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  • Interesting but ultimately useless statistics.
  • andrewh
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    I quite like these two:
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    The Vatican City has the greatest pope-density of any nation, with 2 popes/sqkm (it has one pope and is roughly half a square kilometer) Italy is next with 0.000008595 ex-popes/sqkm. All other countries have 0 popes/sqkm.
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    99.99999% of people have more than the average number of legs.
    Think of how many people have three legs (very few, the odd genetic abnormality or conjoined twin) and how many people have one or no legs (not many, but certainly more than have three) Therefore the average number of legs per person is about 1.99999, meaning 99.99999% of people have more than the average.
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    Let’s hear yours.

    mikewsmith
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjvQFtlNQ-M[/video]
    60% of the time it works every time….

    aracer
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    72.8% of statistics are made up on the spot.

    wiggles
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    More people are killed each year by vending machines than sharks.

    bearnecessities
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    8 out of 10 cats are assassins.

    mikewsmith
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    On the Sharks

    oliverd1981
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    I saw a presentation a couple of years back , allegedly produced by the HSE that stated that 16% of workplace accidents were caused by the injured part being stuck by a stationary object.

    leffeboy
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    40% of people are off work sick either on a Monday or a Friday – dodgy eh?

    Klunk
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    40% of people are off work sick either on a Monday or a Friday – dodgy eh?

    depends how many day you are sick for, one day yes, 3 days and it is just about bang on the money if sickness has a random distribution.

    wwaswas
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    9 out of 10 people with foot problems are Romanian

    alibongo001
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    Only 1 in 7 dwarves is happy!

    teamhurtmore
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    The worlds population can fit on the isle of white.

    Stoner
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    hp_source
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    Saw these a while back… Most popular names of babies by year

    maccruiskeen
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    The worlds population can fit on the isle of white.

    They could, but almost all of the world choses not to do so, which says pretty much all we need to know about the Isle of Wight really.

    catsplums
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    in 10 years time 60% of statistics will be incorrect.

    aracer
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    Those movie things are just a form of confirmation bias. Nobody makes movies about the housekeeper stuck in an unsatisfying relationship with the geek fixing printers, who got in the car and escaped.

    jonahtonto
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    the average chainsaw accident requires 110 stiches

    bails
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    I saw a presentation a couple of years back , allegedly produced by the HSE that stated that 16% of workplace accidents were caused by the injured part being stuck by a stationery object

    FTFY, beware of low-flying staplers.

    andrewh
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    If you took all of the veins and arteries out of your body and lined them up end to end in one big long continuous line, you’d be dead.
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    The longest flight ever recorded by a domestic chicken is 11 seconds.

    JoeG
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    andrewh
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    lunge
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    There are more Barbie dolls in the world than Canadians.

    lehutch
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    aracer
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    numbnut
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    johndoh
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    I like this one….

    Famous Movie Quotes as Charts

    molgrips
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    1 in 3 people in the world is either Indian or Chinese.

    maccruiskeen
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    I had no idea so many people were so unsure of their ethnicity 🙂

    bungle
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    [/quote]The worlds population can fit on the isle of white.

    Just a bit out of date, see John Brunner’s 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar. Still a good read.

    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar

    BigButSlimmerBloke
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    The worlds population can fit on the isle of white.

    Is that where Godfrey Bloom lives?

    wwaswas
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    There are more people in the UK that believe spurious statistics who’s names begin with A, B or C than X, Y or Z.

    timidwheeler
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    100% of the people currently sat on my sofa, find Dilbert very funny.

    wwaswas
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    100% of people who go into a Mountain Bike shop that doesn’t sell 26″ wheeled bikes and subsequently make a purchase choose 650B or 29″.

    nicko74
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    In industrial countries, it’s more likely to rain on a Thursday than any other day of the week.

    Bimbler
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    Not really stats, but maths, but apparently

    You can add an infinite series of positive numbers, and they’ll add up to a negative fraction.

    Haven’t watched the video yet, but wha?

    Strapline

    This post involves math. Really bizarre, brain-melting math. The math itself is actually not that complicated—I promise!—but the result will carve out a piece of your soul and leave hollow space. Seriously, please, bear with this. I pounded my head on my desk enough to leave a dent in the wood and a welt in my forehead to figure this out, so please just stick with it. When it’s done, you’ll have a better appreciation for just how completely flippin’ weird our Universe is.

    maccruiskeen
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    When people loose their TV remote control the places where they find them again are

    50% of instances – down the side of the sofa
    4% of instances – in the fridge freezer
    2% of instances – in their car

    maxtorque
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    0.01% of instances – in the dog

    Drac
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    When people lose something 100% it’s in the place they look.

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