When two events (call them A and B) are Mutually Exclusive it is impossible for them to happen together: P(A and B) = 0. The probability of A and B together equals 0 (impossible).
Answer Wiki. Strauss & Howe, the social historians known for pioneering generational theory[1], would say that Gen X (the 13th generation) and Gen Y (the millennial generation) each have the traits of their corresponding generational archetypes. Generation X is generally used to refer to people born in the 60s and 70s. According to Strauss & Howe, it is a Nomad generation, an archetype they share with the Lost Generation of the 1890s and 1900s. Both generations are characterized by a disaffected attitude and general disdain for everything that came before.
1 This generation is also referred to as the Me Generation. 2  Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western PostâWorld War II baby boom. 3  Demographers, historians and commentators use birth dates ranging from the early 1960s to the early 1980s. The term has also been used in different times and places for a number of different subcultures or countercultures since the 1950s. 2  Millennials, also known as the Millennial Generation, or Generation Y, is the demographic cohort following Generation X.