Forum: Do millennials differ in terms of survey participation?

Millennials have been the focus of quite some research because of their differences with older cohorts.

Introduction

Strauss and Howe (1991) define Millennials as the cohort of individuals born between 1982 and 2003. Millennials differ from other cohorts at several levels (Bowen & Chen McCain, 2015): in particular, Millennials are the first to have had, during their formative years, access to the Internet (Pew Research Center, 2014). Consequently, Millennials are the generation with the highest technology exposure (Hartman & McCambridge, 2011).

One of the main levels where Millennials seem to differ is their way to communicate. Indeed, Millennials' communicative skills have been found of lower quality than the ones of previous generations (Hartman & McCambridge, 2011)....

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