{"id":3792,"date":"2013-01-05T04:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T11:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2013-01-07T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T11:21:10","slug":"the-american-freshman-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/05\/the-american-freshman-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Freshman Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2257715\/Study-shows-college-students-think-theyre-special--read-write-barely-study.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Daily Mail<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>How college students think they are more special than EVER: Study reveals rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">DAILY MAIL REPORTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2013\/01\/05\/article-2257715-16C4980B000005DC-863_640x803.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Books aside, if you asked a college freshman today who the Greatest Generation is, they might respond by pointing in a mirror.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Young people&#8217;s unprecedented level of self-infatuation was revealed in a new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has been asking students to rate themselves compared to their peers since 1966.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Roughly 9 million young people have taken the survey over the last 47 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pyschologist Jean Twenge and her colleagues compiled the data and found that over the last four decades there&#8217;s been a dramatic rise in the number of students who describe themselves as being &#8216;above average&#8217; in the areas of academic ability, drive to achieve, mathematical ability, and self-confidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But in appraising the traits that are considered less invidualistic &#8211; co-operativeness, understanding others, and spirituality &#8211; the numbers either stayed at slightly decreased over the same period.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Researchers also found a disconnect between the student&#8217;s opinions of themselves and actual ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2257715\/Study-shows-college-students-think-theyre-special--read-write-barely-study.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Daily Mail<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Mail How college students think they are more special than EVER: Study reveals rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses By\u00a0DAILY MAIL REPORTER Books aside, if you asked a college freshman today who the Greatest Generation is, they might respond by pointing in a mirror. Young people&#8217;s unprecedented level of self-infatuation was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}