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People on the borderlines often are overlooked. I'm an old GenX, a few years too young to be a Boomer, and even the younger Boomers grew up with a quite differe
by SoftTalker 3mo ago
People on the borderlines often are overlooked. I'm an old GenX, a few years too young to be a Boomer, and even the younger Boomers grew up with a quite different experience than the mainline Boomer generation. And I was already an adult and married by the main part of the GenX era.
- ourmandave 3mo agoDividing generations across decades might work for marketing to them in general, but it's otherwise about as useful as horoscopes and the BMI scale.
- saalweachter 3mo agoDuodecades are superior to decades, and we can take overlapping pairs of duodecades as "generations" to solve the dividing line problem. Duodecades: * 1968-1980 * 1980-1992 * 1992-2004 * 2004-2016 * 2016-2028 Overlapping generations: * GenX: 1968-1992 * Millennial: 1980-2004 * GenZ: 1992-2016
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- hdgvhicv 3mo agoPrecise boundaries are clearly problematic but you can’t claim that someone born in the late 60s had the same type of global view that someone born in the late 80s did.
- fryanyway_swe 3mo agoThe BMI scale is useful. Yes, athletes and bodybuilders it may not be accurate for, but being on HN I think you are neither :) Currently, I am at 20 BMI, for reference.
- lubujackson 3mo agoI feel like looking at a photo to judge how fat they are is probably equally effective tbh. It is a rule of thumb at best.
- aaronbrethorst 3mo agoYou might be Generation Jones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones
- SoftTalker 3mo agoI'm slightly younger than that, but certainly shared parts of their experiences. Closer to Jones than Boomer for sure. And my father was too young for WWII and too old for Vietnam so I have no direct ties to either of those experiences.