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Old 05-26-16 | 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by RollCNY
Categorizing people into "generations" by the year of the birth is a tool for marketing and statisticians to be lazy. You cannot predict a person's beliefs, desires, or attitudes based upon 18 year buckets. Among my siblings and I, we have two "Gen X" and two "Baby Boomers", and last I checked we were of the same generation (one uterine canal from my parents).

Discussions of what a "generation" is doing are as pointless as discussions on which frame material is best.
Indeed, in fact that was the gist of the article, generational generalizations. Say that 3x fast.
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