The one that surprises me is TV. It has objectively improved in quality so much, it’s basically on par with movies at this point. Writing, acting, costuming, all of it. I’d never claim that TV from the 90s was superior to now, even though I was a teen back then.
TV now is kind of garbage because every show will have like 2 8 episode “seasons” with a 3 year gap in the middle. I appreciate the variety but it’s clear to me the industry hasn’t really recovered from the streaming era destroying the cash flow into the TV industry. The 90’s and early 2000’s are absolutely the peak of network TV IMO when it comes to big syndicated network shows like Star Trek Buffy stargate etc. but there are a much wider variety of shows today so it’s kind of a mixed bag
I’m way too analytical to fall into that curve, and I’m sure most people on Lemmy are like that too. Like, we literally have data going back decades on most of these metrics, so why are people even going with their gut? Quite a few are literally numbers you can check!
I’d be very interested to see the age distribution of the people who were polled. It just says 2000 adults, but if they were all around the same age then it may not all be matters of opinion, especially for things like “political division.”
Judging by the footnote, it’s YouGov which isn’t a very good poll typically. That said, it’s likely got enough people across ages to standardize it properly. They probably do have a larger amount in one demo vs another, but you can simply weigh them differently to balance it out.
There’s probably plenty wrong with their methodology if we dig deeper though; these polls aren’t very scientific typically. With political division, it could be how they were asked, for instance.
I feel like it has way more to do with how knowledgeable you were at the time. Kids generally don’t have the most critical eye for any of those things and most people don’t go back to see what they missed.
I just said to a friend this morning, “every kid’s favorite movie is the last movie they saw”
Not just music! (Though that is probably the strongest example)
It’s telling how many people are nostalgic for a society that only existed before they were born. Recent History education sucks.
The one that surprises me is TV. It has objectively improved in quality so much, it’s basically on par with movies at this point. Writing, acting, costuming, all of it. I’d never claim that TV from the 90s was superior to now, even though I was a teen back then.
TV now is kind of garbage because every show will have like 2 8 episode “seasons” with a 3 year gap in the middle. I appreciate the variety but it’s clear to me the industry hasn’t really recovered from the streaming era destroying the cash flow into the TV industry. The 90’s and early 2000’s are absolutely the peak of network TV IMO when it comes to big syndicated network shows like Star Trek Buffy stargate etc. but there are a much wider variety of shows today so it’s kind of a mixed bag
I’m way too analytical to fall into that curve, and I’m sure most people on Lemmy are like that too. Like, we literally have data going back decades on most of these metrics, so why are people even going with their gut? Quite a few are literally numbers you can check!
But alas, your average nobody ignores data…
I’d be very interested to see the age distribution of the people who were polled. It just says 2000 adults, but if they were all around the same age then it may not all be matters of opinion, especially for things like “political division.”
Judging by the footnote, it’s YouGov which isn’t a very good poll typically. That said, it’s likely got enough people across ages to standardize it properly. They probably do have a larger amount in one demo vs another, but you can simply weigh them differently to balance it out.
There’s probably plenty wrong with their methodology if we dig deeper though; these polls aren’t very scientific typically. With political division, it could be how they were asked, for instance.
I feel like it has way more to do with how knowledgeable you were at the time. Kids generally don’t have the most critical eye for any of those things and most people don’t go back to see what they missed.
I just said to a friend this morning, “every kid’s favorite movie is the last movie they saw”