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College students think they're more special than EVAR (but they're not)
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Date: January 07, 2013 08:40PM
How college students think they are more special than EVER: Study reveals rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 15:30 EST, 5 January 2013 | UPDATED: 14:29 EST, 7 January 2013
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Self-love: New data suggests students today are convinced of their own greatness regardless of whether they've accomplished anything
Up, up and away! Over the past 50 years American students have increasingly grown confident not only socially but also about their own writing and intellect skills and their confidence in leadership ability
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Books aside, if you asked a college freshman today who the Greatest Generation is, they might respond by pointing in a mirror.
Young people's unprecedented level of self-infatuation was revealed in a new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has been asking students to rate themselves compared to their peers since 1966.
Roughly 9 million young people have taken the survey over the last 47 years.
Psychologist Jean Twenge and her colleagues compiled the data and found that over the last four decades there's been a dramatic rise in the number of students who describe themselves as being 'above average' in the areas of academic ability, drive to achieve, mathematical ability, and self-confidence.
But in appraising the traits that are considered less invidualistic - co-operativeness, understanding others, and spirituality - the numbers either stayed at slightly decreased over the same period.
Researchers also found a disconnect between the student's opinions of themselves and actual ability.
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 15:30 EST, 5 January 2013 | UPDATED: 14:29 EST, 7 January 2013
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Self-love: New data suggests students today are convinced of their own greatness regardless of whether they've accomplished anything
Up, up and away! Over the past 50 years American students have increasingly grown confident not only socially but also about their own writing and intellect skills and their confidence in leadership ability
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Books aside, if you asked a college freshman today who the Greatest Generation is, they might respond by pointing in a mirror.
Young people's unprecedented level of self-infatuation was revealed in a new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has been asking students to rate themselves compared to their peers since 1966.
Roughly 9 million young people have taken the survey over the last 47 years.
Psychologist Jean Twenge and her colleagues compiled the data and found that over the last four decades there's been a dramatic rise in the number of students who describe themselves as being 'above average' in the areas of academic ability, drive to achieve, mathematical ability, and self-confidence.
But in appraising the traits that are considered less invidualistic - co-operativeness, understanding others, and spirituality - the numbers either stayed at slightly decreased over the same period.
Researchers also found a disconnect between the student's opinions of themselves and actual ability.
Re: College students think they're more special than EVAR (but they're not)
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fairfaxunderground_
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Date: January 07, 2013 08:44PM
I bet a college freshman wrote that article.
Re: College students think they're more special than EVAR (but they're not)
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It's Freshperson
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Date: January 07, 2013 08:45PM
fairfaxunderground_ Wrote:
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> I bet a college freshman wrote that article.
You would.
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> I bet a college freshman wrote that article.
You would.
Re: College students think they're more special than EVAR (but they're not)
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BEH
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Date: January 08, 2013 01:27PM
More often than not, the bigger mess a person is, the bigger ego they seem to have.
Re: College students think they're more special than EVAR (but they're not)
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bout rite
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Date: January 08, 2013 01:45PM
Damn punks who rarely take advice.