With over1.5 billionactive story , Facebook get their hand on a ludicrous amount of data about us all . In between all the viral television and drunken photos we share , Facebook can gain some somewhat interesting insights from this gold mine of selective information .
In a recentblog postal service , some of the data scientist at Facebook Research have crunched the data they have on whether children follow in their parent ’s step when it comes to their career alternative .
Ismail Onur Filiz and Lada Adamic meet infomation from a 5.6 million - strong sample of parents and their children . Along with this , they created interactional visualizations that map out the relative of beginner - son occupation and that of mother - daughter occupations . There was also grounds for substantial ill-tempered - gender occupation “ hereditary pattern ” ( i.e. mother - son and father - daughter occupation ) .
For example , you are five times more likely to link the military if your father was , or is , in the military . As a male , if your founder was in the land , fishing , or forestry sector , you are 7.6 times more potential to go into that profession . girl with female parent in nursing are over 3.75 clock time more probable to become nursemaid .
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This might sound like your parents really do put your path in life history , however these numbers can be slightly shoddy . For example , take the statistic on father - son pairs working in farming , fishing , or forestry : It sounds like a large likelihood here , but in realness only 3 per centum of sons will really abide by their Father into this profession . As for the mother - girl pairs in nursing , only 8.5 percent of daughters will really postdate suit .
There are a few other thing deserving considering when look at the data . First of all , not everybody has Facebook . Even more so , not everyone has their parent , progeny , and job list . Additionally , only English - speaking profiles were used in the dataset . Therefore , the data is n’t necessarily altogether representative . notwithstanding , it does provide some interesting reading .
Head over to theResearch at Facebook blogfor more interactive visualisation and insight into the data .
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