… once you get to know them: Millennial Mongers | The Weekly Standard. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The empathy the millennials were eager to talk about was their own. A typical remark: “One said he hoped to succeed because ‘the better you’re doing, the more you can help other people.’ ”Pollsters call this “self-reporting”—a respondent characterizing his own intentions and tendencies and states of mind. It is a staple of generational analysis. A respondent tends to look pretty good when he describes himself; pollsters rarely hear a respondent say, for example, that when it comes to other people, he really doesn’t give a damn. (“And you can quote me!”) Indeed, for the generational analyst, the quickest way to determine how empathetic a millennial is, is to ask him. Most of the piles of data analysts use to prove the vastness of millennials’ social conscience comes from the mouths of the millennials themselves.
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