Iperconnessi. Perché i ragazzi oggi crescono meno ribelli, più tolleranti, meno felici e del tutto impreparati a diventare adulti

Sensationalist, cherry-picked, start-with-the-conclusion-you-want-and-work-back-from-there crap. Whatever university gave this person a PhD (as they proudly display on the book cover) has some serious explaining to do. The author's research methods are spurious and would get her laughed out of any s Leggi tutto

If you are reading this review, according to the cornucopia of research offered in this book, you are unlikely to be an iGen’er. “By 2015, one out of three high school seniors admitted they had not read any books for pleasure in the past year, three times as many as in 1976.” While Professor Twenge Leggi tutto

I was introduced to Jean Twenge's iGen thesis in a recent article in The Atlantic and actually thought I'd ask my kids their thoughts on it, when I found out it was condensed from a new book that friends chose for our couples' bookclub. I'm glad I had the chance to read Ms. Twenge's expanded ideas.

Twenge's "research" is full of sweeping assumptions, cherry-picked data, and poor correlations that paint an exaggerated picture of this upcoming generation. It is disheartening to hear a voice who is so antagonistic toward this generation of students and who ignores the very real struggles of minor Leggi tutto

I strongly disliked this book. Part of me felt that the author had too much self interest wrapped up in making the "iGen" label stick (for the purpose of growing her consulting and advisory practice). Part of me felt that much of the analysis was far too simplistic -- lumping together many sub-segme Leggi tutto

I always nicknamed this professor from San Diego State University the "queen of correlations" and this book is hands down the feather in her illusory causality cap. While yes there is a high incidence of depression and anxiety amongst this generation, she purports that everything wrong with this gen Leggi tutto