You just saw a story on the news that reported older women's IQ drops dramatically after the age of 60. This result was concluded from comparisons of women born in 1910-1930 and women born between 1960-1980. Based on this information, the criticism you would be likely to make would be that

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Cohort effects, meaning that the differences in IQ scores could be attributed to the differences in education, social norms, and other cultural factors between the groups born in different time periods, are more likely to be responsible for the observed differences than age alone. The absence of men in the study or issues with longitudinal research design are not mentioned in the prompt, and the suggestion that the researchers have a bias against older women is unfounded.

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