Age and the Acceptance of Cliometrics
检验了年龄是否影响科学家接受新理论，发现出生年份虽统计显著，但仅能解释不到10%的接受度差异。
Popular wisdom asserts, and life-cycle theories of human capital investment seem to imply, that older scientists are slower to accept new theories than are younger scientists. When this view is tested with evidence on the acceptance of cliometrics, however, the year-of-birth variable, although statistically significant, explains less than 10 percent of the variance in acceptance.