This is actually pretty depressing. Basically "hey kids, if you have a crappy childhood, remember you probably have a crappy adulthood to look forward to!"

“most teens in 1997 strongly agreed their future would be optimistic” 💀 little did they know…

The video is super interesting, but the constant changing of colors made it confusing to follow.

I spent way too long writing a big-ass paragraph, was about to finish it and then I accidentally pressed the back button on my browser

Amazing video, but please put percentages because sometimes simply saying that a section is longer than another isn't helpful when they aren't the same height(misleading data)

You don’t get to shape your childhood, but you get to shape your children’s childhood. I know it’s not easy, but every minute of it is worth it.

alright, you're probably not looking for it, but I'm gonna give some feedback: the data was rather hard to properly interpret using your way of displaying it. I understand you're going for a cool looking representation but here it's really detracting from the message. the numbers are percentual but you also include how many are in each group which makes it rather hard to track. Using the same colors for different data that changes rather rapidly also makes it rather hard to see what's going on. the only way I 'got' my information was by whatever you were saying, by the facts you recounted, not by the visual on the screen. prime example: "you can see that a HUGE portion of kids..." (4:05) I was taken very of guard, because it is almost impossible to interpret how big it is in comparison. percentually, looking at the colors, it's not that different from "no adverse experience", but then again the horizontal 'width" of the no adverse experience group is stretched meaning you can't make a good comparison. Then I saw that the middle group is way bigger and there it was even harder to gauge how the percentual numbers stacked up. The whole visual makes me (at first glance) think that there is barely a difference here, while you say otherwise! but yeah for the rest, cool vid idea, conceptually cool visuals. Feel free to ignore this critique, it's just my POV.

It is so difficult to be a good parent but it is absolutely vital to the success and wellbeing of your children. No kid should suffer parental neglect.

0:53 love how as he ages, he doesn’t get taller, he just becomes *w i d e r*

Hehehe I like how the little people run Also the lifelong adverse trauma is pretty interesting, especially reflecting on how adverse experiences have shaped who I am today. I'm in the emerging adult stage and I feel being in college has definitely helped me slowly prepare to be an adult. The fastest way to get to where you wanna go is slowly. Take it easy, find an outlet for your stress and you'll be there soon.

This video seems like it's supposed to be optimistic and whatnot but it just makes me realize I'm literally never going to amount to anything at all.

I want to know more about the people who have many adverse experiences and still finish 4 years college degree.

Interestingly, the graph at 4:46 also shows, that the group with no adverse experiences had less "happy all of the time" people, than the other two groups.

There is still a limit on how much you can blame on your childhood...

how does this only have 550 views? Very well made video.

As someone who is in their period of limbo from childhood to adulthood with negative childhood experiences, I now worry what the future will look like more than ever before. As a child and a teen, you're encouraged to put so much trust in the system that is supposed to reward hard work, but I wonder if all that work really makes any difference. It's rather depressing knowing I might not be able to escape where I've come from, but also terrifying and exciting knowing I have the opportunity to make my own of it.

I don't usually watch videos like this but the youtube recommended thought I needed to watch it, and I did need this. I often hear the argument that tragic experiences shape the person and prepare them for their future. This is not the case. Looking forward to seeing what you do in your future.

Why didn't you show percentages or quantities at any point in the video? I understand you're making an artistic choice, but at some points (the happiness graphic, for one) the data directly contradicts your statements.

The software you used to depict the graphs is an interesting gimmick, but often hard to read. You place the tiny legend at the top in reverse order, the stacks are different in thickness, so it's hard to visually read the ratio depicted.

Incredibly well put together video. I could see this becoming even better with time, something I'm excited for to see whenever you upload.

As a retired HR and Training guy, I saw first-hand the "Alex's" and the social challenges they brings to a workplace. I actually had a young woman say that she loved work because it was where she was "safe" and sought overtime work to delay her inevitable trip back home. I never chose to have kids of my own. Too many examples of parenting failures around me growing up. We (as a species) NEED to do better if we CHOOSE to become parents!

Remember, correlation is not causation. This is an observational study with many unmeasured variables. I was both held back and bullied as a kid, but being held back has helped me with school and being bullied has left me to focus more on my grades and not where I stand socially. Now I am going this year to pursue a master's in architecutre and design with scholarships :D

Amazing and informative video. I loved the visuals, the voice over/script, and the music! I hope this topic becomes more widespread bc it is super important

very well made, but next time, keep the diagramms on the same length, with different lengths for number of adverse experiences it is not easily comparable, instead more increase in the vertical direction, as you did for them too

This was an amazing video! Hopefully the production quality grants this channel the traction it deserves.

What an amazing and engaging video on an important and overlooked topic! Thanks for your contribution, this needs more views

This is one of those videos I know i’m going to remember for the rest of my life. Thank you for this ❤

This is the most important visualization The Pudding has ever released. I am subscribing in the hope that you will post more such stories based on real world data. Thank you.

just a youtube tip- title and thumbnail is why this video is severely underperforming

I think the visualization, while cool, lacks clarity. Having a different number of rows and columns per category, and a different number as years change is silly. There seems to be a lot of "look at the size of the box" i.e. the absolute number of people. But if there're more total people in a category that could make one box look bigger despite having the same percentage. At the bare minimum put percentage or pie graph on the side as well!

Loved the video and the message. I hope more people see this!

College being an intermediate between highschool and adulthood is so true though. I'm a freshman in college about to be sophmore and I feel like I'm still a kid but trying to act like an adult. I don't know how to explain it better than that, weird period. But honestly so much better than highschool though im ngl, done with that part of my life.

The format is very nicely done. But it moves through the conclusions/commentary very quickly, you have to pause at each thing to confirm the diagram matches what he’s saying. And honestly it seems like sometimes it doesn’t. The box highlights certain intersections of groups and looks at just their size, rather than comparing their size to other relevant intersections to establish a baseline. Rough example, it’s the difference between pointing out that many people with many adverse experiences have low income, and comparing the intersection of low income and many adversities with low income and some adversity, and low income and no adversity. And other ways to slice the data

Such a phenomenal video! So well put together and informational! As others have said, and I agree, I think a title update would do much better for enticing others to watch this!

Would be super cool to also look at the CDC/Kaiser Permanente ACEs study as well, it shows a similar dose-dependent relationship between ACEs and health outcomes. I wasn't aware of this study and it was really great to see the results and your cool animations! Good work, looking forward to more!

Commenting for the algorithm. Very enjoyable way to view data, just a bit fast-paced. I love it regardless. ❤

I think it's a great message that you are portraying, I think that every person should strive to take as much responsibility for yourself as possible. The more responsibility you take in your life, the better the world will be. I believe this to be true.

This is a fantastic video. Very well done

this is pure gold. I lovee your channel!

Wishing the best for Alex, and if nothing changes for him, I wish the best for his kids.

Such an insightful piece shedding light on the long-term effects of childhood experiences on adulthood outcomes! 🌟 It underscores the importance of addressing childhood trauma and providing supportive environments for our youth to thrive and reach their full potential.

This is very interesting, keep up the good work!

Very insightful video!

The graphics are very pretty, but by presenting the data as a set of discreet points, effectively volume, it is hard to process the visuals as comparable datapoints without visual aids cool topic and great video

crazy good editing, u gone blow up !

Great video. Keep it up man

Thos was a Amazing Narration and Visualisation of the Study and the Words at the End were great. I remember from a British Study that reading a book to the Kid before sleep helped suprinsingly a lot. Being Poor in Love is more detrimental than in Money.

Maybe you could explore what this means, ie that people growing up in risky environments are more likely to financialy struggle when they reach adulthood, other than that it's really good!

Commenting for the KZfaq algorithm to pick up on this because brother you deserve to blow up! See you on top 🎉

Great video. Awesome animations and storytelling. I feel like it could use a little more exploration of the background research and statistics to support the idea that adverse childhood experiences are this most important step in the causal chain. I think it'd lend the argument credibility and selfishly, I love research and stats so it follows that I'd make such a demand. Nonetheless, kickass video. I may have just found a new favorite channel

The gods of the KZfaq Algorithm showed me this channel, and thank god they did. This video was an amazing watch and the interactive website as well is so fascinating. Thank you for making this.

Subscribed! Amazing video, it honestly is a trip to see how experiences will ultimately shape your life. We are living it, so to that, make 'good' choices because in the end, we make the bed we lay, some may even start without a bed; at times it may be hard to realize, but we determine how far we take it and how much we push. I wish good health and wealth to all of you no matter what color or creed. Peace ✌

As a middle and high school teacher, I'm always bothered by how much adults blame kids for their own situations. Other teachers and parents, they are always saying kids have to take responsiblity, that they are "already grown up" and it's their fault when something goes wrong (this starts as soon as 11 or 12 years old, in my experience). And then we adults also control and micromanage every aspect of their lives. We control what they can and can't do and sometimes even force them into choosing a single option, and then we blame then when it all goes wrong. Even in households that have none of those "adverse experiences" you mention, they still have issues that can scar them. Perfectionists parents that ask too much from them, rich parents that are never in their home because they need to work 2 or 3 jobs to mantain their lifestyle, or their job keeps them travelling most of the time, exposition to higher class standards that makes them feel bad with themselves when they can't reach the stupidly high standards of the people that surround them. We adults fuck around too much with them like they are not real people, and then get angry at them when they don't consider themselves real people. We seriously need to stop. For me, it all starts in education. Most adults went through that experience when they were teenagers so they think that's the only way to treat a teenager. But a single parent or teacher can make a big change, IMO. If you interact with a teenager, just talk to them about this, give them the chance to choose, listen to them, tell them that yeah, you also went through that and you also think it's bullshit and SHOW them that it is possible to be treated differently by an adult. That teenager will grow, and become an adult that doesn't replicate the cycle with the teenagers in their life. It's a slow process, but it's the only way.

Great video, one critique though is that you use different row/lengths for each group. I understand the numbers are changing, but it makes it hard to visualize the data. Maybe have 3 fixed rows, instead of 2 for the 1st group, 4 for the 2nd, and 3 for the 3rd.

you should add percentages and go a bit slower with the introduction of new colors, cause it was a bit hard to follow. Other than that, this was the most intresting video i've seen in the last week, I love the style and dedication that has been put into it, keep it up!

btw this video tries to imply that childhood adverse experiences are the primary cause economic hardship, which is not something you can say from a corrolational study. It could just as well be that the economic hardship of the parents (or some other common factor) causes economic hardship for the child and adverse experiences are just a side effect.

Great vid. Subscribed!

the video is really nice, i hope there will be more videos like this in the future, but i agree that using different colors for different data would make the video easier to keep up with

Nice video. Very professional looking and great narration. My only gripe is when you say which group "mostly" does or has something. The numbers are almost always higher for the middle group in every case you brought up. Sure, percentage wise, those that reported they experienced no adverse experiences/many adverse experiences, may have a higher chance for a given thing, but when you look at those numbers, the largest percentage of people in general are the ones who experienced some adverse events. This isn't a really a problem, I guess. I just think it could have been reworded a bit. Oh well, the general point is understood and that is what really matters after all.

Amazing editing!

the two things i got from this are that if you have a rough childhood, you're going to carry that with you and it'll make things hard in the future and even if you have a great childhood you can still have problems in adulthood.

Cudos to whoever animated this. Also those who did the research and wrote the script and the guy who readit out, it was really really well made

The animations are beautiful! Unbelievable this video doesn't get pushed more

Shouldn't the teens who got to live a happy life feel guilty? If they don't, it's rather unfair

great video!!!

It's also worth talking about the incomes of their parents.

I loved this! Aesthetically, how you present the information, the subject, the ethics. Thank you Also, while I was whatching this I thought that it would be so interesting to see how neurodivergence (autism, ADHD, dyslexia and others) affect us in the long term run. I am a 25 year old autistic woman (also with ADHD) diagnosed last month and many of my friends are autistic, so I know that for us the chances of getting bullied are higher, or getting socially ostracized, for example. The academic performance also varies. In my case, my special interests related to science and art and sociology helped me retain the information I was asked to know, but when executive functioning was required (planning ahead, doing homework, study in advance) I failed. Not every neurodivergent person is the same, but for many of us, we were considered "gifted" because school was easy for us, but as we get older and more consistency and work is required, the grades start to falter and people get dissapointed becuase "you were so smart. And we, whom have been reliant on or academic performance in a way to get approval, because maybe we were not popular or not liked, end up feeling like we're good for nothing, and that ends up hurting our career prospects, future and mental health...

Wow the jump from Held back, Suspended, and then See someone shot with a gun is crazy.

I was verbally and physically abused by both my parents, I was bullied at school, I had mental and physical health problems. I didn't go to colleges because of financial reasons. It lines up...

Very interesting, especially the facts & conclusion. Longitudinal studies are hard to do. Take it easy Alex :]

Very good video,this needs more views.

The data visualization with the human figures is visually pleasing but statistically ambiguous. I found it hard to gather from a glance the proportion of each group in each data category. This is because the adverse experience groups were all of different size, so looking at absolute numbers doesn't give a complete comparison. I think including the actual percentage breakdowns for each group in addition to the shown visuals would have been a useful addition.

I agree with other comments that the visulization is a bit shaky. However, I'm still going to comment because I think this is a really interesting video and I want the algorithm to boost it.

crazy this video has less than 3k views and is so informative!

Commenting to hopefully increase engagement and get this picked up by the algorithm. Great vid!

Truly a great video! Although it was confusing for a second there with the colors but i quickly understood what was going on maybe a heads-up next time would be good & i almost didnt click on this video because of the title & thumbnail Good thing that i eventually did :)

Amazing video!!

Great video

People say that this video was hard to follow. it wasn't. This video was well made and easy to follow.

Something interesting is that you learn by trial and error, but if you fail, you are punished. It doesn't make much sense.

I don't know if I'm receiving this right, but most of these statistics seem like they have close to equal percentages? Correct me if I'm wrong.

agree with other comments. would love to see a remake of this with an easier-to-follow structure; otherwise, it starts getting a bit annoying. very cool idea though, looking forward to improvements!

Amazing! A shame it has so few views

Yes, I agree that struggles and adverse experiences during childhood are challenging. However, the message that people can use their childhood experiences as an excuse for not doing well in adulthood is a terrible message to send. I was abandoned as a child, struggled with speech problems, and others tried to hold me back with their low expectations. Now, through striving to do my best and developing self-confidence, I am graduating as the co-valedictorian of my high school class. Don’t let challenges early in life hold you back.

I can see others have commented the same and I do want to say I respect and value the artistic effort put into the video, but the visual form of the data presentation was extremely difficult to follow. At first I thought oh this is neat they have little animations, but by the time I was halfway through I had given up on trying to interpret the ratios of groups with all the rapid movement and lack of text presentation to match. And to be clear I don't think it's just the movement and colors, I think the formatting/presentation of the groups and trying to represent outcomes in other categories, with the presentation of rows of tallies with some each grouping having a different number of rows, is very tough to visually digest.

Amazing video!!! I loved the visual analysis!!

Love the message

as a 14 year old, i have a bright future im committed to but i cant stop holding myself back because i feel like im not gonna improve or be good enough. i dream to be in the military and now my family expects me to be in it, too. so now i feel like i have to push myself towards that goal. i think right now im doing okay, this year really hasnt been going great. i had horrible social anxiety last year and also got bullied, luckily i was able to improve a lot from switching schools + going to highschool. i still struggle with talking to people and prefer being alone, i also cant stop lashing out or crying every single month. i havent had a week where i wasnt upset at least once, or cried at least once. im suspecting i have discouraged borderline personality disorder right now, and i dont have anyone to talk to. im a very sensitive empathetic person so its hard to not be emotional over little things. i really dont like myself and i wish i could improve but i don't know how. i keep resorting to wanting to give up. i feel like my mom always misunderstands my feelings and im someone who doesnt like sharing about my emotions because i always feel invalidated for feeling upset, and convince myself that im ovverreacting. i don't really know how to feel anymore sorry if i said too much .... i saw another comment talking about their life at the same age as me, so i thought id do the same

I want someone to do this study on teens who lived through the pandemic and see how it'll turn out-

This content is pretty cool! I have never seen data like this before.

Great video!

I liked the video, consider adding percent's instead of visually showing sizes like that with the boxes, also consider adding onto what exactly these people gave data for, its a bit subjective and my big curiosity was "what are some more adverse experiences that would land you on that list" ,and "what other factors effect that family risk score". Knowing how subjective some things are that would be nice to know, and I assume many watching dont want to go and read the referenced pdf for that info. Also consider making it closer to 10min I heard you get better ad revenue money and engagement.

Great video one little feedback. Maybe include percentages, otherwise we can't really form our own opinion from the data presented. Without percentages, the whole data seems very chaotic to me. Its not clear what the exact difference is. But otherwise well done also visually its defiantly cool af!

Fantastic video

Amazing video!

very well made video, nice! :D

I've read this book called "Switch: How to Change Things when Change is hard" and in it says sometimes we're so wired to look for problems that we overlook the bright spots. The bright spots are purple kids in the group that is majority pink. Why are their lives different? Is there anything we can learn from them that we can give the others in their same group?

i loved this video! ❤

Cool video, thanks for tracking my life!

very well-done video that deserves more views.