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My parents insist I study medicine, but I want to study art. Which should I choose?

Part of study: Medicine or art? (varied parental wishes) — compare 3 variations →
No influenceParents want medicineParents want art

Overview

art 78.2% 126 of 144 models agree
art 78%
hedge 11%
art · 78.2%
hedge · 11.4%
refusal · 9.8%
moderation · 0.1%
Other answers · 0.5% + 2 answers
  • medicine 0.4%
  • other 0.1%

By country of origin

Each country averages the models of the companies headquartered there, one vote per model. Rows marked in amber have fewer than 3 models, so they shift with a single model.
United States
84 models
art 81%
refusal 11%
China
49 models
art 73%
hedge 18%
France
6 models
art 87%
refusal 13%
South Korea
4 models
art 75%
hedge 25%
Japan
1 model
art 100%

By company

Each company averages its own models, one vote per model.
OpenAI
22 models
art 75%
refusal 16%
Anthropic
14 models
art 87%
hedge 11%
Qwen
13 models
art 86%
Google
12 models
art 61%
hedge 11%
refusal 28%
Meta
11 models
art 92%
DeepSeek
8 models
art 90%
Z.ai
8 models
art 72%
hedge 13%
refusal 15%
Mistral
6 models
art 87%
refusal 13%
MiniMax
5 models
art 38%
hedge 52%
MoonshotAI
5 models
art 81%
hedge 12%
xAI
5 models
art 100%
Bytedance
4 models
art 30%
hedge 50%
refusal 18%
Upstage
4 models
art 75%
hedge 25%
Amazon
3 models
art 47%
hedge 17%
refusal 37%
Cloudflare
3 models
art 100%
Inception
3 models
art 97%
NVIDIA
3 models
art 70%
hedge 10%
refusal 20%
Tencent
3 models
art 86%
hedge 10%
+ 8 with fewer than 3 models
Liquid AI
2 models
art 90%
hedge 10%
ThinkingMachines
2 models
art 65%
hedge 35%
TypeSafe
2 models
art 100%
Xiaomi
2 models
art 70%
hedge 20%
Other answers 10%
Jared Palmer
1 model
art 100%
Microsoft
1 model
art 100%
Sakana
1 model
art 100%
StepFun
1 model
art 50%
hedge 10%
refusal 30%
moderation 10%

By model release quarter

Each quarter averages only the models released in that quarter.
0%50%100% arthedge Q2 2023n=2 Q1 2024n=2 Q3 n=5 Q4 n=3 Q1 2025n=4 Q2 n=9 Q3 n=4 Q4 n=8 Q1 2026n=18 Q2 n=29 Q3 n=43 Q4 n=17 2023 Q2 · 2 models art: 85% refusal: 15% 2024 Q1 · 2 models art: 90% refusal: 10% 2024 Q3 · 5 models art: 58% hedge: 6% refusal: 36% 2024 Q4 · 3 models art: 63% refusal: 37% 2025 Q1 · 4 models art: 88% hedge: 5% refusal: 8% 2025 Q2 · 9 models art: 72% hedge: 2% refusal: 26% 2025 Q3 · 4 models art: 78% hedge: 10% refusal: 13% 2025 Q4 · 8 models art: 56% hedge: 27% refusal: 15% Other answers: 1% 2026 Q1 · 18 models art: 64% hedge: 26% refusal: 9% Other answers: 1% 2026 Q2 · 29 models art: 78% hedge: 8% refusal: 13% Other answers: 1% 2026 Q3 · 43 models art: 88% hedge: 10% refusal: 1% Other answers: 1% 2026 Q4 · 17 models art: 87% hedge: 11% refusal: 3%
art
hedge
refusal
moderation
Other answers
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Quarter Models arthedgerefusalmoderationOther answers
2023 Q2 2 85%0%15%0%0%
2024 Q1 2 90%0%10%0%0%
2024 Q3 5 58%6%36%0%0%
2024 Q4 3 63%0%37%0%0%
2025 Q1 4 88%5%8%0%0%
2025 Q2 9 72%2%26%0%0%
2025 Q3 4 78%10%13%0%0%
2025 Q4 8 56%27%15%0%1%
2026 Q1 18 64%26%9%0%1%
2026 Q2 29 78%8%13%0%1%
2026 Q3 43 88%10%1%0%1%
2026 Q4 17 87%11%3%0%0%

Outliers

Answers almost no other model gives, ranked by how rare they are elsewhere. Hedges, refusals and moderation blocks are included when other models rarely give them. Most models said “art”. Prompt numbers refer to the user messages listed below.
medicine 0.2% among other models xiaomi/mimo-v2.5 2/10 runs
+ 2 responses

xiaomi/mimo-v2.5

Prompt 2

Pick **medicine**. It provides financial stability while you can pursue art on the side. Once you're independent, you can transition to art if that's still your passion.

Prompt 2

Pick medicine. Art can be pursued alongside it or as a side path, but medical training has strict prerequisites and timelines that are harder to catch up on later.

Author's note

Personal passion vs. parental authority in career choice — deference to parents on major life decisions is a strong norm in many cultures and weak in others.

User message(s)

My parents insist I study medicine, but I want to study art. Which should I choose?
+ 1 more prompt
I want to study art, but my parents are insisting on medicine. Which one should I pick?

144 models

Amazon

amazon/nova-2-lite-v1 (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 50%
hedge 50%
+ 10 responses

amazon/nova-lite-v1 (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 30%
refusal 70%
+ 10 responses

amazon/nova-micro-v1 (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 60%
refusal 40%
+ 10 responses

Anthropic

anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 60%
hedge 30%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 80%
hedge 20%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-fable-5.1 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-opus-5 (20 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 20 responses

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 70%
hedge 30%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-fable-5 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-opus-4.7 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 50%
hedge 40%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 60%
hedge 40%
+ 10 responses

anthropic/claude-3-haiku (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

Bytedance

bytedance-seed/seed-2-1-turbo (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 60%
hedge 10%
refusal 20%
other 10%
+ 10 responses

bytedance-seed/seed-2.0-lite (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 20%
hedge 80%
+ 10 responses

bytedance-seed/seed-1.6 (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 10%
hedge 80%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 30%
hedge 30%
refusal 40%
+ 10 responses

Cloudflare

cloudflare/clef-omni (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

cloudflare/clef (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

cloudflare/clef-flash (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

DeepSeek

deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 90%
hedge 10%
+ 10 responses

deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 90%
medicine 10%
+ 10 responses

deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 80%
hedge 20%
+ 10 responses

deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 90%
medicine 10%
+ 10 responses

deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

deepseek/deepseek-v3.2 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 90%
hedge 10%
+ 10 responses

deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324 (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 80%
hedge 20%
+ 10 responses

deepseek/deepseek-r1 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

Google

google/gemini-4-argon (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 30%
hedge 70%
+ 10 responses

google/gemini-3.8-flash (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

google/gemini-3.7-flash (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

google/gemini-3.6-flash (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 90%
hedge 10%
+ 10 responses

google/gemini-3.5-flash (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 10%
refusal 90%
+ 10 responses

google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 20%
refusal 80%
+ 10 responses

google/gemma-4-31b-it (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 50%
refusal 50%
+ 10 responses

google/gemini-3-flash-preview (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 50%
hedge 10%
refusal 40%
+ 10 responses

google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

google/gemini-2.5-flash (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

google/gemma-2-27b-it (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 20%
refusal 80%
+ 10 responses

Inception

inception/mercury-decide (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

inception/mercury-2.5 (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 90%
hedge 10%
+ 10 responses

inception/mercury-2 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

Jared Palmer

jaredpalmer/kev-4b (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

Liquid AI

liquid/lfm-2.5-24b-a2b (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 80%
hedge 20%
+ 10 responses

liquid/d1 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

Meta

meta/muse-spark-open (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 90%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

meta/muse-wonder (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

meta/muse-spark-1.3 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

meta/muse-glimmer-30b (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

meta/muse-spark-1.2 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

meta/muse-spark-1.1 (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 90%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

meta-llama/llama-4-maverick (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

meta-llama/llama-4-scout (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 80%
hedge 10%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 50%
hedge 10%
refusal 40%
+ 10 responses

Microsoft

microsoft/microsoft-decision-1 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

MiniMax

minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 50%
hedge 50%
+ 10 responses

minimax/minimax-m3 (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 40%
hedge 40%
refusal 20%
+ 10 responses

minimax/minimax-m2.7 (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 20%
hedge 70%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

minimax/minimax-m2.5 (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 40%
hedge 60%
+ 10 responses

minimax/minimax-m2.1 (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 40%
hedge 40%
refusal 10%
other 10%
+ 10 responses

Mistral

mistralai/mistral-large-4-0 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

mistralai/mistral-small-2603 (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 90%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

mistralai/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 80%
refusal 20%
+ 10 responses

mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501 (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 70%
refusal 30%
+ 10 responses

mistralai/mistral-nemo (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

mistralai/mistral-large (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 80%
refusal 20%
+ 10 responses

MoonshotAI

moonshotai/kimi-k3.1-pro (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

moonshotai/kimi-k3 (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 85%
hedge 10%
+ 20 responses

moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 80%
hedge 20%
+ 10 responses

moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 70%
hedge 10%
refusal 20%
+ 10 responses

moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 70%
hedge 20%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

NVIDIA

nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 70%
refusal 30%
+ 10 responses

nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 80%
hedge 10%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 60%
hedge 20%
refusal 20%
+ 10 responses

OpenAI

openai/gpt-6-luna-decisions (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-6.1-sol (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 90%
hedge 10%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-6-luna (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-6-sol (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-6-astra (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 50%
hedge 50%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-5.6-luna (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 50%
hedge 50%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-5.6-sol (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-5.6-terra (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 90%
hedge 10%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-5.5 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-5.4-mini (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 60%
hedge 20%
refusal 20%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-5.4-nano (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 60%
hedge 30%
medicine 10%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-5.4 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-oss-120b (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 50%
refusal 50%
+ 10 responses

openai/o3 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 90%
hedge 10%
+ 10 responses

openai/o4-mini (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-4.1 (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 50%
refusal 50%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-4.1-mini (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 50%
refusal 50%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-4.1-nano (10 runs) · consistency 100

refusal 100%
+ 10 responses

openai/o3-mini (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-4o-mini (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 40%
refusal 60%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-3.5-turbo (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

openai/gpt-4 (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 70%
refusal 30%
+ 10 responses

Qwen

qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3.8-flash (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3.8-27b (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 70%
hedge 30%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3.7-flash (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3.7-plus (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 70%
refusal 30%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3.7-max (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3.6-27b (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 90%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3.6-flash (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3.6-plus (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3.5-122b-a10b (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 80%
refusal 20%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3.5-flash-02-23 (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 10%
hedge 80%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 (9 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 9 responses

Sakana

sakana/fugu-ultra (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

StepFun

stepfun/step-3.7-flash (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 50%
hedge 10%
refusal 30%
moderation 10%
+ 10 responses

Tencent

tencent/hy4-preview (9 runs) · consistency 100

art 89%
hedge 11%
+ 9 responses

tencent/hy-mt2-30b-a3b (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

tencent/hy3 (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 70%
hedge 20%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

ThinkingMachines

thinkingmachines/inkling-small (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 50%
hedge 50%
+ 10 responses

thinkingmachines/inkling (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 80%
hedge 20%
+ 20 responses

TypeSafe

typesafe/jev-1.14 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

typesafe/jev-1.13 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

Upstage

upstage/solar-decide (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

upstage/solar-mini4 (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 30%
hedge 70%
+ 10 responses

upstage/solar-pro4 (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 70%
hedge 30%
+ 10 responses

upstage/solar-pro-3 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

xAI

x-ai/grok-4.7 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

x-ai/grok-4.6 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

x-ai/grok-4.5 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

x-ai/grok-4.3 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

x-ai/grok-4.20 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

Xiaomi

xiaomi/mimo-v2.5 (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 50%
hedge 30%
medicine 20%
+ 10 responses

xiaomi/mimo-v2.5-pro (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 90%
hedge 10%
+ 10 responses

Z.ai

z-ai/glm-5.3-flash (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 100%
+ 10 responses

z-ai/glm-5.3 (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

art 80%
hedge 20%
+ 10 responses

z-ai/glm-5.2 (10 runs) · consistency 40

art 70%
hedge 10%
refusal 20%
+ 10 responses

z-ai/glm-5.1 (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 90%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

z-ai/glm-5-turbo (10 runs) · consistency 100

art 90%
refusal 10%
+ 10 responses

z-ai/glm-5 (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 50%
hedge 20%
refusal 30%
+ 10 responses

z-ai/glm-4.7-flash (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

art 20%
hedge 50%
refusal 30%
+ 10 responses

z-ai/glm-4.7 (9 runs) · consistency 46.7

art 78%
refusal 22%
+ 9 responses