I wanted to be a naval pilot engineer at four. I’m colorblind, terrified of heights, not fond of authority, sloppy, and scatterbrained as hell. It’s quite possibly the worst possible job for me. To be fair, part of the reason was that I hated the word “bellybutton” and thought anyone who said ”navel” instead had the right idea, so it’s not like I really understood that part of it.

Unfortunate, i know lots of engineers who never learned math.

Man, I really can't get why ppl hate math.

It says all the children were given an option to pick up to 3 answers.

Mmhmm, I also noticed that, which is why it's the second sentence in my post.

Given the small sample size

It's a survey of 3,000? It's still possible that only one person was giving the survey to the Chinese students.

But yeah, it does look like the Chinese students got different instructions or had them explained differently or something. Just a strange poll.

This poll annoyed me so much I googled it. It's just a really shitty poll. There is no reason to believe the 5 listed jobs is a subset of the answers. This is an infographic summarizing a single question from a survey that seems to be commissioned by LEGO.

Article from the "Harris Poll"

I couldn't find like, an academic paper describing the poll. There's no methodology for it I can find. It's just some corporate fluff piece, frankly.

So I guess 3% if these are the only 3 countries included

Yep, only 3 countries. This is just a trash poll.