# How big a generation have you created personally?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 17, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-big-a-generation-have-you-created-personally/993299 "2023-11-17T18:31:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-big-a-generation-have-you-created-personally/993299/76 "2023-11-20T19:35:51Z")

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This other thread by the same OP is probably the origin of the data gathering here:

> [@How stable is a "generation"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stable-is-a-generation/993282):
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> Have we lit upon a definition of “a generation” that is stable over time? It seems to me that the average age that a parent (of either sex) has his or her children constitutes a generation, no? Is this an acceptable measure of what makes for the length of a generation? If so, we should be able to track things like the length of a generation in the sixteenth century and the twenty-first pretty accurately. Or the length of a generation in the U.S. and in Tahiti. Or is a generation’s definition…

In a nutshell, how long is a “generation” of humans? How has that number changed over the centuries?

It’s not clear to me how this anecdata is going to shed light on that question, but it’ll be interesting to watch.

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