{"id":57,"date":"2007-07-08T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/08\/blaming-mr-rogers\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T01:57:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T05:57:30","slug":"blaming-mr-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/08\/blaming-mr-rogers\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaming Mr. Rogers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heh&#8230; a recent study shows this generation is more narcissistic and selfish than previous generations. Probably true, no doubt. A professor at Louisiana State University blames childhood influences such as Mr. Rogers to telling us that we don&#8217;t need to work for what we get. Hmm&#8230; evil Mr. Rogers :p<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the best statement in the second article has to be this:  &#8220;By 2006, they said, two-thirds of the students had above-average scores, 30 percent more than in 1982.&#8221;  Wait, so isn&#8217;t average the <em>mean<\/em>, which means you are always going to have at most half above it? Heh.. of course, they&#8217;re probably talking about the cumulative average over decades of research, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/305247_students27.html\">http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/FOX_Did_Mr._Rogers_ruin_entire_0706.html<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/305247_students27.html <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh&#8230; a recent study shows this generation is more narcissistic and selfish than previous generations. Probably true, no doubt. A professor at Louisiana State University blames childhood influences such as Mr. Rogers to telling us that we don&#8217;t need to work for what we get. Hmm&#8230; evil Mr. Rogers :p Of course, the best statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}