{"id":1137,"date":"2016-05-08T00:38:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T07:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2018-02-24T09:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T17:46:40","slug":"the-myth-of-the-ever-more-fragile-college-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of the Ever-More-Fragile College Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-08-at-12.35.07-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1139\" src=\"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-08-at-12.35.07-AM-300x198.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-08 at 12.35.07 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-08-at-12.35.07-AM-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-08-at-12.35.07-AM.png 532w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><cite class=\"credit\">Photo by Matthieu Spohn for New York Magazine: Science of Us<br \/>\n<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>New York Magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/scienceofus\/\">Science of Us<\/a> website, which features articles related to human behavior, shared this<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/scienceofus\/2015\/11\/myth-of-the-fragile-college-student.html\">\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0 by <span class=\"by-authors\" data-editable=\"bylines\"><a class=\"article-author\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/author\/Jesse%20Singal\/\" rel=\"author\">Jesse Singal<\/a><\/span> debunking what has been a creeping assumption among media outlets, college counselors and other alarmists that Millennials are fragile, anxious and unfit for the &#8220;real world,&#8221; and have been coddled and weakened by our overweening, infantilizing society.<\/p>\n<p>Cultural critics posit that today&#8217;s college-aged young adults are becoming more stressed, anxious, depressed and generally emotionally frail than ever before, and they say that colleges and society in general are babying them and causing increased neuroticism. This long, extremely detailed and well-researched article points to evidence that those who believe that today&#8217;s youth are going to Hell in a handbasket rely too much on their own confirmation bias; undervalue the importance of huge socioeconomic changes over the past decade (including a deep and damaging recession); and, most importantly, ignore actual metrics and provable data that show their negative assumptions about Millennials to be overblown at best and highly inaccurate at worst.<\/p>\n<p>Those who deride Millennials often extrapolate from small samples while ignoring actual, repeatable results from larger longitudinal studies at colleges across the nation. I highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/scienceofus\/2015\/11\/myth-of-the-fragile-college-student.html\">this article<\/a> for a more factually based and nuanced perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Matthieu Spohn for New York Magazine: Science of Us New York Magazine&#8217;s Science of Us website, which features articles related to human behavior, shared this\u00a0article\u00a0 by Jesse Singal debunking what has been a creeping assumption among media outlets, college counselors and other alarmists that Millennials are fragile, anxious and unfit for the &#8220;real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/?p=1137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Myth of the Ever-More-Fragile College Student<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28],"tags":[937,933,831,942,331,941,940,934,932,938,935,939,936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauragrey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}