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Did a computer forecast your career?

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Alistair Mooney Alistair Mooney | 11:00 UK time, Friday, 20 June 2008

Listen again to today's Radio Scotland programme The Computer that Changed our Future - a review of the accuracy of Jiig-Cal, the 80s computerised career search. How many people followed its advice?

Jiig-Cal printout - Gareth Saunders

Tinker, tailor - cabinet-maker? In the 1980s thousands of school children all over Scotland filled out a questionnaire which promised to reveal their destinies. Their answers were sent in a sealed van to Edinburgh University and fed into a computer which revealed what their career path would be, with some surprising results. Twenty years later we discover how many people followed Jiig-Cal's advice.

Read more about on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland news website.

In case you're wondering, Jiig-Cal stands for Job Ideas & Information Generator - Computer Assisted Learning. Well, there you go.

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