224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think
The Michael Shermer Show
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How Do You Know if It's a Life Cycle Effect or a Cohort Effect?
How do you know, if youre studying acts, that it's a life cycle effect or a period effect, or a cohort effect? Ye, hat's a really good question. There is also a generational effect in there when you can see each generattion getting slightly fatter than the one before. But then we just slide down into a similar sort of end point over time. I look at i plot li ines, just simple charp linesoer time by generation, not by age. So i track ot where pre war am wethe, pre war s ile generation, ar between 19 80 and to day, or wver the data ranges. And then baby boom
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