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Borrowing the “greater than” symbol from math, one could write a formula to describe the way many Americans view the trajectory of their lives: the future>the present>the past. But different cohorts follow this pattern to different degrees, and a Pew Research Center poll has the details.
Rather than ask respondents explicitly to make comparisons, the survey employed what’s known in the trade as a “self-anchoring scale.” That is, it first asked people to say where they now stand on “the ladder of life,” using a scale from zero (worst) to 10 (best).
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