Will any generation not insist their children are going to inevitable ruin for the technology they adopt?
One of the key complaints about global warming: scientists were wrong about climate in the past, so therefore they're wrong now.
for the most part, they're safe, and much less dangerous than other similar disruptive technologies.
He seems to have some evidence to back him up? Here's a summary of his points:
"12th-graders in 2015 were going out less often than eighth-graders did as recently as 2009."
"But only about 56 percent of high-school seniors in 2015 went out on dates; for Boomers and Gen Xers, the number was about 85 percent."... "The teen birth rate hit an all-time low in 2016, down 67 percent since its modern peak, in 1991."
"Nearly all Boomer high-school students had their driver’s license by the spring of their senior year; more than one in four teens today still lack one at the end of high school."... "In conversation after conversation, teens described getting their license as something to be nagged into by their parents—a notion that would have been unthinkable to previous generations."
"The number of teens who get together with their friends nearly every day dropped by more than 40 percent from 2000 to 2015"
"But recent research suggests that screen time, in particular social-media use, does indeed cause unhappiness. One study asked college students with a Facebook page to complete short surveys on their phone over the course of two weeks. They’d get a text message with a link five times a day, and report on their mood and how much they’d used Facebook. The more they’d used Facebook, the unhappier they felt, but feeling unhappy did not subsequently lead to more Facebook use."
"Forty-eight percent more girls said they often felt left out in 2015 than in 2010"
"Teens who spend three hours a day or more on electronic devices are 35 percent more likely to have a risk factor for suicide, such as making a suicide plan. (That’s much more than the risk related to, say, watching TV.)"
There's a gazillion more stats, but you get the gist.
If I chose to stop working at 60 because I have enough money to retire, why should I count as unemployed?
Because you aren't employed.
But you need to account differently people not working because they are studying, people that are working but would like a different job, people that are working but not full time, people that stopped looking because they do not believe they can find a job.
Why? If you need something finer grained, you could say 80% employed, 12% unemployed but in education or financially-self sufficient, 5% unemployed but looking for work, 3% unemployed and not looking. No need to call people employed when they aren't. That just confuses the issue of the amount of useful work being produced.
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I'm sure this same scenario is true for someone with a son, so how is gender the determining factor?
XKCD said it well.
ask them the difference between "average" and "mean" and see what the average answers are
I see what you did there.
Reminds me of another one: "Scientists" say the ship is sinking. Then why is my end 200 feet in the air?
Will any generation not insist their children are going to inevitable ruin for the technology they adopt?
One of the key complaints about global warming: scientists were wrong about climate in the past, so therefore they're wrong now.
for the most part, they're safe, and much less dangerous than other similar disruptive technologies.
He seems to have some evidence to back him up? Here's a summary of his points:
"12th-graders in 2015 were going out less often than eighth-graders did as recently as 2009."
"But only about 56 percent of high-school seniors in 2015 went out on dates; for Boomers and Gen Xers, the number was about 85 percent."... "The teen birth rate hit an all-time low in 2016, down 67 percent since its modern peak, in 1991."
"Nearly all Boomer high-school students had their driver’s license by the spring of their senior year; more than one in four teens today still lack one at the end of high school."... "In conversation after conversation, teens described getting their license as something to be nagged into by their parents—a notion that would have been unthinkable to previous generations."
"The number of teens who get together with their friends nearly every day dropped by more than 40 percent from 2000 to 2015"
"But recent research suggests that screen time, in particular social-media use, does indeed cause unhappiness. One study asked college students with a Facebook page to complete short surveys on their phone over the course of two weeks. They’d get a text message with a link five times a day, and report on their mood and how much they’d used Facebook. The more they’d used Facebook, the unhappier they felt, but feeling unhappy did not subsequently lead to more Facebook use."
"Forty-eight percent more girls said they often felt left out in 2015 than in 2010"
"Teens who spend three hours a day or more on electronic devices are 35 percent more likely to have a risk factor for suicide, such as making a suicide plan. (That’s much more than the risk related to, say, watching TV.)"
There's a gazillion more stats, but you get the gist.
The following represents the tears I have shed:
Poor fellow. Looks like they shorted out his keyboard.
If I chose to stop working at 60 because I have enough money to retire, why should I count as unemployed?
Because you aren't employed.
But you need to account differently people not working because they are studying, people that are working but would like a different job, people that are working but not full time, people that stopped looking because they do not believe they can find a job.
Why? If you need something finer grained, you could say 80% employed, 12% unemployed but in education or financially-self sufficient, 5% unemployed but looking for work, 3% unemployed and not looking. No need to call people employed when they aren't. That just confuses the issue of the amount of useful work being produced.