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🗓️ 20 October 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service, your statistical guide to the world all |
0:07.5 | around us. |
0:08.5 | I'm Charlotte McDonald. |
0:09.5 | And I'm Jordan Dunbar. |
0:11.3 | Just a warning, before we get started, on this week's program, you will only be hearing |
0:15.6 | from millennials. |
0:16.6 | That's myself, obviously, Charlotte. |
0:18.8 | Yep. |
0:19.8 | And our guest, Kevin. |
0:21.2 | I would probably consider myself as one, yes. |
0:24.4 | My name is Kevin Lin. |
0:26.1 | I'm a fourth-year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University and I study in the statistics department. |
0:33.4 | For those who are always wondering what a millennial actually is, there seem to be various definitions. |
0:38.6 | The most broad I've seen suggests it's people born between 1980 and 2003. |
0:44.1 | If you listened to our podcast a few weeks ago, you may have heard Tim Hartford mocking me |
0:48.6 | about how much millennials spend on breakfast. |
0:51.9 | I recently read a tweet from the Bon Appetit lifestyle blog, which claimed that the average |
0:58.2 | millennial spends all by himself $96 billion on food. |
1:06.2 | That's one big breakfast. |
1:07.7 | Well, I am joined in the studio by an average millennial, Jordan Dunbar. |
1:11.7 | Hello, Jordan. |
1:12.7 | Hi, Tim. |
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