18+52+37+47+56=210 for China. Each child could pick up to 3 answers. The average number of jobs the Chinese children picked was 2.
For USA/UK the average was about 1. Very few children selected more than one answer.
That’s weird. What a weird poll. Were there only 5 possible choices? I would have told you I wanted to be a veterinarian at that age, if I answered at all. (I did not become a vet, I became a failure lmao)
I wanted to be an electrical engineer, then I saw all the math and settled for electrician, then I saw all the math and settled for Janitor
It says all the children were given an option to pick up to 3 answers. Given the small sample size, it’s likely there were questioned by the same person and that person didn’t convey that to children properly.
Or they are all very focused on only 1 path.
It says all the children were given an option to pick up to 3 answers.
Mmhmm, I also noticed that, which is why it’s the second sentence in my post.
Given the small sample size
It’s a survey of 3,000? It’s still possible that only one person was giving the survey to the Chinese students.
But yeah, it does look like the Chinese students got different instructions or had them explained differently or something. Just a strange poll.
I think it’s pretty obvious this is a subset of the answers.
So it seems like, given 3 picks, only 1% of kids are choosing YouTuber as an option. That doesn’t really seem ridiculous.
Edit: it’s 3000 kids total, not per country. So I guess 3% if these are the only 3 countries included.
This poll annoyed me so much I googled it. It’s just a really shitty poll. There is no reason to believe the 5 listed jobs is a subset of the answers. This is an infographic summarizing a single question from a survey that seems to be commissioned by LEGO.
Article from the “Harris Poll”
I couldn’t find like, an academic paper describing the poll. There’s no methodology for it I can find. It’s just some corporate fluff piece, frankly.
So I guess 3% if these are the only 3 countries included
Yep, only 3 countries. This is just a trash poll.
I just figured if 3000 people responded, they should have 9000 picks. Since we only see a few hundred it seemed like it’s a very small subset of the total answers.
Very shitty poll indeed.
Friend, the totals are percentages, not absolute counts
HOLY SHIT. Please no one pay attention to me
Born too late to explore the oceans.
Born too early to explore the stars.
Born just in time to remind you to hit that like button, share with your friends, and subscribe so you don’t miss a thing.
The West is lost.
“DUHH, IT’S BECAUSE SPEECH IN CHINA IS CENSORED AND YOU’LL LITERALLY GET SENT TO A XINJIANG CONCENTRATION CAMP IF YOU TRIED BEING A VLOGGER”
You can see a mix of escapism and “how do I fast track as much money as possible?”
Thwn I’d expect higher figures for musicians, swayed by the top .01% that suck up all the fame and royalties.
Dont worry, they will all be increasing shareholder value
They’d better, the fiduciary responsibility of the corporate entity has the one, and only one requirement.
The cancer, deaths, depression, poverty, oppression, etc. is just for fun!
They need to run this survey again now that the Chinese space station has an air fryer.
I think this may have to do with the fact that China regulates social media with regard to its effect on society, whereas it’s the wild west in English-speaking countries. I don’t agree with all of their criteria for regulating media, but I feel like there’s probably a good middle-ground to be reached. It’s well-documented how harmful social media has been to people of all ages.
This might be a hot take, but I think it started with tying internet identities to real identities.
Unless I misunderstand, in China it’s illegal to distribute VPNs, but simply using one and accessing the wider net is fine. That implementation isn’t great, but it could also be a lot worse. Effectively it means anyone who’s tech savvy enough can leave the walled garden whenever they like with practically no consequence. Though, it still requires some group of people assume the legal risk of setting up and hosting the VPN infrastructure.
I feel like there must be some means of achieving the same effect without criminalizing people just for providing a service. Like, defaulting to a garden of public and private webpages that meat the standard, but still with some means of leaving that garden provided you pass a minor techincal barrier to entry.
Also forcing every social media site and glorified-website-app to default to chronological sort every time you close the browser tab or leave the app. It’s a simple change, but it would do a lot.
Careful, that’s dangerously close to a Dessalines ban talk right there
I’d love to see this redone today, except i suspect kids in the us and uk all want to be like, _s_hitler
Lot of aspiring young rappers in China it seems
Pre-COVID. I wonder what it’s like now. Anecdotes from people who work in education seem to say it was pretty devastating for child development, but it’s hard to tell if it’s above and beyond the perennial “this new generation is totally fucked” sentiment.
See? UK is a 90% version of USA.
I wanted to be free. Maybe next life.
Country that teaches the west is evil want to become the west genocide army.
How convenient.
What?
