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Is it just me or are most responses here made without reading the linked tweet thread? I'm wondering how much signal there is in the years in his excerpts. For
by whacked_new 4y ago
Is it just me or are most responses here made without reading the linked tweet thread?
I'm wondering how much signal there is in the years in his excerpts. For example, he shows an excerpt from 1981, then jumps to 1999. Is this simply because he just found a few examples across the years and used those, or were there actually less reports during those 18 years?
- SilverBirch 4y agoI think you're putting too much faith in the authors of the excerpts. It's not like the authors have actually identified a statistical pattern that can be shown in data. It's not like this article gets written when some pattern emerges. It's just a dumb and lazy trope to throw out whenever an author wants to moan about kids these days. It's based on stupidity, nothing more. The first except is written today, in the UK, whilst the unemployment rate is at the lowest level in recorded history. There's literally a quote in there from 1916, The middle of World War 1, are you honestly going to say there was a major crisis of Brits being lazy and unwilling to work hard in World War 1?