>>44125716>Discussion:Out of 108 replies, 56.5% of respondents reported Gen 5 was the last ‘good’ Pokemon generation. Combined with Gen 4, the consensus for the DS-era generation being the last ‘good’ generation was agreed upon by 71.3% of respondents.
Younger respondents were more likely to report that there were ‘no bad generations’ (implied by stating Gen 8 was the “last good generation”) or reflected more positively on Gen 7 than older users. As a result, the regression line of best fit expressed a negative slope correlating younger users with a higher favor of more-recent Pokemon generations. This makes sense, given that mainline Pokemon games are generally designed for children, thus more likely to receive praise by the target demographic during the time period upon the games‘ release. Generations 6 and 7 began in 2013 and 2016, so the children who were the target audience of those games are late teenagers or in their early twenties now at the time of this writing in 2020. Likewise, respondents who were children during Generations 2 and 3 (2000 and 2003) are in their late twenties and early thirties now, which reinforced the age trend on the regression line.
It’s important to note that the “last good Pokemon generation” is not the same metric as “best Pokemon generation,” and to measure the latter, the original question would have needed to be worded differently. Voting was not blind, so subsequent voters may have been subjected to unconscious bias by peers.
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