Generations

Question

Please explain to me like I’m 5
Why is the inconsistency in the age ranges of generations?
Lost Generation: 1883 – 1900 (17 Years)
The Greatest Generation: 1901 – 1927 (26 Years)
The Silent Generation: 1928 – 1945 (17 Years)
Baby Boomers: 1946 – 1964 (18 Years)
Generation X: 1965 – 1980 (15 Years)
Generation Y/Millennials: 1981 – 1996 (15 Years)
Generation Z: 1997 – 2012 (15 Years)
Gen Alpha: 2013 – Present (Currently 9 Years)

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Answer 1

Life-defining historical events. The great depression and WWII. Soldiers came home and had a family, causing a baby boom. That tapered off, but the wave of children from the end of WWII to that tapering off was about 18 years. After that they had kids in a second wave. The wave really became less noticeable after that, but people kinda generally decided that a “generation” is 15 years.

Personally, there’s a big split between me and anyone even a little younger that didn’t get their foot in the door before the econopocalypse.

The plague screwing over all the kids for 2 years of education is likely going to be a defining moment. All in favor of renaming Gen-Z to “plague rats”?

Answer 2

Life-defining historical events. The great depression and WWII. Soldiers came home and had a family, causing a baby boom. That tapered off, but the wave of children from the end of WWII to that tapering off was about 18 years. After that they had kids in a second wave. The wave really became less noticeable after that, but people kinda generally decided that a “generation” is 15 years.

Personally, there’s a big split between me and anyone even a little younger that didn’t get their foot in the door before the econopocalypse.

The plague screwing over all the kids for 2 years of education is likely going to be a defining moment. All in favor of renaming Gen-Z to “plague rats”?