Thread about book about generations. Gonna try updating it as I read through the book instead of Tweeting it all at the end. amazon.com/Generations-Di…
Rise of individualist phrases in books:
Different generations opinions on interracial marriage:
5.5% of silent generation men had a male sex partner, 2.3% of silent generation women had a female sex partner.
Young people got a lot more anxious during Covid:
The rise of "identity", and "unique"
% of Americans receiving the top 10 most common names:
Shrinking happiness gap between blacks and whites:
The rise of Boomer Republicans:
Depression by Income level and birth year:
The fall and rise of age of first sex:
The rise of people saying they are important:
Percentage of adults who are Republican, controlling for age:
Gen X, the lost generation:
The rise and fall of narcissism:
Narrative of poor millennials overblown:
Decline in marriage rate:
1/8 Millenial men have had gay sex:
Trends in depression by age group:
Decline in time spent socializing:
The first generation to think there are more than 2 genders:
The rise of Trans and non-binary:
Rise in FTM transgender:
Trans trend not limited to blue states:
Decline in support for free speech:
Rise of feeling lonely and left out:
Nearly 1/3 teenage girls are clinically depressed:
Emergency room admissions for self-harm:
Decline in healthy habits:
Rise in pessimism:
Smooth increase in people who think founders were villains:
Increase in 12th grade boys identifying as conservative:
Young Republicans are somewhat socially liberal:
Younger Republicans more likely to favor bigger government:
Most colleges have racially segregated graduation ceremonies:
High School Seniors care less about fashionable clothes:
Trends can change or reverse, but right now it looks like the future will be:
-Less white
-More politically left
-Less social, and less mentally healthy
-More risk averse
-More overweight
-More LGBT
-Less trustful of other people and major institutions
-More individualistic
1/ Short thread. Meadow Pollack was an 18 year old student at Parkland High School with dreams of becoming an attorney. She was fatally shot as she draped her body over a younger student attempting to protect her.
2/ In the aftermath of the shooting, her father tried to figure out what policies lead to her death and teamed up with a researcher to write this book. amazon.com/Why-Meadow-Die…
3/ Here are some excerpts from this book. The book goes through all of the ways in which in which the shooting could have been prevented. If the shooter had a criminal record of one of the serious crimes that he committed he would not have been able to legally purchase a firearm.
1/ Short thread. What was the "best" year if you were to judge it solely by paying to attention to the news and not Pinkeresque metrics like child mortality in Lesotho?
2/ For the purpose of this thread we will look at years 1992 and onwards since this is when the cold war was over. We can immediately exclude years like 1994, 2001, 2004, and 2020 due to major world events.
3/ Next lets exclude every year with more than 100,000 combat deaths. That gets rid of 1999, 2013-2017 and 2021 onwards.