Human Growth and Development / Unit 1 HGD 0048 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Cohorts, Not Generations
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The idea
A cohort effect is the influence of a shared experience on people of about the same age at the same historical time.
In practice
Gen X, born about nineteen sixty-five to nineteen eighty, as digital immigrants to later cohorts' digital natives.
Where people slip
Cohort is more accurate than generation, which invites age stereotyping. A cohort is a shared history, not a shared personality.
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