That Thing About Teens

     Yeaaahhh, I didn't recognize ANY of those people, most of the apps, or y'know, fit in in any way shape or form. http://www.businessinsider.com/what-teens-are-like-in-2016-2016-1

     I realize I'm definitely the exception here, and far from the rule, but I feel like that's something that really isn't accounted for. In a sample size of sixty teens, there's a pretty significant chance that they missed entire cliques of people. Based on the photo (the one under the "Who Did We talk To?" subtitle, though I can't say that it's accurate because I wasn't the one doing the interviews) it seems that they interviewed teens I would personally say look "approachable" or "popular." However, two of them are wearing wire sunglasses and that seems far more uncommon in this time period, so I may be completely wrong here.
     "Every teen we spoke to owned a smartphone" automatically says to me that they missed a representative of ten percent of teenagers. Even in the class this is for, two students (that I can think of) don't currently have smart phones and one (yours truly) only bought one a few weeks ago. Basically, I think this study was done pretty badly, but I probably can't argue any of its findings as accurate...or can I?
     Six hours a day on their phones, sure that seems fair. Surely they accounted for the fact that most teens can send messages in just a few seconds, then it takes five minutes until the other person sees it and replies. That admittedly won't matter for all the time, but assuming its what a third of teens do, it would still bring down the average a pretty heavy amount.
     The screen time is also probably at least somewhat off due to the sample size. To emphasize this, the number of teens recorded by the last census was 41844000. 60 teenagers, therefore, accounts for .0001% of this group.
     Sayng social apps are popular is like someone saying newspapers were popular decades ago: obvious. Humans live in groups, of course they want to socialize. The same applies to music apps and the radio. Most of the stars will fade away like their predecessors.
     30% of teens mentioning buzzfeed apparently means they're obsessed with it. That makes less sense than anything else in the article; they wern't "obsessed" with social media even though the numbers were higher. Slang changs constantly, just like celebrities.
     Teens liking Sanders shouldn't surprise anyone, because historically younger people are more liberal and more open to radical change. Also, he pushes for free college for students, which of course gains him some support from teenagers.
     Their conclusion seems like something that could've been written without the study that's backing it. The quote from Trudon as the final sentence is pretty random and unsupported by anything from the study unless they want to say voting for Sanders is smart. I honestly don't see what this study accomplished. Teens use their phones? OH MY GOD WHAT A SHOCKING DISCOVERY! The ridiculously small sample size shows less effort than I've seen in studies about gerbils too.