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Correlation does not imply causation.
Boomers could also be unaware they were victims of most of these. They think internet scams start and end with nigerian princes
I mean, they did elect a meme president. What bigger scam can you think of?
What about millennials then? We spend a lot of time online and yet are doing better
We're the ones doing the scamming
Roblox shareholders: *collective nod*
Child labor has never been easier!
We don't have 15-year-old immature brains. Gen z are lovely bunch, but many of their brains are still baking.
Brains finish developing around 25. But that's not really the point. Many of them are young and that will move the results of the group enough.
Years go fast my man, gen z can be up to 26 years old
Millennials sure lost a shit ton of money to crypto scams over the past 6 years.
The difference I think is that we grew up with the technology. We saw the democratisation of the internet which makes us generally "smarter" on that front. We also had to fiddle and understand the technology more than Gen Z has to. It's also probably far easier to scam/get scammed nowadays with crypto bros and influencers being absolutely everywhere.
There is actually a rather legitimate understandable reason why boomers may not self report ; shame and fear their children will no longer trust them to take care of themselves.
Also would like to add this included cyberbullying and that had to inflate the numbers. How many boomers are victims of bullying vs students?
That's what the article is saying as well (but nobody reads those)
Inter-generational criticism is the resort of a bitter and stupid person, no matter the generation in question.
Oh wow thanks so much for the free psychoanalysis. Now do you - what does it say about you that you make ad hominem attacks against people you've never met on internet forums and then get downvoted for it?
That I speak my mind and have unpopular opinions. I'm not ashamed of it.
You should be.
I’m curious: are you the kind of person who thinks all generalizations are bad?
Generalizations are, by definition, inaccurate. I don't know if that's what you mean by "bad," but if it is, that's not my opinion, it's just what the word means.
The context for this convo seems missing, not sure what happened…. Anyway, this is generally what I’d say about generalizations:
Well, some people seem to be of the mind that generalizations are always bad, as in morally wrong.
And generalizations, based on evidence, are a recognition of a pattern. Depending on the generalization, it can be potentially very useful.
Like brightly colored animals aren’t safe to eat. That’s a good (more accurate than not) and useful generalization.
It depends on the amount and quality of evidence used in the creation of the generalization, and probably the intelligence of the generalizer.
Though I don’t recall the point I was trying to Make.