# Can you tell? \[child's future by age 16\]

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 1, 2020, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-tell-childs-future-by-age-16/847344 "2020-02-01T21:02:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-tell-childs-future-by-age-16/847344/6 "2020-02-02T03:06:23Z")

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I think I can walk into any classroom of first-graders and predict, after a half a day, with 90% accuracy, which will grow up to be OK andd which will not. But I don’t think you can break it down to much finer percentiles than that.

Too much depends on who a kid chooses to be his role model.

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