No, it doesn’t, if the point of the study and the experience here have no relation.
The study compares the happiness of youth over time. Nothing more. Whether some bloke had a bad youth and a great adulthood has absolutely zero relation to that.
In fact, I would argue that this complete blindness for the actual problems the youth faces today, is the reason why they are so miserable.
You’re basically on a similar path like the “just walk into the office and greet the manager with a firm handshake, then you’ll get a job” folks. You overemphasize past experiences because you don’t want to or are unable to understand that the world you grew up in is gone.
There is value in statistics, because it tells you about the ways the world works in general, the tendencies and relevant trends. There is value in casuistics, because it tells you about the diversity, the different and even rare phenomena that would be filtered out by statistics, but it’s good to know they exist.
No, it doesn’t, if the point of the study and the experience here have no relation.
The study compares the happiness of youth over time. Nothing more. Whether some bloke had a bad youth and a great adulthood has absolutely zero relation to that.
In fact, I would argue that this complete blindness for the actual problems the youth faces today, is the reason why they are so miserable.
You’re basically on a similar path like the “just walk into the office and greet the manager with a firm handshake, then you’ll get a job” folks. You overemphasize past experiences because you don’t want to or are unable to understand that the world you grew up in is gone.
There is value in statistics, because it tells you about the ways the world works in general, the tendencies and relevant trends. There is value in casuistics, because it tells you about the diversity, the different and even rare phenomena that would be filtered out by statistics, but it’s good to know they exist.
The article is a statistic. What’s been uttered here is just a bunch of anecdotes.