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Stop Thinking You Know How Things Have Changed…Go Measure it

2025-09-08

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<p>Claims that “kids these days” are in decline persist across eras. These complaints, however, rest largely on biased intuitions rather than rigorous evidence. It is not the case that everyone else before was wrong about decline but this time we are finally right. We highlight how intuitions of the generational decline are due to researchers being odd. Judgments are further distorted by misperceptions of the pres...

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bbb9b860-2717-576a-bf19-622dec44321e
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10.31234/osf.io/4v6mf_v1
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