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Today you learn about why if you complain about kids these days,

your memory may be to blame.

Whether a full moon really leads to strange behavior,

and whether calculus can help us solve the mysteries of quantum mechanics

with special guest Stephen Strogats.

Would satisfy some curiosity.

Do you ever shake your fist and complain about kids these days?

You're not alone.

It seems like pretty much every generation has thought that today's youth are a sorry bunch.

For example, every generation has believed that the kids of their day were ruining the English language.

But we're still producing great literature, right?

So why do people grow up to think this way?

Well, a new study argues that these beliefs have less to do with the kids themselves

and more to do with the memory and self-image of the people who hold these opinions.

A paper published last month in science advances looked at the opinions of

more than 3,500 American adults, including their opinions about whether children are respectful, intelligent, and well-read,

and their opinions of whether they themselves are respectful, intelligence, and well-read. The researchers predicted that when participants rated themselves high on one of those traits now,

they would also rate young people as lower in that trait

than the participant was at their age.

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