In the beginning, there was the start of a simulation...... Started by an Alien UA-camr, 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” 😂
February is the smallest month. Less people are born on February. I am born on February. Therefore, I am exceptional, thank you for listening to my TED Talk
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).
Born on THE cut-off date for my state's school system. If I was born a day later I would have been the oldest in my grade. Instead, I was the youngest in the entire grade all throughout school.
Surprised to hear about these super hard and rigid cutoff dates. In my country technically it was also August 31st but kids with birthdays in September and October were allowed to start school the same year as the ones born before the cutoff date. Oftentimes it was up to the parents and based on the child's development whether they can start school or wait one more year.
Same here dude: August 29th… sucked… but the underdog effect certainly kicked in for me lol. I was never the baseball star, but I’ll have one of the best careers lol.
As a November 9th birthday, I thought at 5:31 you were going to say “you have to live the rest of your life knowing that you exist because of a Valentine’s date where your parents got lucky”. Believe me, it’s a curse that lives with me.
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
Swear ee ret paladin R I think you can get it done anything for the compliment to make a glottal later sound good to me I think that was the first time I tried to call you back in a few minutes to make a glottal later sound like a good time to create a new discord pc update on the same thing in the morning and I will be there in the morning and I will be there in the morning and I will be there in the morning and I will be there
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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
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.
I know it's a throwaway line, but people with Taurus Rising are actually characterised by being stable, resistant to change, subborn, enjoying "the good life" with good food and quality clothing, with a practical approach to life. This is because Taurus is an Earth sign (practicality) ruled by Venus (goddess of love and passion) and associated with the 2nd House (the house of property and wealth). And the Ascendant or Rising Sign is considered how we appear outwards, to the world and other people, as the Rising Sign was the Zodiac Sign rising on the eastern horizon when you were born (this changes about every 2 hours).
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.
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!
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
"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.
This is also related the rate of adhd in kids. Kids who were born closer to the cut-off for admissions tend to be more likely to present with adhd symptoms. An explanation to that is simply that their brains are not as developed as the other kids in their cohort so it seems like they're hyperactive or can't concentrate when for the most part they're okay and just need time to develop. That's not to say that adhd isn't real, it just explains why kids born closer to the cut-off are more likely to present with those symptoms.
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.
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)
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
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..
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
“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)
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.
@@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 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.
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.
I have also read a study that boys born later in the year tend to struggle in school more often and be more likely to get diagnosed with ADHD. It doesn't seem to apply to girls, possibly since I have heard that girls mature faster than boys.
@@soapthesoap Nope, this is talking about like preschool and primary age boys getting diagnosed and turning out not to have ADHD when they are adults. And it was more of a problem for those born in November and December, not so much those in the summer.
Girls don't "mature faster than boys," girls are simply pressured to behave better and are given more restrictions, while boys are let off with "boys will be boys."
4:46 counterpoint: Drew Brees, the actual greatest American Football player of all time, was born in January, right in the middle of the academic year.
I wonder how things could be different in the Southern Hemisphere, where seasons are the opposite, and not only sports, but school is set on a cutoff from January to December.
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.
In volleyball we see the same effects around growth spurts. The best youth athletes are the ones who grow early and gain a significant advantage over their smaller peers. But the ones that reach top level are the ones who stayed short for a while, learned proper jumping and hitting technique, and then still get their growth spurt later.
Taurus rising, not sun. His sun can be any sign, but he was born at a certain time which makes him a Taurus RISING. If you base it solely on his birthday, you mean his sun sign. Also, we're not in Taurus szn yet
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The way you affected all april born people by not mentioning it at all in this video is substantial.
Yeah im unsubscribing☹
Oh wait. I dont have the heart to do that. BUT HOW CAN HE IGNORE THAT WE ALWAYS HAD OUR BIRTHDAYS IN THE MIDDLE OF EXAMS
;(
Yes, I’ve been waiting to hear about April birthdays... I guess I’ll keep waiting?
Got that April oof
Yeah, thanks Sam! -_-
The world didn't start with the big bang, it started with "this video was made possible by..."
It’s all skillshare
In the beginning, there was the start of a simulation...... Started by an Alien UA-camr, who started the simulation with the help from his sponsor, skillshare.
False - the universe started with “Hello Mortals.”
This universe was made possible by science
@@Skel1001 always has been
(Astronaut shooting a shocked astronaut in space)
A December birthday may give you advantages is the U.S., but everyone will still forget it because of Christmas.
Tell me about it, I was born on the 23rd of December...
I was born two days after Christmas
Me, born Dec 24: Yep.
December 24th gang
28th over here.
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
How does it feel to know that everyone only cared about you because of the car?
@@Kriae oof man, you didn't have to do em like that
Yeah, it's nice being at the beginning of the shift, until you skip a grade and get placed at the back.
America is so weird.
@@Kriae Just fine. Made some good friends that year and being the only dude with a car helped me get laid
Let me guess your sign!
Ok
You seem like a scorpio
No
Oh you definitely a taurus
No
Maybe Libra?
I'm actually an aquar-
OMG YES TYPICAL AQUARIUS
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I dont get it
Hi it’s me the chain breaker
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” 😂
Well, crap. I was born in late July.
i feel like the months between april and september are the prettiest. no idea why just wanted to put that out there
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@@shiteeshoodeeos800 wait same what date
@@shiteeshoodeeos800 Well, crap. I was born in mid-May.
February is the smallest month.
Less people are born on February.
I am born on February.
Therefore, I am exceptional, thank you for listening to my TED Talk
February is also generally a pretty month. Like imagine being born in November or something. That shit ugly.
You have entered: K E W L G A N G
@@kumakun6582 what about September 😭
autumn is pretty and you can't change my mind
And if you're born on the leap day you get to add a psychic power to your skill tree
@@kumakun6582 ouch.
I'm a december baby and Canadian and this hockey situation is facts
I’m a January baby
True and fix grammar
@@dropd1695 Hockey player get hit in head more time than grammar important
So am I and I sucked at hockey
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.
Well if you put it that way...
oof
The harsh reality
When you were in the middle of November it’s quite likely that you‘ve been made on the valentines day
I never realised this until someone mentioned they hated it. What about late or early nov?
Especially sus if your birthday is the 14th (totally not speaking from experience or anything...)
Late September means you were conceived on Christmas.
Or February-March if you are brazilian (Valentine's day counterpart in Brazil is June 12th)
october too
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.
Yep, I came here to say the same thing. That would give those with August birthdays a big advantage. It’s a confounding variable HAI did not address.
That is what happened to me
Ya, my friend who is a class below me is actually a few days older than me
I was born in september and got held back in kindergarten. I'm still upset about it almost 20 years later. Lol
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).
Waiting for Asian parents to plan the birth month of their kids so that their kids excel at school.
Dr though their stupidity amazes me instead of doing that just be better role model instead of expecting your child to the next trillion year..
lmaooo
@@sanjivinsmoke2719 first trillionaire*
@@lanticocean yeah.. bruh
My parents probably did that (I'm a September kid who happens to be doing Honors classes and passing them in middle school)
Born on THE cut-off date for my state's school system. If I was born a day later I would have been the oldest in my grade. Instead, I was the youngest in the entire grade all throughout school.
so your class was born on the same month and day what
Surprised to hear about these super hard and rigid cutoff dates. In my country technically it was also August 31st but kids with birthdays in September and October were allowed to start school the same year as the ones born before the cutoff date. Oftentimes it was up to the parents and based on the child's development whether they can start school or wait one more year.
Same here dude: August 29th… sucked… but the underdog effect certainly kicked in for me lol. I was never the baseball star, but I’ll have one of the best careers lol.
i made the cutoff by 37 hours lol (dec 30, cutoff date in my city is dec 31)
As a November 9th birthday, I thought at 5:31 you were going to say “you have to live the rest of your life knowing that you exist because of a Valentine’s date where your parents got lucky”. Believe me, it’s a curse that lives with me.
Me, my dad and his father were born in september, rigth in time for be conceive in christmas
@@urielantoniobarcelosavenda780 I was born at the end of August. I was 100% a Thanksgiving baby.
wow,a birthday twin
november 19th for me.... yup.
4:40 Didn't expect to see random blazers footage on HAI. Let alone footage from 10 years ago when Portland still had aldridge. Wild. Les go Rip City.
True
You live in Oregon?
Wes Matthews era>>>>
@@evanhall06 Portland born and raised
We the Norm
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. 🤷♂️
I was born in late August but my parents sent me to pre K right away instead of waiting a year so I’m one of or the youngest person in my grade
@@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
also nominative determinism
Its so dumb as well because it is obviously Nick instead of Joe being the best.
Sam is such a Gemini, despite being a Taurus.
How do you know he’s a Taurus?
@@grahamturner2640 watch the video
@@infernape649 he said Taurus rising, not sun.
@@crimsoninsight97 So Taurus for most regular people 😎
@@infernape649 most people use their sun sign. People that know their rising sign usually get it from a birth chart calculator.
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.
How tall did you end up being?
@@kingdoge69 194 cm
First your name, now your birth month? What's next, the colour of your first onesie?
YOU FOOL I DONT WEAR ONESIES!
@@turtleninja4955 Not anymore. You probably did when you were an infant.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio i never did
Wow! I didn't know you wore your first onesie for the rest of your life. Huge if true
The street address of the hospital you were born in?
Another amazing episode, nothing but what we expect at this point.
“In England, the age cut off for soccer...”
No, don’t do that
The Buengo Sadsick joke was one of your best one ever, holy shit
I had to rewind that part six times just to keep laughing at it
Yeah, that was a great joke by Where'd-Under Con-Goose-Calves.
@Absentminded Infinitesimal Chicken Good one!
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
Swear ee ret paladin R I think you can get it done anything for the compliment to make a glottal later sound good to me I think that was the first time I tried to call you back in a few minutes to make a glottal later sound like a good time to create a new discord pc update on the same thing in the morning and I will be there in the morning and I will be there in the morning and I will be there in the morning and I will be there
@@Xnoob545 ok
Ah XD really
Don’t worry, in 5 more years you’ll realize that you were actually still dumb today
Holy shit, yeah, you were
Us August babies don't struggle! I've chosen to be sitting here at 1 pm on a work day watching UA-cam... on purpose. Yeah.
August is the best
@@jaiadlakha212 I bet you're only saying that cause you were born in August.
@@speedy01247 August birthday gang
@@speedy01247 nice deduction Sherlock ,need an award ?
@@augustluhnow497 yesss
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 !
Sup I'm from the US and only know of your sport through Football Manager. Isn't height only beneficial for centerbacks or target men strikers?
@@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 kids in the same year group have very high height disparity which affects ball heading and OF COURSE seeing past your defender.
@@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.
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.
Pregnant mothers do not fast on Ramadan, and neither do menstruating women or anyone who is too sick or young
As someone who's born in April, I feel personally attacked for not even being mentioned once in this video.
I guess we don't exist at all ;)
Precisely!
I was born in June. I guess so
April fools!
Me too T^T
I've noticed most people's favorite season happens to be the season they were born in.
Not me... I'm born in summer and hate it xD winter is more my thing
@@skjoldar9622 Same here 😅
Facts,
I was born in winter, and autumn is the only season I like lol
Nope. Summer baby, love the fall
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
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
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
Yeah I thought there was something wrong with my phone when I saw it. I didn’t see the point in that flickering at all
I think it’s some type of Morse code. I’m too lazy to translate it.
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.
“Kids born in August tend not to do so well [in school].”
Me, born in August who was a 4.0 honor student: 👁👄👁
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.
@@97I30T same I’m 16 and a Sophomore born August 2nd
what country do u live in?
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
Buengo Sadsick.
My brother is a Scorpio, and I’m a Sagittarius, but our birthdays are both in the same month
Every month is split near the 20th for star signs
Thats literally every month
Oh don’t worry I’m CANCER.
Scorpio is October 23- November 21
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.
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 😂.
Wait what?
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.
I am exactly the type of person who loves starting sentences with "hey, did you know", and I have read every single Malcolm Gladwell book. Scary...
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
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.
I know it's a throwaway line, but people with Taurus Rising are actually characterised by being stable, resistant to change, subborn, enjoying "the good life" with good food and quality clothing, with a practical approach to life. This is because Taurus is an Earth sign (practicality) ruled by Venus (goddess of love and passion) and associated with the 2nd House (the house of property and wealth). And the Ascendant or Rising Sign is considered how we appear outwards, to the world and other people, as the Rising Sign was the Zodiac Sign rising on the eastern horizon when you were born (this changes about every 2 hours).
3:05 being born in august
bruh accurate
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.
1:06
Phone: * the screen starts flashing *
Me: * suddenly worried *
SAM, TELL ME MY PHONE'S SCREEN IS NOT FAILING.
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!
The joke at 3:35 was so bad it hit the overrun and was the funniest thing I've heard all day.
I just read Outliers for school. It's like Sam knows. He's watching me, isn't he?
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
@@Roboat06 it just confounds me that dude would knowingly undermine his own legitimacy like that like... you did this for what?
Epilepsy/Strobe effect warning, close your eyes from 0:54 until 1:10. It's harsh on a large TV screen and/or in a dark room.
"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.
This is also related the rate of adhd in kids. Kids who were born closer to the cut-off for admissions tend to be more likely to present with adhd symptoms. An explanation to that is simply that their brains are not as developed as the other kids in their cohort so it seems like they're hyperactive or can't concentrate when for the most part they're okay and just need time to develop. That's not to say that adhd isn't real, it just explains why kids born closer to the cut-off are more likely to present with those symptoms.
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.
Ngl I thought this was an ad for one of those fake horoscope apps when I saw the title
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)
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
That got surprisingly existential for me trying to figure out when it's best to have a kid
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..
Yeah, this is going to go viral. Great Job!
Now I know why people born in April, may, June, July are just born depressed.
I was born dumb (and depressed) in April. You’re right
(JOKE I was born sort of happy and dumb)
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
“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)
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.
Is the screen supposed to be blinking at 0:59? It could disorient some people.
And where’s the music?
I have a pretty bad headache just watching that part now.
@@questionlp - They might’ve uploaded an unfinished version by mistake.
@@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!
I never checked it out, but it’s entirely possible that the entirety of these video’s content comes directly from curiosity stream
Wow, another wonderful fantastic HAI episode that I can't wait to watch that will definitely be based entirely on fact
That’s not a fact 😟
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.
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
I was born on September 1st had a been been born a day earlier I would be a 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.
I know someone a few weeks older than me and a grade above me
I have also read a study that boys born later in the year tend to struggle in school more often and be more likely to get diagnosed with ADHD. It doesn't seem to apply to girls, possibly since I have heard that girls mature faster than boys.
girls are also just wayyyyy underdiagnosed with adhd compared to boys cus.... gender roles ig
I was born in the summer and I have ADD, I wonder if this is correlated?
WOW
@@soapthesoap Nope, this is talking about like preschool and primary age boys getting diagnosed and turning out not to have ADHD when they are adults. And it was more of a problem for those born in November and December, not so much those in the summer.
Girls don't "mature faster than boys," girls are simply pressured to behave better and are given more restrictions, while boys are let off with "boys will be boys."
In the U.K. the age cut off is September 1st as that’s around about when the school year starts
The J.Crew Mannequin joke made me spit out my water
People born on 20 April have an advantage over us
Well I'm born on april 20th, but so was hitler too. So yeah maybe hitler did weed?
me who was born on 4/20: M I N D B L O W N
Only in America as the rest of the world know how to write the date correctly
Arthur Morgan yes it’s true, but I’m a British person, I wasn’t born in the right country.
@@K_ingh16 you are right
This video told me nothing about how my birth month affects my life. Just a rehash of Gladwell's info on kids sports.
Literally have read it. My teacher recommended I read it and gave me Outliers. Well worth the read folks.
4:26 found something for the next apology video. The disc itself isn't slippery, the ground is duh!
The "Buengo Sadsick" joke has to be the most stupidest joke i have ever heard.
i love it.
It is, simultaneously, a new high and new low for the channel
"Don't @ me"
Half as interesting, 14/04/2021
Interesting.
(No I haven’t watched this video yet lmao)
To me it's only half as interesting
@@TimTams_64 intere
lol
@@TimTams_64 I think my comment is half as interesting.
4:46 counterpoint: Drew Brees, the actual greatest American Football player of all time, was born in January, right in the middle of the academic year.
Sam just got 2 million new subscribers which are all zodiac gorls
5:38 Then, he lost them all.
I'm born in January...😬
I wonder how things could be different in the Southern Hemisphere, where seasons are the opposite, and not only sports, but school is set on a cutoff from January to December.
Title: ,, How Your Birth Month Actually Affects Your Life"
Me: Well, do tell.
No joke I had to read outliers for school and it completely fascinated me. I start sentences with “Did you know” a whole lot.
me who has nothing to do with sports or politics: "I'm inevitable"
0:55 I KNEW IT. I KNEW IT. I have tons of hockey cards and most of the players' birth month is january, February and march
It was weird being at school as an August baby with those almost a year older than me, luckily I had inate ability at maths and never had to compete.
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.
'If you're the kind of person who starts sentences with "Hey, did you know..."' Well shit I didn't expect to be attacked like this
The Tom Brady deflating football joke didn’t age too well LOL
Never been this early
Oof
Woohoo
Same
Same
Same
You guys should make a video on Hawking Radiation and the fate of the Universe
Are the academic effects reversed in the southern hemisphere, where age cut-offs for schooling are in the middle of the year
In volleyball we see the same effects around growth spurts. The best youth athletes are the ones who grow early and gain a significant advantage over their smaller peers. But the ones that reach top level are the ones who stayed short for a while, learned proper jumping and hitting technique, and then still get their growth spurt later.
Taurus? Happy birthday!
Taurus rising, not sun. His sun can be any sign, but he was born at a certain time which makes him a Taurus RISING. If you base it solely on his birthday, you mean his sun sign. Also, we're not in Taurus szn yet
Advantages... Like never being able to have a fun birthday party because there is always a ton of snow. But I'm not salty at all, thanks mom
A proud Scorpio representative here
people hate us cuz' they ain't us
f you
-an Aquarius
In my country, students born in late months as November, December 1990 are grouped into the same batch as 1991 batch. So that's your solution.