• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    the upper range of 50 to 65

    Pretty sure you mean 1950 to 1965; 65 is full boomer and the oldest Gen Xer is roughly 57 now (1966).

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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…