• thesmokingman
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    11 months ago

    The article says

    aged 50 to 65—roughly correlating with the baby boomer generation

    My phrasing does seem a bit awkward. I was trying to say “the article uses the age range 50 to 65 and Boomers fall into the upper half of that age range. Gen X is solidly the bottom half of that age range.”

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      11 months ago

      Baby boom began in 1945, after the war when the troops came home.

      The oldest of the baby boom are almost 80.

      Not sure how the article did the math, but…