Talk:Political views of Generation Z

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Excessive reliance on primary polling and sources that don't mention Generation Z.

Too many of the sources here are primary cites to polls or to sources that only talk vaguely about "young people" without specifying Gen Z. We should try to replace them with sources that discuss Generation Z by name, since many more such sources are available now and since there's a significant risk of WP:OR / WP:SYNTH given that definitions of generations can vary. Aquillion (talk) 16:31, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Generation Z is simply a term for a group of people born between certain years. If a source polls people from that age range without explicitly mentioning "Generation Z", why should it matter? That just seems unnecessarily restrictive. BappleBusiness^[talk] 04:07, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Well, one problem is that many of the sources don't specifically focus on Gen Z as an age range (a lot of them just talk about "younger voters" or "people under 35" or other age ranges that can't meaningfully be described as mapping to Gen Z.) Another problem is that the definition of Gen Z is vague, so if an editor adds a poll that doesn't mention Gen Z, they're using their personal opinion to define it, which isn't acceptable. And the ultimate problem is that ultimately our job is to report how sources have characterized Gen Z, specifically, as a group. Using polls directly for that is already something to do with caution (since they're WP:PRIMARY sources; we can use them in some situations but shouldn't have sections that are nothing but primary sources.) Using a poll that has an age range that sort of corresponds to Gen Z, but which doesn't call it Gen Z, is getting to the point of performing WP:OR / WP:SYNTH; if it's true that those polls represent significant aspects of Gen Z then it should be easy to find sources saying such. Otherwise we run the risk of individual editors digging up random polls from any poll, anywhere, that has ever broken their results down by age, and pulling out whatever random aspects form those polls that they personally feel are important, then treating that as defining aspects of Gen Z - at that point it's definitely WP:OR. Here's how I would put it: If a poll mentions Gen Z by name, then we can include it as a primary source; and if a secondary source covering a poll describes the generational cohort in a way that unambiguously maps directly to Gen Z, then we can include that, too, even if they don't use Gen Z by name. But primary citations to polls that don't mention Gen Z strikes me as a hard no - that's inviting WP:OR / WP:SYNTH. There is a ton of secondary coverage about Gen Z's political beliefs now, so if someone is trying to make an argument using nothing but a primary source to a poll that doesn't mention Gen Z at all, that seems to me to be a red alarm that what they're trying to add probably doesn't have enough coverage to be WP:DUE to begin with. --Aquillion (talk) 21:46, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

What is NPOV violation re File:20240625_Global_warming_across_generations_-_warming_stripes.svg ?

20240625 Global warming across generations - warming stripes.svg

@Trakking: What about this graphic violates WP:NPOV? It contains objective temperatures and objectively described generations, similar to Climate Central's chart titled "Born in a warming world". —RCraig09 (talk) 20:02, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Trakking I'm looking forward to hearing your reasoning. —RCraig09 (talk) 03:46, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Trakking I'm looking forward to hearing your reasoning. —RCraig09 (talk) 20:01, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

American bias in the preamble

This article is about Generation Z in the Western world, but the preamble describes exclusively American youth, with an American understanding of "leftism/rightism". For Europe, such descriptions as "progressive and pro-government" and "a more favorable view of socialism than previous generations" are far from unambiguous, which is emphasized below in the article, where it is written that the far-right is most popular among young people. The article needs to be either edited or renamed to "Political views of Generation Z in the US" 188.32.244.225 (talk) 10:08, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Comparison with other generations is necessary

Just saying what the position of a certain generation is in isolation isn't enough. What is important is not just which view is most common or which party is most popular in the generation in question, but also whether its prevalence is greater or lesser than in other generations. When a certain position or party prevails in a certain country across the board at a given moment, this will be true of the generation in question as well, but it may be more so or less so than in the population at large. Articles in the media usually say things like 'Compared to their parents / to other generations, Generation Z are more likely / less likely to support/oppose X'. By often just giving the positions of Generation Z respondents outside of any broader social context, this article is much less informative. 62.73.72.3 (talk) 18:03, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Some sources reporting a rightward shift in Gen-Z (white) men

1. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/aug/07/gen-z-voters-political-ideology-gender-gap

2. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/aug/05/young-men-voters-us-election-trump-harris

3. https://jacobin.com/2024/09/walz-vance-masculinity-gen-z

These reports should be reflected in the article. 62.73.72.3 (talk) 09:33, 13 September 2024 (UTC)