Senior apparently means most experienced and most skilled. I beg to differ
In my line of work, the most safety conscious are actually the recently graduated.
Here is one way to think about seniors vs juniors performance:
The most senior rely on experience which is often manifested as rapid, automatic and probability thinking - fast. So a lot of them portray “decisiveness”. And they sometimes become bold, and often faster. Most of the time they win the probability game but as with all chance they will get it wrong eventually, sometimes often - you can’t always beat the house.
The younger ones due to inexperience are generally slower thinking, requiring effort and higher cognitive bandwidth but they often have less error. They portray carefulness
Which is better?. Is fast better than slow?. Mix of both?. Sometimes need fast and automatic but often slow deliberate is required. Decisive vs careful
Our seniors are also off the on call roster after 60yrs (age). They don’t perform as well generally in the out of hours space compared to the juniors.
Here is an interesting article on fast and slow thinking and
Heuristics (error) in the medical field.
That’s one reason why checklists have memory items at the top (fast) but line by line later (slow)