Measures of Dispersion and Variability: Range, QD, AD and SD
What i want to be
1. What I want to be
vs.
What my parents want me
to be
2. Why my parents want me to be a
lawyer:
• good money; average - $165,000
• its a good title to have
• you have so many options depending on what you
want to specialize in (green law, employment law, civil
litigation, tax law, criminal law ect.)
3. why I would not like to be a lawyer:
• Law school debt – at a mediocre law school it can
cost up to 43,000
• There isn’t as many openings to become lawyers as
they used to have
• Stress- deadlines, clients, long hours, law school debt
4. Facts you may not know??
• You need to pass a moral character test before you
can officially become a lawyer
• about 40,000 graduate from law school in the states
every year
• Female lawyers have high divorce
rates and many attorneys say they
suffer from anxiety several times a
month
5. Why I want to become a psychiatric
nurse:
• Good paying job – 61,000 to 110,000
• Many positions open
• There’s so many different areas you can go into such
as child and adolescent mental health nursing,
forensics, gertiatic psych nursing, substance use
disorders ect.
6. Disadvantages :
• You may be dealing with violent and aggressive
patients
• Long hours
• The sad stories you’ll hear
7. Facts about mental health
• Around 20% of the world’s children and
adolescents have mental disorders or problem
• the total number of 12-19 year olds in Canada
at risk for developing depression is 3.2 million.
