Only a fifth of Canadians younger than 50 plan on having kids: POLL - eviltoast
  • Girru00@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Thanks for this, so I redid the math using the two youngest categories (up to 34 years old) and the % goes from 21% to 26% 🤷‍♂️

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      5 hours ago

      The light blue section doesn’t count towards either yes or no, right? Because it’s the “I don’t know” answer.

      I was sitting here wondering how they came to 21% at all without only looking at the oldest category, and even then it’s only a fourth that would not get children.

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        5 hours ago

        For sure, good call out, I think they just mean only 21% of people feel sure about wanting kids, and if we remove the age bias it goes to 26%. Honestly it would be more interesting to compare the categories to answers from 10, 20 or 30 years ago to have a better benchmark for how we could interperet this.

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          5 hours ago

          Yeah, I got distracted by the headline and didn’t notice the bottom text that says it exactly that way.

          I suppose I’m not alone, because I doubt it would’ve been interesting enough to make my feed without the confusion.