In the beginning, there was the start of a simulation...... Started by an Alien RU-vidr, who started the simulation with the help from his sponsor, skillshare.
Had I been born 7 minutes earlier, I would have been born on August 31 and would not have missed the September 1 cutoff date for most us school systems. My sophomore year of high school I turned 16 before everyone else and had a license and a car a week into the school year, and suddenly everyone wanted to be my friend and confide in me how distressing it is to ride the bus
Essentially, “Your birth month matters if you were born in the first quarter, and last quarter of the year. If you’re born between April and September, you are irrelevant” 😂
So what you’re telling me is that in all those tests I did, I was biologically disadvantaged compared to my peers simply because my body was slightly less developed? Nice.
I would like to know more about those physical differences caused by changes of hormones and diet during pregnancy. So sad that it was only mentioned before the sponsorship cut-off, sounds like the most interesting thing in the whole video!
Another thing to consider is holding back kids for another year. I don't if this is in other places, but where I live children born in the summer can be held back from going to kindergarten for 1 year. This means that they will start school at the age of 6 instead of 5 giving them a advantage.
One of my university classmates (class of May 2014) was actually born in October 1990. As for myself, I was supposed to have graduated the previous year but for a botched change of major. The head of the class I graduated in is actually the youngest of that class of whom I know (we were both in August).
In preschool, the cutoff date was basically a week before my birthday. It was a gifted school that required very high scores on their tests, as stupid as that sounds. I passed, and they actually let me in early. They decided to hold me back to meet the cut off due to emotional maturity. It has allowed me to succeed in school significantly because I was a year older.
I have a late August birthday. My parents held me back in preschool specifically for this reason - so I could be one of the older people in my grade, rather than one of the youngest.
My parents did the opposite, thinking I'm smart enough to get a year ahead.. highschool went fine but I'm now struggling to finish my masters heh. I wonder had i been set in previous year, if i would've done better in school , and hence start my university studies better and hence waste less time than i have wasted in my current situation. I've wasted about 3 years, could be 4 by the time I finish my study. So take away the year i saved in highschool I'm currently 2/3 years behind my age group. Perhaps starting a year later i could've done better , but who knows man.. life is weirdly 100% affected by any decisions made
@Red Sinatra No, haha. I'm nothing special. I do alright tho, I have a graduate degree and I make my living as a writer. The only change I really _felt_ was that I was able to drive by the beginning of sophomore year, which naturally made my friend group happy. It inevitably affected other things of course, but they're harder to track. On balance it at least wasn't a _bad_ decision on my parents' part. 🤷♂️
@@MrBsehratmaannking Heyyyyy same-isg situation! I was bumped up during childhood then suffered in university, got delayed 2 yrs behind age group as a result. In retrospect I was too immature to be sent off to university at like, 16 years old. Didn't even know what I really wanted for a degree & yet I was already a sophomore by the time I wanted to be in aviation. Financially it was impossible to change lanes so I pushed through with IT. Only ever appreciated the path I took once I had enough work experience to be paid well. The key point though is that I'm never happy about what I do no matter how cushy it is haha... Never do the same to your future kids.
@@j134679 ahh hiii sorry for such late reply.. sorry about your situation! The good thing with me was that I always knew what i wanted to do from a very young age (around 10/11). Though i never gave myself any time nor opportunity to explore behind my childhood ideas, i can't see myself enjoying doing much else. So in that way i was lucky !
4:05 "Joe of the Jonases" When you've always been the hottest one of the group for its entire existence and no one is less talented than Kevin, yeah, you will look like a star. lol
I was born on the 26th of August and my mom was actually mindful of this when she put me in school - she had the option to wait a year before having me go to school because of how close my birthday was to the cutoff, and since she did, I was always way older and bigger than most of my classmates. I'm honestly really grateful that she did, because if I was young for my grade, I would have been a solid target for bullying. There might be something to be said about genetics also leading to me being larger than my classmates, which is true, but being older also helped a lot.
I used to think "This video is made possible by _______" meant that the video was POSSIBLY made by the sponsor. I thought this whenever I watched RealLifeLore especially. I was dumb 5 years ago
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I’m glad you brought up football here in the UK, as someone who was born in September I had an advantage... however I wasn’t the tallest kid so that contradicted the age !
@@Saltiren its important for centerbacks and goalkeepers to be fairly tall and then for other positions there are advantages and disadvantages of being taller / shorter (such as being stronger and an aerial threat / having a low centre of gravity and better acceleration) although generally footballers are on average taller than most people.
@@Saltiren yeh I guess height isn’t soo much of a thing these days, I’m in my 30s now and back then clubs were only looking at tall well build and developed players. Not your “nippy wee” players aka Messi of these days. Here in Scotland 30 years ago you were meant to be tall and built like a brick shit house.
@@Saltiren Especially for younger players (about 14-17) physical development makes a huge difference. Being more developed also means potentially being faster and stronger, which is definitely an advantage in football. This of course leads to smaller players not being prioritized at this age, which then further hinders the players' football specific development. So as a less developed player you need to be extraordinarily good or at least make it through several years of not being a priority. For the past maybe 5 years Denmark has had an "extra" Under-16s national team specifically focused on players born in the later parts of the year, because very few players from that part of the year was previously selected at that age.
please don't reuse the flickering effect you used when presenting the ohl stats. Really hurts the eyes for frankly a mediocre effect of old age tech. thx
Wow, this explains alot. I was always the youngest in my sports comps. And I struggled to find kids born in late months such as December like me. I always felt the pressure of their older kids but played past it. It sparked the drive to overcome myself against people better than me
when i was looking forward to how an april birth month affects my life but isn't even mentioned once in this vid that is uploaded on april hshhscfjnjsj
There is one other factor you missed, ramadan. Children who's mothers are starved during the early months of pregnancy have a much higher chance of birth defects. This leads to and increase in baby's with birth defects being born 8-9 months after ramadan in areas when the practice is observed.
I’m a March baby, but because the schools where I grew up had cut off dates in August or September, I was always among the younger half to 1/3 of the class. I made up for it by being really smart! But I definitely struggled socially due to being younger and having some undiagnosed learning disabilities
Kids born in August also tend to get held back a year, which is a huge advantage. I was also born in August and my parents held me a back a year so that I would be better at sports and more emotionally mature. I could either be one of the youngest kids in my grade or one of the oldest, and my parents chose to have me be older.
When I was a kid, school started around September and my birthday was late October, and while you could turn five about a month after school started, two months was pushing it. So I had to basically wait a whole another year. Which of course meant that when I did go to school, I was now one of the first to have a birthday, and thus, like this guy said, almost up to a year older then some of the other kids. As such, I was not only more confident and mature, but just bigger. Add in an early growth spurt, and I was larger then some of my friends fathers by the time I was twelve and starting the seventh grade. And that meant I was better at football, which had a domino effect to more prestige ect. When I was a kid, I hated that I "got held back" as I thought of it. But then later on I realized it was a great blessing. I have some relatives that even purposely held back their sons, as boys tend to be more physically and socially immature in middle school compared to girls, as to them an artificial leg up. Makes sense to me.
Only thing you missed is schools holding kids back a grade early on because of their lineage in sports. Happened to both my brother and I. We both were born a few days before the cut off. Joke was on them we both hated America Football 😂.
My parents did the same. I was born in November and school years in Australia starts in January so after the immigration, I didn't go to school for months in order to get accepted in the school year under.
that book pisses me off so much because 90% of the "data" he's using is complete bullshit which is stupid because there's endless _real_ data out there that actually supports his conclusions so WHYD YOU MAKE ALL THAT SHIT UP MALCOLM *WHY*
@@Kelly_C yeah I get it. Fortunately my English teacher made sure to mention that some of the stuff in the book has been disproven so it's not like I had to believe everything was true
My younger sister and I were born so close together that we straddled the deadline for starting school. Such that, I would have been one the oldest, and she would have been one of the youngest. But my mother, an elementary school teacher, knew how bad an idea it can be to have two kids in the same grade at the same time, and decided to hold back my sister for a year, putting her essentially one-up over most of the other kids in age, because everyone in her birth/year cohort had actually started school the year earlier. Also, she was somewhat aware of that intraannual age bonus thing and that giving my sister a year before starting would position her better off just like with me.
If you’re doing the math in your heads, she was younger than me but must have had an earlier birthday in the year for us to straddle the deadline like that, and yes, my younger sister is just a bit shy of a year younger than me. My dad got a vasectomy after me, and they had more or less planned to finish up having kids, and then he ignored the advice of the doctors that he was still going to need to use protection for a while just to be sure, and sure enough, along came my sister conceived only some 3 months after I was born.
our school district is engaged in a serious conversation about overhauling our math program k - 12. i'm now wondering how the relative age effect has been played out.
Having a friend give birth in August and much ado being made about temperature when the baby was around (with her doctor claiming the baby had to be kept at *exactly* 73F at all times, which is obviously ridiculous) I wonder if in the part of human history before AC there was any difference in survival rates for different birth months. e.g. June babies in hot climates and December babies in cold ones dying more often because of extreme temperature right out of the womb instead of having a few months to get used to it (e.g. an April baby in a cold climate that will likely have a relatively mild summer and fall ahead before winter gets brutal). Somehow I doubt there were many scientific studies done on it at the time unfortunately.
"We're not going to repeat things from Malcolm Gladwell books" and then proceeds to talk about how underdogs excel given overcoming greater challenges, which is also the subject of another Malcolm Gladwell book, David and Goliath.
Hey at about 55 seconds in when you're showing the graph: distribution of hockey players age by birth month the gray background is flashing white and I'm not sure if it's intentional but it is uncomfortable when you're trying to focus on small text. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but honestly I can't see why it would be
I'm not Sam, but don't worry, it's an effect on the video. Freaked me out for a moment too, because I had just plugged my charger in right before it happened!
I really liked having my birthday in July as a kid for 3 reasons: 1. It was halfway between Christmases (I always felt sorry for kids with December birthdays because the temptation to lump them together with Christmas is overwhelming) 2. My birthday is 2 days after the 4th of July, meaning it made sense for my family to celebrate it on the 4th, meaning I not only got birthday cake and a party and presents, but also a parade and fireworks 3. I was bullied in school, so I was very relieved that my birthday was not during the school year, and I never got to see what kids would or wouldn't do for it
My older brother is literally born on December 31, crazy to think how life would be different had he been a day younger. (Our school system had the start of the year at January and the end at December)
Whether you have more success or not, being born September-December in the US school system sucks. You're the last of your friends to drive a car or be technically allowed to sign up certain websites. You enter college still technically a kid.
@@jerryborjon It almost looks like they were trying to go with an old film flicker effect. Either way, it gave me a horrible headache and simply could not watch it any further. Either don't do that or include a flicker warning for those that are highly sensitive to that!
just to clarify.. it doesn't matter whether you "believe in the zodiac" or not.. it's still a thing.. whether it's accurate in anyway is a different discussion..
“Pompeii: a town going through a difficult period” might be the understatement of the year (depending on when you set the cut off month for this selection)
Just like Hockey, in school years that start in September students are assigned by birth year. So theres people born in 1st January and 31st December of the same year, and by that logic people born in January should get better grades
I’ll be honest and say it’s weird what September does. I’m born in September 14th and have a friend who is born only 3 weeks earlier in Augest and they are an entire year ahead
@@idk-iw9kb I was born at the end of August and my parents intentionally held me back a year so that I wouldn't be one of the youngest kids in my class.
It effects when u can start school. Rip to all those September 2nd babies out there. Held behind an entire year because of one day. Luckily the school didn't notice me until months later and it was too late
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
Just some interesting data, almost all of the top students in my high school graduating class (myself included, as a May baby) were born in the spring and summer. Of course there were outliers, but every person whose rough birthday I remember was between March and June. For me personally, I just had good parents, both did a lot in their own way to help me get the skills regardless of what the school did. Obviously there are no absolutes in this world when it comes to humans, so thats why this is more anecdotal than anything.
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
My birthday is August 22nd. So I turned 5 right before the school year in my district started, so I was allowed to start that year. I was always the youngest in my grade. And want to know what's worse? 90% of my birthday gifts were school supplies
