While I agree with every single point here, where is this research coming from when basically every research University is liberal and would never research things like this (I would think).
That's a potent mix for disaster though, seriously.
I think a lot of the research is being done by businesses. They know that millennials have to be the majority of their workforce within the coming years and they are trying to understand how to get work out of them.
Sure there are good ones that are hard working. But a disturbingly large portion are terrible employees with no ambition, no interpersonal skills, poor writing skills beyond textspeak, poor reading comprehension skills and fragile egos.
Millennials do actually read a lot but they have trouble picking up nuance. There's an old writing rule - "Show, don't tell". That means a good writer doesn't write a Paragraph that says Bob is a good guy who loves his kids and is dependable. Instead they write many scenes that illustrate those points to the reader.
You can notice a shift in the writing now in TV and movies. There have always been moral or political messages in music, TV, movies, etc. But they were messages woven into the story. Now you have characters just speaking the message to the camera.
It's all part of the same issue, that the young people who grow up communicating by short, direct, messages are paying a price for that efficiency. They are losing the human aspects.
You can also see this in how people now jumps on anybody who misspeaks. Younger people are used to being able to edit all their communications before sending or even after if it didn't come out right. Older people know that sometimes people say dumb **** because they have spent a lifetime communicating face to face and can think of tons of times they personally said something that came out wrong and it didn't make them a monster.
Here's an article from Forbes on problems with face to face communication
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajagra...to-face-communication-heres-why/#586b1d8c26e8
