The New York Times asked its readers to suggest names for the generation after millennials, people born between roughly 1995 and 2015. Imagine that the most frequently submitted suggestions were “Generation Z” (N = 231), “Homeland Generation” (N = 20), “Post-Millennials” (N = 101), and “iGeneration” (N = 76).

a. Imagine that the Times decides to use the modal category among the top four suggestions as its official name for the generation after millennials.

Which name should it use?

b. Many readers wrote in to say they felt the question was pointless. For example, one twenty-two-year-old reader wrote, “Don’t call us anything.

The whole notion of cohesive generations is nonsense.” What is this reader saying about the usefulness of measures of central tendency when there is a high level of variation in a set of responses?