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The broadening of the millennial range is a noticeable trend. I chalk it up to the agenda of any given article author.

dragonwriter 8y ago
> The broadening of the millennial range is a noticeable trend Broadening from what base? It was open-ended when coined, and the people who coined I later proposed a 2004 cutoff; most definitions in use are narrower, not broader (though some start earlier.)
- scruple 8y ago
  Broadening in the sense that I was in generation X for the first thirty-odd years of my life but then in recent years I've been lumped in with millennials. edit/ You're even admitting to observing the same thing, are you not, by commenting on the dynamic nature of the starting range?
  - dragonwriter 8y ago
    > Broadening in the sense that I was in generation X for the first thirty-odd years of my life but then in recent years I've been lumped in with millennials. That's...improbable. While there is a range of starting dates for the Millenials, I'm pretty sure it was within a few years of the term be coined in 1987 that the current range of common starting dates (roughly 1977-1982, with two most common, in descending order of frequency of use, being 1981 and 1977) was reached. > You're even admitting to observing the same thing, are you not, by commenting on the dynamic nature of the starting range No, acknowledging that there have long been differences between different sources as to the start (and even moreso historically, though less currently, end) dates is not the same as claiming that there is a trend of broadening. If there is a trend, it's of narrowing. Pretty much no one now uses the 2004 end date the original users of the phrase stated in 2012, and while ending dates as late as 1999-2000 were once common (a very common definition was Millenials are those born in the 1980s or 1990s), most sources seem to now use an end date of 1996.

> The broadening of the millennial range is a noticeable trend Broadening from what base? It was open-ended when coined, and the people who coined I later proposed a 2004 cutoff; most definitions in use are narrower, not broader (though some start earlier.)

scruple 8y ago
Broadening in the sense that I was in generation X for the first thirty-odd years of my life but then in recent years I've been lumped in with millennials. edit/ You're even admitting to observing the same thing, are you not, by commenting on the dynamic nature of the starting range?
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Broadening in the sense that I was in generation X for the first thirty-odd years of my life but then in recent years I've been lumped in with millennials. That's...improbable. While there is a range of starting dates for the Millenials, I'm pretty sure it was within a few years of the term be coined in 1987 that the current range of common starting dates (roughly 1977-1982, with two most common, in descending order of frequency of use, being 1981 and 1977) was reached. > You're even admitting to observing the same thing, are you not, by commenting on the dynamic nature of the starting range No, acknowledging that there have long been differences between different sources as to the start (and even moreso historically, though less currently, end) dates is not the same as claiming that there is a trend of broadening. If there is a trend, it's of narrowing. Pretty much no one now uses the 2004 end date the original users of the phrase stated in 2012, and while ending dates as late as 1999-2000 were once common (a very common definition was Millenials are those born in the 1980s or 1990s), most sources seem to now use an end date of 1996.