[shortcake27]

What makes you so sure the data in your study is truly representative of gen z?

A few months ago a study was posted on HN which claimed 30% of gen z supported police cameras being installed inside homes to protect against domestic violence.

Meanwhile, in Dunedin, the number of cameras on the street was reduced in consultation with university students (aka gen z).

How can both of these statements be true? The answer is, they aren’t- the study posted on HN was fearmongering, manipulated data, trying to discredit the younger generation, to get older people to vote a specific way.

I’m a millennial but I’m sick of this rhetoric that gen z are stupid / oblivious / complicit etc. They aren’t.

[abduhl]

It’s 30%: https://www.cato.org/blog/nearly-third-gen-z-favors-home-gov...

[shortcake27]

Thank you, I was looking for this but couldn’t find it. My comment has been corrected.

To anyone downvoting my original comment, take a look at CATO, the style of writing used in their blog posts, their other studies, and their mission statement, and decide for yourself - are they trying to accurately represent gen z, or are they pushing an agenda?

It seems like far-right-wing organisations are expending extensive effort in an attempt to discredit gen z as a generation who are happy to have all their rights sold away and/or eroded. Yet if you speak to a young person today, it doesn’t line up.

“I read a study that said X about gen z” isn’t evidence that gen z believes / does those things.

[tapland]

It was interesting because acceptance of surveillance in public was increasing with age, aside from GenZ > GenY.

It was apparently part of the Swedish Internet Foundations yearly survey ( https://svenskarnaochinternet.se/english/ ).