A review by jordanlgilbert
Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future by Jean M. Twenge

slow-paced

2.0

Talked with a friend about this last night so figured I'd jot my thoughts down sooner rather than later. I thought parts of this were really interesting, but I was distracted by some cherry-picking of data/generally not using it well and what seemed to me a general disregard of society as part of what shapes generations (outside of technology/values of people) - if felt like a disservice to make the conversation so much about individuals while brushing over the societal aspect of it all, especially for the later chapters. A personal gripe is that she says that while the majority of research/information has the cutoff between Millennials/Gen Z is 1996/1997, she chooses to keep using 1994/1995 based on one of her previous books, which ???? For someone drawing so much from data (disregarding how she uses it), it seems like a very strange choice and makes me wonder more about her other methods when it comes to the analysis of the data in the book.

Of course I am biased (as everyone is in some way!) in that I work with data and young people and data <i>about</i> young people, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, to each their own!