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Re: FIRST Impacting Job Choices
Keep in mind as you read this thread the psychology involved in deciding whether to lurk or post. By far the tendency favors lurking. As discovered in many polls, most of the people who respond feel strongly about the issue being discussed. The majority of FIRSTers seem to be people who are interested in engineering and science. It is the minority who sort themselves into a separate category who do feel strong about the issue- thus they will be more likely to speak out, as they feel the need to point out that not everyone is with the majority.
There is also the learned forum etiquette of not posting the same thing multiple times; though it may not be exactly the same, many of the stories are similar(not saying they are the same, or belittling anyones experience) and go like this: I thought robotics was geeky, but a friend invited me, I had a blast, and I'm going to be an engineer/scientist now because that is the focus of FIRST. (and no this was not my experience; I was already interested but there was nothing in my town)
If you read some similar story to that about 6 times, you are a lot less likely to post than if yours is very unique. Here is where the (FIRST) minority comes in once again, as they have very unique stories about how they came to choose what they wanted to be, sometimes based on FIRST, sometimes not. So by that same logic the non-science non engineering members will be even more likely to post.
My point is that this probably will probably be skewed towards non-engineering and non/science jobs.
Disclaimer:
It is my opinion that this is on topic because it is about the subject of the thread and how it represents the population of chiefdelphi FIRSTers, if not all FIRSTers. One could call this a metadiscussion, because I am discussing the discussion itself. Feel free to pick it apart. Or just ignore it if you think I'm thread jacking(which I repeat that I am pretty sure I'm not doing).
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Last edited by Jeff_Rice : 14-08-2004 at 22:11.
Reason: clarity
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