Why is it that when non-famous people are quoted in the news media, their ages are always given? Just about every story in the paper features a sentence like:<\/p>\n
\n“Of course, I’m aware of the wave nature of matter,” said Tallulah Johnstone Black, 47, a homemaker from Waterloo who witnessed the incident while walking to the store, “But I never thought I’d see an elephant diffract.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Unless the story is about age specifically, I don’t see the point. What am I supposed to do with that information?<\/p>\n
Stranger still, the one time I was interviewed by the police as a witness to a “domestic disturbance” across the street, the cop made a point of asking my age. Not date of birth, or anything that could be used to confirm my identity, but my age. Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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