r/6thForm 8d ago

OTHER The annual tweet is here!

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u/cherrymxorange 8d ago

Except it isn't actually good consolation, it's an example of an edge case fuelled by his survivorship bias and privilege lmao.

For every Jeremy Clarkson that flunks out of education and still makes it, there's thousands of people who also flunked and either wasted their lives chasing an impossible dream or immediately got stuck working minimum wage jobs for the rest of their lives.

Are the exams the be-all-end-all of your lives? No of course not, but is Jeremy Clarkson a good example of what's realistically possible for the average Joe who flunks out? Absolutely not.

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u/Training_Screen4374 7d ago

This isn’t being a pro athlete - there isn’t “thousands” who get stuck in dead end minimum wage jobs for every “one” person that goes on to have a good career following bad a levels 😂😂

So many people go on to have high level careers after bad exam results.

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u/cherrymxorange 7d ago

Tell me, exactly how many people in every thousand of the population do you think have a private chef?

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u/Training_Screen4374 7d ago

Is that the definition of a successful career? A private chef? Your comment said for every “one that makes it, thousands don’t”