Old People Don't Remember That They Told You Something Already

You know how old people are always repeating stories that they’ve told you a hundred times already? Science has figured out why: they’re both stubborn and forgetful. “’Older adults are additionally highly confident, compared to younger adults, that they have never told people particular things when they actually had,’ study co-author Nigel Gopie, a cognitive scientist at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, said in a statement. ‘This over-confidence presumably causes older adults to repeat information to people.’” Now you know!