--- title: Funny Fake Findings From Pew Research's Study on Millennials description: "Facts" that you won't actually find in the Pew study (because we made them up) canonical: https://time.com/15838/8-shocking-findings-from-pews-new-study-on-millennials/ author: Jessica Roy article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-07T16:30:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:35.737Z og:title: 8 Shocking Findings From Pew's New Study on Millennials og:description: "Facts" that you won't actually find in the Pew study (because we made them up) og:url: https://time.com/15838/8-shocking-findings-from-pews-new-study-on-millennials/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6045bc6c9e554e97/69868303361760ec2090aa6c/selfie1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: selfie1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 8 Shocking Findings From Pew's New Study on Millennials twitter:description: "Facts" that you won't actually find in the Pew study (because we made them up) twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6045bc6c9e554e97/69868303361760ec2090aa6c/selfie1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 8 Shocking Findings From Pew's New Study on Millennials by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Mar 7, 2014 4:30 PM UTC  Yellow Dog Productions/Getty Images by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Mar 7, 2014 4:30 PM UTC The Pew Research Center for Social and Demographic Trends [released](http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/) a shocking new study today with fresh data on millennials–people who currently range from ages 18 to 33–and what they’re like now that they’ve reached adulthood. Many of the findings–such as the fact that many millennials are politically independent and religiously unaffiliated–will come as no surprise to most. But some, like the ones we’ve aggregated below, will blow you away. According to Pew (not actually according to Pew): * 72% of millennials literally can’t right now * 99% of millennials want to know how they can make this about them * 1/3rd of millennials are legit embarrassed you just tweeted that, like…no * 33% of millennials are p tired rn tbh * 61% of millennials wonder what they should turn down for * 28% of millennials think you’re _actually_ _the worst_ * 1/8th of all millennials have the middle name “Brand” * 27% of millennials found this poor sick dog on the side of the road and could not _believe_ what happened next Kids these days, smh. Funny Fake Findings From Pew Research's Study on Millennials ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/15838/8-shocking-findings-from-pews-new-study-on-millennials/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/15838/8-shocking-findings-from-pews-new-study-on-millennials/"},"headline":"8 Shocking Findings From Pew's New Study on Millennials","datePublished":"2014-03-07T16:30:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:35.737Z","description":"\"Facts\" that you won't actually find in the Pew study (because we made them up)","url":"https://time.com/15838/8-shocking-findings-from-pews-new-study-on-millennials/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Humor"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6045bc6c9e554e97/69868303361760ec2090aa6c/selfie1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Roy","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6045bc6c9e554e97/69868303361760ec2090aa6c/selfie1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"selfie1","caption":"","creditText":"Yellow Dog Productions/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/15838/8-shocking-findings-from-pews-new-study-on-millennials/","name":"8 Shocking Findings From Pew's New Study on Millennials"}}]}] ```