Thursday, April 2, 2015

How much of a Millennial are you? I'm 96%!

According to this Pew Research Center test "How Millennial Are You?"
Take our 14 item quiz and we�ll tell you how "Millennial" you are, on a scale from 0 to 100, by comparing your answers with those of respondents to a scientific nationwide survey.
I got there via this WaPo column titled "Your generational identity is a lie," by Philip Bump:
We obsess over our generations the way we obsess over our horoscopes, recognizing that it's a dumb approximation of who we are but mining every description for the details that we think are correct....

In its work, the Pew Research Center uses generational boundaries like "Millennial" (which it defines as those born between 1981 and 2000, a somewhat early end point compared to others). "They are somewhat arbitrary," said Kim Parker, director of social trends research at Pew, of the generational descriptors. But generations as a concept can be "a worthwhile tool for storytelling, taking a lot of data and trying to put it into an interesting prism that speaks to people."
Yeah, that does sound like a horoscope.

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