• Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.ml
    8 months

    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)

    • dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca
      7 months

      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.

      • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.ml
        7 months

        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.

        • dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca
          7 months

          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.