Facebook studied 5.6 million people to see if family influences careers

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by Sindy Cator on March 21, 2016 at 10:39 am

Facebook’s research arm published an interesting study last week that looked at 5.6 million anonymous Facebook accounts to see if it could find a correlation between family and your future career. The study first looked at father-son occupations and mother-daughter occupations, which found that varied depending on what occupation was being discussed. For example, the company found that a father in the legal profession is 4.6 times more likely to have a son that practices medicine. Another part of the study looked at connections through a network visualization, and found that while 20 percent of mothers who worked in office or administrative services had daughters that chose…