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[–] Girru00@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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% 🤷‍♂️

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Girru00@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] eatthecake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It only surveyed people who don't have children. Says on the left 'Do not have children, n = 1300'. This result says nothing about the general intention to have children as those with children in each age group are excluded. Naturally, as people age, the number who still think they're going to have children goes down.