really saw this coming, but after working on Rick's research team (YPRR: Young Peoples Romantic Relationships) and attending his Moral Adults: Moral Children class I got more than I had anticipated, in a good way of course.

In tests taken by 15 - and 16 - year - olds in 2012, before our education reforms had been implemented, England was the only country in the OECD in which the literacy and numeracy skills of young people were no better than those of their grandparents» generation: adults aged 55 - to - 65 performed better in literacy and numeracy than those aged 16 - to - 24.

Genre fiction books (fantasy, science fiction, erotica / romance, steampunk, paranormal) will need to be sold for less — less than 13 dollars — for the most part, as well as young adult books (younger audience, smaller wallets).

In the IndieReCon class above, she also discusses her own brand — the Ninja Writer icons, Writer's Dojo community etc, that she is better known for in the writing world, rather than discussing her Young Adult reader base for her fiction.

We represent more than 50 authors who write romance, women's fiction, science fiction / fantasy, thrillers, young adult and middle grade fiction as well as select nonfiction titles.

A treat for older, good readers, this will have a wider young adult appeal than that of The Sea Runners (1982).

I am sure this is another best seller, perfect for book clubs, definitely more of a woman's book than a man's, probably not as appreciated by the young adult audience as by someone who has lived, and suffered, and loved (Laura M).

In the year ending in January 2012, the American Association of Publishers reported that e-book sales had risen more than 49.4 % in the adult books category, 475.1 % in the children's and young adult category, and 150.7 % in the religious publications category.5 We at the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reported that ownership of e-book readers among adults age 18 and older had nearly doubled from 10 % of the population to 19 % over the holiday gift - giving season at the end of 2011, and ownership of tablet computers had surged a similar amount.6 In the final week of 2011 the e-book version of 42 of the top - selling 50 books on USA Today's best - seller book list was outselling the paper version of the same book.7