I hope this just means I'm late to the party, not that it's all downhill from here...
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Personally, I don't know ANYONE who experienced the "peak of life satisfaction" at 23.
Most people that age are still confused about what they want to do with their lives and sweating off some leftover hormones from the teen years. It's more chaotic than satisfying, I think.
Edit: also, having a child at 26 sounds like hell.
I think that's a problem with using the average age for everything. A bunch of people think their lives peaked in High School and a bunch of other people think it was in their late 20s/early 30s, which averages out to 23. But I suspect almost no one thinks the peak of their life was age 23. Median would be a more appropriate measure here.
I wonder how people who don’t have kids affect the average. Assuming they just get dropped?