Captain Janeway has always taken the USS Voyager where no woman or man has ever gone before. (Class of 2017, #22)

Bill Maher has always been politically incorrect. (Class of 2017, #59)

How hard could it be to figure out what T.V. shows were the most popular for a birth cohort? Nielsen collects this sort of data. Naturally, the Beloit Mindset List instead just names a couple shows that premiered around the year the cohort was born.

Star Trek: Voyager (starring Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway) was cancelled in 2001, when the Class of 2017 was six years old. Politically Incorrect (hosted by Bill Maher) was cancelled in 2002, when the Class of 2017 was seven. (It premiered in 1993, when the Class of 2015 was born, but maybe Messrs. McBride and Nief were running out of Class of 2017 material and had to dig into their old notes.)

Shows cancelled before your parents let you watch them aren’t part of your “mindset.”