Do jobs run in families?
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Do jobs run in families?
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#2This data is pretty interesting. Of course, it's hard to separate out or even infer the causes as nature vs. nurture (which the article is careful about) but the part about twins was the most striking for me:
"Twins' tendency to choose the same occupation, at 24.7%, is even more striking."
A possible explanation was provided above:
"Whether identical or fraternal 2, twins are also more likely to be raised in a similar environment — parenting styles may differ as a parents add more children to their brood, but twins will likely be exposed to a similar parenting style."
Also, being raised in the same time period would also expose you to the same cultural/economic/societal factors - all of which can change with time, and also may affect your choice of career. (i.e. the proportion of math_CS parents could be different from the proportion of math_CS children just because of the different time periods in which each grew up)
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#3that is very cute: fb doing research!
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#4Interesting data. I think we'll get very interesting data from Facebook if they keep it up, considering they're one of companies who have the most data on people.
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#5that is very cute: fb doing research!
I'm not sure what you're saying here; Facebook does more research than some universities. Their propensity for experimenting on their users is well-documented, and while I disagree with their ethics, they do produce significant, relevant and valid results.
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#6A little uncomfortable that a company that spends $10m lobbying the government in its interests, is also now doing social policy research using their near-monopoly on a particular sort of people's data. (This one, for instance, ties into social mobility which is always an argument that has currency with politicians.) Quite what they're arguing for behind the scenes is unknown ... but then that's part of the problem.
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#7that is very cute: fb doing research!
I'm not sure what you're saying here; Facebook does more research than some universities. Their propensity for experimenting on their users is well-documented, and while I disagree with their ethics, they do produce significant, relevant and valid results.
If you're prepared to toss ethics overboard it's not that hard to come up with significant, relevant and valid results. The whole trick is to get those results while acting ethical.
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#8The interactive visualization is very neat. Interesting data, and an interesting way of presenting the data.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure what you're saying here; Facebook does more research than some universities. Their propensity for experimenting on their users is well-documented, and while I disagree with their ethics, they do produce significant, relevant and valid results.
If you're prepared to toss ethics overboard it's not that hard to come up with significant, relevant and valid results. The whole trick is to get those results while acting ethical.
I think there's another issue that being willing to be completely unethical requires such distorted thinking (for humans, anyway) that it introduces its own sort of spurious results. Just thinking about a lot of callous and inhumane psychobabble that was promulgated not too long ago, mostly dealing with people whom the researchers thought of as not-quite-as-human.