How Do You Know if It's a Life Cycle Effect or a Cohort Effect?

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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

Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the same values. But, do they? Michael Shermer speaks with social researcher Bobby Duffy who has spent years studying generational distinctions. In The Generation Myth, he argues that our generational identities are not fixed but fluid, reforming throughout our lives. Based on an analysis of what over three million people really think about homeownership, sex, well-being, and more, Duffy offers a new model for understanding how generations form, how they shape societies, and why generational differences aren’t as sharp as we think.