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I wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon who *also* ran a bookstore-pet store combo. You know, in my abundant free time. Then I realized that I'd have to crack open peoples' skulls, so I settled on playing for the WNBA. I didn't understand why people looked at my parents and laughed. I topped out at 5'4.
My brother wanted to be an MLB pitcher who moonlit as a jazz trumpet player, but if that didn't work, he wanted to be a lawyer who worked with lonely old people in Florida so they would will their life savings to him.
I'm happy to say that while our childhood ambitions didn't come to fruition, we both are well adjusted, successful people with careers in boring, grown-up fields that we knew nothing about (or, in my case, didn't exist) when we were kids.
All that wishing and hoping and dreaming is normal for kids. The important thing is that the adults in the kids' lives help them develop the skills to follow their dreams so that dreams become reality, even if those dreams shift when suddenly made concrete. And the skills to be a YouTuber can be applied to many "normal" careers - public speaking, writing, digital marketing (including SEO, social media, website design, accessibility), research, and videography (including planning, scripting, lighting, filming, editing). And that's all before getting into the topics they cover themselves! Some require more skill or knowledge than others, but working on a skill (like music, makeup artistry, comedy) and sharpening your follow through skills are a skill in of itself.
Not doctors, scientists or engineers but YouTubers. If this is true the Chinese must be licking their chops assuming America is on the decline sooner than they anticipated.
It's not the vast majority. 1000 kids were asked, and given choices to choose from.
I mean...heck, if 10 million kids were asked, maybe you'd have a point.
And the Pfizer vaccine efficacy rate of 95% was based on 170 people! I know this is off topic. I'm agree with you that stats from bigger samples are more meaningful.
It's not the vast majority. 1000 kids were asked, and given choices to choose from.
I mean...heck, if 10 million kids were asked, maybe you'd have a point.
That's not how statistics work.
A sample of a thousand, as long as the SELECTION of respondents is random from the available pool and the results will be reasonably accurate to within 5-10% or so.
For example, if I have a bag with 1million beans in it and some are large, some small, colors green, blue or red....with 1000 picks you can reasonably estimate how many of each type there are.
It's about diminished gain from additional observation.
This is proven science, it's repeatable and verifiable like gravity and bread getting moldy after a while.
If you want to argue selection bias and poorly worded questions then you have a possible argument.
And the Pfizer vaccine efficacy rate of 95% was based on 170 people! I know this is off topic. I'm agree with you that stats from bigger samples are more meaningful.
It was based on 40,000 people and then a comparison between the vaccinated and control group members to see how many from each got COVID.
Not doctors, scientists or engineers but YouTubers. If this is true the Chinese must be licking their chops assuming America is on the decline sooner than they anticipated.
Where you see a weakness I see an opportunity. There will be a huge demand for mental health professionals as well as skilled trade workers in the future. There is my free advice. That liberal arts degree will be absolutely useless.
And the Pfizer vaccine efficacy rate of 95% was based on 170 people! I know this is off topic. I'm agree with you that stats from bigger samples are more meaningful.
And, well, let's mention that the article is from a marketing magazine, AND the kids had to choose from a given list. It's not like the kids got to put down anything they wanted.
It's like saying "Do you want to be a zoo keeper or a cowboy rancher when you grow up?"
When my youngest graduated from Kindergarten, all the kids got to walk up to the microphone and tell the audience what they wanted to be when they grew up. Lots of them wanted to be teachers, firemen, babysitters, mommas and daddys, but one little boy...
He walks up to the microphone, stands up on his tiptoes to reach the mike, and says in his southern accent "When I grow up, I want to be a maker of new Godzilla movies!"
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