It is inevitable & at times quite sobering that we all have different views. Hell, we wouldn't find this forum so interesting if it weren't like that !
What I would like to see is the age & sex i.e. M28 / F35 of participants. I assume that most opinions are formed by experience however, there appear to be a lot of comments based merely on ideology. I believe it would be beneficial to be aware of the participants age in discussion as mentality varies enormously between age, sex, experience & ignorance. Would there be a greater difference of opinion in age than from experience vs theory ?
Ok I volunteer M58.

Why, so their opinion can be disregarded based on age and sex?

IF they give that then they've got to spend their time defending themselves from someone like yourself who WILL use age as an attack.

Age and sex is irrelevant, on the whole. Unless it's pertinent to a discussion, it's none of your business. Imagine the flak a 20 something female would cop here.

I agree StG
No need for age and sex but 55/M
Thanks
Dave

Stg,
I can appreciate your apprehension but I would not use my age to "attack" someone younger but I most certainly offer my personal experiences over the years to hopefully enlighten younger people. Come to think of it, what you refer to as attack is in the majority of cases on OLO an attempt to offer younger people an insight to others' experiences. To simply dismiss such explanations because they don't happen to echo one's mentality is in my personal opinion merely defending ignorance for the sake of ego. I'm by no means saying that older people are automatically wiser than young, not by a mile.
Look at some of our retired politicians ? Would you say that they were wiser in their younger days than many young people today ? I don't think so but they still cost us a lot of money to keep them, money that would be much wiser spent on projects for the younger community.
But, as long as the young are constantly fed perpetuating fables about those former politicians & others in authority then how can anyone expect the young to ever form a different & more enlightened view of things around them.

What about Political party, footy club affiliation and hat size?
Seriously merely reading the posts properly will give you a clear approximation, if that is relevant.
I was amused by the association with any of the listed criteria to the quality of the post.

intelligence, wisdom, wit, commonsense are neither age or gender dependent.

I would suggest I've met young adults that display more of the above than some of our more senior posters.
I have often come across individuals 40 years experience boils down to 40 X one year and vise versa.

Might I humbly suggest that if you can't tell then it's irrelevant and if you can tell it doesn't matter.

intelligence, wisdom, wit, commonsense are neither age or gender dependent.
You're right Examinator, they're not dependent at all. When no intelligent retort is at hand people of every age & tend to resort to ridicule.