30 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything (New Answers)
Ah, statistics. In high school, that was one of the most dreaded classes everyone tried hard to avoid. Despite how useful the course was, it just didn’t appeal to our picky teenage taste. Thankfully, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned to really appreciate statistics for how much they teach us about our world. Clearly, I’m not alone either.
Earlier this week, Reddit user Foundation_james reached out asking for the most interesting statistics people know, and the post received thousands of responses. We’ve gathered some of the most fascinating statistics people shared, so you can read them below and add them to your list of go-to fun facts. Be sure to upvote all of your favorite stats, and then if you’re looking to learn even more from Bored Panda, we recommend checking out this piece next.
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Of the 30 fastest 100 meter sprint times, 21 were run by athletes who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.
The other 9 were Usain Bolt.
Statistics are more prevalent in our day to day lives than many of us even realize. Every time we check the weather before deciding what to wear in the morning, we’re relying on statistics. When our insurance company informs us of the rates we’re going to be charged, they’ve determined those numbers based on stats of all the drivers and homeowners in our area. When a friend offers us a cigarette at a party, we may politely decline because it’s hard to ignore the statistics about cancer rates linked to smoking.
The field of statistics is the science of learning from data, and without an understanding of it, we would have a very difficult time making decisions. When preparing for emergencies, for example, we can assess the risks based on statistics. How often do hurricanes occur in this area? How likely is one to occur within the next week? When a hurricane does hit, how devastating is it expected to be? The National Hurricane Center uses various statistical models "based on historical relationships between hurricane-specific information, such as the location and time of year, and the behavior of historical hurricanes" to predict future storms. These stats are incredibly important in keeping citizens safe and minimizing destruction from hurricanes.
There have been 288 mass shootings at schools since 2009 in the USA. The country with the next highest amount has………….. 8. To be clear they have 2.7% of the mass shootings at school that we do.
Which does not count Pulse in Orlando, the Vegas Strip shooting, etc.
True. I have not heard of any of these people who supposedly always carry a gun take down a shooter. I have heard of people fatally shooting others over neighbour disputes because "I fElT tHrEaTeNeD" when only one person had a gun on them. That incident over a birthday party still disturbs me.
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And hundreds more will occur if they don't tighten their gun laws. First step make any automatic and semi automatic guns illegal, second have a gun buy back program, thirdly have laws where you can't carry weapons on you and have to be locked up. Have tougher screening rules on who can own a weapon and lastly have better healthcare so people can access mental health services easier. That's just the start. It can be and has been done. No excuses.
Some idiots are downvoting you for talking sense about guns, I have given you an upvote.
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I saw a video recently of a, I think it was a 13 year old, who went undercover. He tried and failed to buy lottery tickets, scratchcards, cigarettes, and booze, then he tried to buy a rifle and succeeded. Shows the state of things when kids can't buy a scratchcard but can buy a lethal weapon.
This bears repeating. More CHILDREN have been shot in the US this year than f*****g police officers! Disgusting!
Load More Replies... Saw Andy Murray on TV (the tennis guy) He survived Scotland's only mass shooting, also only school shooting, when he was 8 years old (Dunblane) He said - how do they expect things to get better by constantly doing the same thing again - ie more guns. He also commented on how strange 'active shooter drills' were and how weird it was that they are normalised..
There have been more gun deaths in American schools in the last 16 years than there have been in European schools since 1903. (Europe has more than double the population.) 'Guns don't kill people. People kill people.' Yes, but it's a great deal easier to kill people if you have easy access to guns.
Our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has just put forth a bill that will put an end to anymore handguns in Canada. No sale, transfer, import. We already had a ban on assault type rifles after a mass shooting at a women's university a number of decades ago. The comedian, Eddie Izzard made a brilliant point years ago to the argument of "Guns don't kill people. People kill people" the bracket on this is mine. He said "Well, that's very true. But if you have a gun (assault rifle) in your hands, it helps". Gun nuts think it's OK to have to basically turn schools into the equivalent of the Green Zone in Baghdad. Don't sell them. There is no need to form a controlled militia to defend the US. The British are not coming.
The British don’t have guns either so your gun toting idiots would be safe anyway
Load More Replies... I read yesterday that since 1999, over 310,000 children have been in schools whilst shootings were carried out - to say this is shocking is the understatement of the century!
Parts of the US are so deep into gun culture it’s basically part of their religion. In fact, I’m positive this would be the claim they make if any restrictions began to happen. It’s really difficult when the politicians in those areas are all pro-gun, too. That really only leaves federal intervention and they just keep kicking it back to the states to handle. I lived in one of these states once. I remember during a dental procedure, my dentist, who was also a high-up in the church, talked to the tech non-stop about this new Glock he just bought. Average folks would go shopping armed to the teeth for some ridiculous reason. Those open carry guns are legally required to be unloaded, but I don’t trust that for a second. Anyway, guns are so ingrained in these people’s lives that many are willing to kill to keep it that way. I think we should be more focused on purchase restrictions and ammo regulations. I believe that would drastically decrease the preventable deaths and shooting incidents
Wait what? I'm an American & I didn't know there's been that many. THATS HOW F*****G DESENSITIZED WE ARE BECOMING... I didn't even know this. This makes me f*****g sick. I was almost kidnapped in New Orleans as an adult woman & after that I'm like "I'm getting a gun" f**k this! I'm terrified! the very next day there was a shooting down the street where a child was struck & killed right in front of the hospital in Nola & I'm like "I understand why ppl want guns... but most of the ppl who have guns have never even needed them or been in a situation where they would help... meanwhile babies are literally dying all because oNe DaY ThEy MiGhT nEeD tO PrOtEcT ThEmSeLvEs!" I did not get a gun. I upgraded my security system. I never leave my house without my dog even to put the trash out & I carry a knife, a super bright flashlight that basically makes ppl puke if shined in their eyes & a really loud alarm. F**K guns.
Wikipedia has all of the stats on US and others mass shootings; the US schools shooting stats are the most heartbreaking. What can you do against a gun lobby with the clout of the NRA?
You nailed it, Paul. What can a regular citizen do against ineffectual, dishonest politicians who would rather line their pockets with special interest money, than work to create a country where school children aren't murdered in increasing numbers? Our "democracy" is broken, and I feel the worst is yet to come.
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United States — 288 Mexico — 8 South Africa — 6 India — 5 Nigeria & Pakistan — 4 Afghanistan — 3 Brazil, Canada, France — 2 Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, & Turkey — 1
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https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1529467101076934656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1529467101076934656%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fthe-onion-mass-shooting-article%2F
This is both sad af and also not at all surprising. They’re changing the doors to be lockable from the inside and kids have active shooter drills in schools, I couldn’t have imagined such a thing when I was a kid
Yep, sure, they make the door lockable on the inside... if it is all timed wrongly then the shooter can make very good use of that lock and keep anyone trying to stop them out. NOT the answer any more than active shooter drills that didn't save those children.
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My hearts go out to all the kids and their families for the recent Texas shooting.
At this point I just hope I'm not shot to death before I get out of school and then america
But dumdum needs their gun. Its there right and they will throw a toddler tantrum if they get taken away
I’m sad for my American neighbours. Kids have to learn active shooter drills. What a world…
If the 90% of Americans who want gun control laws went on strike, as in none of them go into work or school, it would cripple this country into making a sensible law. Until then, the minority will hold us hostage.
The United States is actually low per capita on gun homicides compared to the rest of the Americas. It is true, look it up.
We don't hear about mass shootings, Europe as a list of country's that shottings.
Remember, schools are a "gun free zone", so nuts and criminals know they have free rein.
guns are a tool, just like a lot of other tools it's the person using it that is the problem. Most folks die each year by illegal guns, They also are killed with knives, cars, fists, rocks, and being pushed off a high places, etc. stop blaming the tool. take away legal guns and what's left? a lot of criminals with illegal guns and victims just saying
Most gun deaths in the US is caused by legal guns. No one is saying to take guns away, just have better gun laws. A knife, fist or rock are not comparable to guns because you need close range meaning more time to get away. Same as being pushed off high places. Guns on the other hand can shoot from a distance and some guns can shoot multiple rounds within seconds. A car is also not the same coz where most of these mass shootings take place, a car can't access. You are more likely to be killed by your own gun than you would use it for self defence.
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In Asian cultures, whistling is said to bring back ghosts, but certain myths say that whistles will only bring back children. Everyone, if you can, whistle for every child who died from a bullet.
Pulse night club and the Las Vegas Concert shootings were not schools. Also, what is that next country? And what are their population and numbers of schools total compared to the US? hmmm statistics
You guys realize that we can debate this to the bitter end, but it's not going to solve anything. If you feel this strongly, do something. No matter which side of the issue you're on. Don't just b***h, fix it.
And if more people were armed, just a fraction, if any of them would have been killed.
So your solution to all the gun violence is to give more people guns. SMFH
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I don't think that's an accurate number... maybe just for this year I mean: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting
Maybe you should be a bit more honest about this statistic. "Mass shooting" is any shooting of three people or more, and can include shootings that occur NEAR or ON school grounds even if school is not in session. This statistic also takes into account gang violence, etc. Check out the database at https://www.theviolenceproject.org/mass-shooter-database/ for the most comprehensive database I have seen and you can filter by location, shooter info, guns legally purchased, etc.
Massaging the numbers doesn’t bring those people back from the dead, nor does it lower US gun deaths per capital versus other nations. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-us-gun-violence-world-comparison/
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I like how gun enthusiasts hide behind the second amendment when you know damn well what the intent was. Don’t twist it to your will. “Being necessary for the security of a free state”. It is no longer necessary. We have a national military now, along with national guards stationed in each state. And there is NO reason for military grade weapons to be for sale to the public. No justification, no situation would ever require that. As for other guns, stricter controls need to be in place. For crying out loud you need licenses to hunt or fish! Is a deer’s life is more important than a person’s? A child’s? As for the mental health - hey guess what? You can do two things at once. Shocking! Work on both problems at once. Guess that might be asking too much from our government.
Gun control will lead to control from our far left leaders. They have been trying for decades to take away guns. If you want to compare the 2nd to modern times you need to compare the 1st as well freedom of speech did not included computers, tv, radios, etc. but yet we fight to keep free speech on these platforms. The 2nd was to defend ourselves from a tyrannical government. The far left is working at taking all your rights away. Morning Joe show, 1 of many, has said more than once it is THEIR job to tell us how to think They are not even hiding it anymore.
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How is the relation to the number of people that live there? Don't get me wrong; I don't like the gun policy of the USA (or even the USA) but it's a huge country with many people. This is a factor to be think about. Anyhow I guess the difference between the USA and the other one would be less but still huge.
US gun deaths per capital far exceed those of first world nations. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-us-gun-violence-world-comparison/
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I recently saw an article saying there have been 13 mass school shootings since 1966 and higher numbers come from misinterpreting data: https://reason.com/2022/05/26/uvalde-texas-mass-shooting-statistics-gun-crimes-misleading/
Arbitrarily declaring that a school mass shooting needs to kill at least four people to “count” as a mass shooting doesn’t bring back from the dead the kids who were killed by guns at school in incidents that don’t fall within that criteria (like the mass shooting at my high school that “only” killed three people, including a 14-year-old). It also doesn’t change the fact that more kids are killed by guns in schools in the US than anywhere else. The libertarians at Reason can get bent.
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Im pretty sure someone is undercounting: mexico, Colombia, Russia, Sicily, Rawanda, the Palestinian Territories, pakistan, the Philippines, Tienamen Square . .
The post was specifically about mass *school* shootings, but if you’re curious about gun deaths in general, the US doesn’t look much better: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-deaths-by-country
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The problem isn't the gun, it's Americans. We've become a nation with no stability or safety nets at all, for anything. Americans are constantly stressed out and increasingly becoming isolated.
Then just maybe we shouldn’t make access to guns so f*****g easy.
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The problem is that if they were taken away, people would rant about communism
That's pretty much their go to rant for anything they disagree with, even if it makes zero sense. Brainwashed.
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Nathaniel was being sarcastic, Adam. He didn't really mean it.
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Many of the very same Hollywood elite who say we should outlaw guns are the same ones directing, producing, & acting in movies & shows that glorify gun violence. Many other nations don't have so much violence violence portrayed in their cinemas. If we got rid of guns, the violence would not get any less. Other tools will be used.
I live in the US. I have guns. No one is going to take my guns from me. HOWEVER, I don't think that it's just that there are guns available to these people. Think about it. 100 years ago there were (per capita) more guns available to people/kids, and they didn't go around shooting each other like people do now. Something is broken in our society. Somehow we have all become so angry and so butt hurt that we feel we need to go around shooting random people. I'm not going to argue that if the guns weren't there people couldn't shoot each other but at this point it would be ridiculous to believe they can be controlled. We need to figure out WHY we are shooting each other and fix THAT if we want this to come to an end quicker than trying to recall all the guns in the country - which will never be possible.
I love the fact that y'all are down voting me. Did you truly understand what I was trying to say, or are you going to simply blame the guns and not the.people that are holding the guns. Last time I looked, my guns didn't go out by themselves and shoot anyone...
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The countries you are comparing to America were ALMOST ALL conquered by Nazis or Communists. Then 100 MILLION people became lethally UNsafe and were butchered. Governments out of control have killed 1000 times more people in just this century alone than by all the criminals in the entire world since time began. Criminals can kill only one or a few at a time, but governments kill entire cities and even NATIONS, ocean liners full of people, entire schools and every child in the schools. It was governments, not gun owners, that firebombed Dresden in retaliation for the mass destruction of the entire city of Canterbury. It was governments that sank the Lusitania. Governments murder people by the thousands in each single strike. It's easy to do because they first disarm the population to make people "safe." There have been 288 mass shootings in schools since 2009, killing 169 people. Estimates (Wiki) of Defensive Gun Use to STOP crimes run between 55 thousand to 4.5 MILLION per year.
1) Enforce the gun laws on the books, many DAs and counties, even in tougher gun law states, don't follow through. 2) National database for criminal records and mental health. Period. No arguments, you folks at NRA. 3) Schools, the most common place for shootings, should never be unlocked from the outside without supervision. 4)More gun safety and education required to own a gun, just like you have to drive a car. 5.) Educate all Americans on the reason we have a second amendment. (No, not in case America is attacked, but so the federal government cannot enter a sovreign state and take property or lives by force. We are the only country in the world where the people can protect themselves from their own government 6) You put the genie back in the bottle. Guns are here to stay.Criminals will NOT give up their guns. 7) Address the causes of school and mass shootings, mental health, bullying, abuse, impulse control, etc. And know this, no matter what we do. Crazy people will find a way.
Number of people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2022, by race https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/ There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders. Here's Why You Rarely Hear of Them. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/09/22/there_are_far_more_defensive_gun_uses_than_murders_in_america_heres_why_you_rarely_hear_of_them_794461.html New FBI Report Shows Armed Citizens STOP Mass Shootings https://www.ammoland.com/2022/05/fbi-report-shows-armed-citizens-stop-mass-shootings/#axzz7UF8kCW2q Follow and see how to handle Evil - without feelings or politics... https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/active-killer-math
This is false, there have been more shootings but far less “mass” shootings. Statisticians even include shootings occurring outside school property during which a bullet passed into school property as a “school shooting”. People can manipulate statements to make it seem different than reality, we need to read between the lines and do our own research.
If a bullet is fired into school property, it IS a school shooting, no need for quotation marks. It is a significant event for a gun to be fired anywhere near a damn school, and you trying to somehow mitigate or downplay the numbers is a feeble attempt to dismiss the fact that we have a massive problem with gun violence in this country.
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Nice "traditions". KiLLiNg rANdom pEoPle iS paRt of OuR cULtuRe
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Kind of missing the point by nitpicking on details. Lets fix this for you. *Mass* school shootings (defined as 4 or more deaths) - Total deaths in United States = 281, all other democracies combined = 173. Closest runner up is Brazil & at 35 deaths. Considering that America has less than double Brazil's population, having eight times the deaths isn't a good thing.
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I feel like you're downplaying the role of guns in violent crimes, which directly affect the children in this country. Let me share this statistic: "The U.S. has had 2,032 school shootings since 1970 and these numbers are increasing. Alarmingly, 948 school shootings have taken place since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012". I think any sane person can agree that, no matter who is involved in the shooting, nor how many are shot in one incidence, gun violence is a horrific problem in this country. A problem which our government seems happy to allow to continue.
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34 percent of adults and 75 percent of children sleep with a stuffed animal or a blanket, or other sentimental object as their comfort object.
Statistics also play a huge role in political campaigns. We can predict the outcome of elections by using data about an area from past elections and by polling individuals during a campaign to see where they are leaning. Politicians running for office use this data to decide where to focus their energy as well. If a county has voted Republican in every presidential election for the past 20 years, they are likely to vote the same way in the future, regardless of how many rallies are held there.
Statistics have also been incredibly important to governments in combating the Covid-19 pandemic. Decisions about lockdowns, restrictions, mask mandates and vaccine requirements have all been made based on illness and death rates over time. It would have been very difficult for governments to determine a course of action in fighting Covid without proof of how it’s spreading and where.
Despite making up less than 4% of the population, Americans produce over 20% of the garbage in the world.
Less than 10% of Americans do not wear seatbelts and account for 51% of car related fatalities.
Wear your seatbelt. Ignore your friend who told you "My buddy's cousin would've died if he was wearing his seatbelt!"
48% of British people wouldn’t go to space even if their safety was guaranteed with the most popular reason being that they just simply didn’t have any interest in going
Statistics also benefit us when we’re doing our weekly grocery shop. Stores use the data they collect on what products are being purchased the most frequently to decide how much to order. This is particularly important for items that become more popular in specific seasons, such as sunscreen in the summer months and hot chocolate in the winter. And if you want to determine the best time to go grocery shopping to avoid crowds, the stats will tell you to go on Mondays and Tuesdays. Skip shopping on Saturdays and Sundays, especially between 11am-12pm, as shoppers spend an average of 7 more minutes in stores on weekends due to crowds.
Dragonflies have a 95% hunt success rate. Making them the most effective hunters in the world.
93% of people don't check facts they read on the internet.
Statistics can also be exciting when learning about topics we’re passionate about, like sports. Data analytics have become extremely important in the world of professional sports for team strategies and for the enjoyment of fans. It wasn’t until 2002, however, that sports analytics really started to take off. The catalyst was Billy Beane, who was general manager of the Oakland Athletics at the time, using statistical analysis to curate a powerful team of lesser-known baseball players. After the Athletics almost won the World Series, Beane’s strategy, which came to be known as “Moneyball”, quickly became the norm for other teams as well and even inspired a 2011 film starring Brad Pitt.
Genghis Khan killed so many people that he cooled the earth by a bit.
Innocent people will admit to a crime they never committed 43% of the time.
According to a report from Research and Markets, the global sports analytics industry is expected to reach $3.4 billion by 2028. Part of the reason for this is the speed at which analytics technology has evolved. Companies like Genius Sports, for example, are able to “generate statistical breakdowns from video footage to help coaches optimize their play calling during games or generate post-game takeaways”. Cameras are also used by many companies to track player movement, ball speeds and more. But it’s not only the teams who benefit from this data. Fans use these statistics to create their fantasy league teams and place bets on who will win games.
20% of the mammal species on our planet are different types of bats.
There's about 5000 species of mammals, and about 1000 of them are varieties of our little winged buddies.
Brazil is the country that kills the most trans women per year.
Brazil is also the country where the porn category with the most viewers is the one with trans women.
No matter what your favorite sport is, I’m sure you can find a high-tech analytics company that’s pumping out fascinating data about your favorite athletes. For example, Trace in Austin, Texas, uses recording gear and an AI system to analyze film from soccer games, so coaches and players don’t have to. Players wear tracking devices that record their games, and an AI bot stitches together clips of all of the most important moments. Trace also notes performance metrics including minutes played, distance ran, top speed, max efforts, and stamina, and creates a heat map tracking where players spent most of their time during a game. Technology like this saves coaches time and helps them create more effective strategies for future games.
Survey of Fortune 500 executives found that 93% agree the golf reflects life.
86% admit to cheating at golf.
There are more privately owned guns than people in the U.S. (Washington Post June 19, 2018)
That belly button bacteria study was wild. 60 belly buttons sampled. 2368 different species of bacteria found. The study indicated that 1458 of them may be new to science. One had a rare bacteria found in Japanese soil and they had never been to Japan. Two had rare bacteria that thrived on ice caps and thermal vents. Not a single bacteria was common to all buttons.
Better yet there was an artist duo in Great Britain who made cheese from bellybutton bacteria! (And armpit bacteria, and ...)
When it comes to statistical analysis, there are 7 key types: descriptive, inferential, predictive, prescriptive, exploratory, causal and mechanistic. Each type serves a slightly different purpose, but they all help the world go round. Descriptive statistics, for example, deal with “organizing and summarizing data using numbers and graphs”. Using visual aids like graphs and tables is an efficient way to convey information because it's more palatable for the general population. These are often used in news articles to simplify complex data. As the name suggests, inferential statistics allow us to infer generalizations about data and “make conclusions with respect to future outcomes” by testing hypotheses. This method often uses the sampling theory, various tests of significance and statistical control.
The leading cause of death for ages 5 to 18 (correction 1 through 18) has recently switched from car crashes to gun violence in the US.
Your school age child is more likely to die from gun violence than any other cause, including car crashes. 21% gun violence, 20% car crashes.
(Edit: Seeing as rates of gun violence for 1 to 4 year olds is exceedingly low (accidental deaths are a different category), the picture for 5 to 18 year olds is likely higher than 21%)
70% of the german population believe that their ancestors during WW2 helped jewish escapees or didn't support/partake in the actions performed by the nazis.
There are more Panda Express restaurants than actual Pandas
Predictive analysis is also pretty self-explanatory, as it is used to make predictions about future events based on “current and past facts and figures". We rely on predictive analysis for weather forecasts, and many businesses including marketing companies, insurance companies, financial corporations and online service providers use predictive analysis to gain competitive advantages. Conversely, prescriptive analysis uses data to determine the best reaction to a situation. It relies on several techniques including simulation, graph analysis, algorithms, complex event processing and more.
Chopping wood for an hour results in a 48% increase in testosterone in men.
You have far more chances to die from a a coconut fall than by a shark attack
A full 6 percent of Americans reckon they could beat a grizzly bear in unarmed combat.
Edit: And before another bear arm joke, just fyi bears already don’t have arms. So removing bear arms doesn’t improve your chances. Technically, all four are legs, with the front two called forelegs.
Exploratory analysis is generally “the first step of the data analysis process that is conducted prior to any other statistical analysis techniques”. It is not the sole method for predicting or drawing conclusions, but it provides a preview of data and can give valuable insight. Causal analysis is used to understand the reason behind why events occur. For example, it can be used by businesses to trace what went wrong in a failed experiment or by IT companies to check the quality assurance of their software. Lastly, mechanistic analysis is the least common type and is used to “understand the definite changes that could make changes in other variables”. For example, it is used in biological sciences "when studying and inspecting how various parts of the virus are affected by making changes in medicine".
There are 1.9 popes per square mile in the Vatican City
Vatican City is 0.19 sq mi, so as per the fact stated above , there are supposed to be 0.361 popes, so random statistics doesn't mean to be true always.
The Birthday Paradox:
It only takes 23 people in the same room for there to be a 50% chance two of them share the same birthday.
Difference between a million and a billion. When put in perspective by units of time, one million seconds is 12 days, one billion seconds is 31 years.
I hope this list is showing you how interesting random statistics about our world can be. I'm thankful for all of the curious statisticians who did the work to figure out these facts and all of the Reddit users who were able to share them with us. Don't forget to upvote all of your favorites, and then let us know in the comments what the most interesting statistic you know is!
If you made $295,000 every single day since the birth of Christ, you still wouldn't be worth what Elon Musk is.
Edit: Let's put the same concept into seconds. If you were to do a conversion of dollars to seconds ($1 = 1 second), the median American gets 1 day and 10 hours (net worth of $121,760).
Elon musk would get 6,910 YEARS.
The human eye blinks about 4.2 million times a year on average
The job with the highest death rate historically in the US is President
Edit: I didn’t factor in lifetime appointments, so technically I was wrong if you count that
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Some of these stats felt really fake, and not just the ones that said things like “67% of statistics are made up on the spot” EDIT: now that I think about it, maybe that stat is true
im so over being a part of a world that now says unalived because the word dead is so....what? scary? offensive? wtf is wrong with people!!!
Whew! Rough day at work, today. I'm unalive tired.
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Statistically speaking, the miracles of coincidence are bound to happen. It is so certain that they will happen till we can say that the greatest miracle of all is when there is no coincidence ever happening at all.
Yes, it's often said that truth can be stranger than fiction. Events happen in real life that are so strange that if you used them in a fictional story people would say, "That could never happen!"
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CITE YOUR SOURCES!! These are interesting statements and I would love to look into them more and be able to use them in arguments, but I won't if I don't know where they came from
Some of these stats felt really fake, and not just the ones that said things like “67% of statistics are made up on the spot” EDIT: now that I think about it, maybe that stat is true
im so over being a part of a world that now says unalived because the word dead is so....what? scary? offensive? wtf is wrong with people!!!
Whew! Rough day at work, today. I'm unalive tired.
Load More Replies... Statistically speaking, the miracles of coincidence are bound to happen. It is so certain that they will happen till we can say that the greatest miracle of all is when there is no coincidence ever happening at all.
Yes, it's often said that truth can be stranger than fiction. Events happen in real life that are so strange that if you used them in a fictional story people would say, "That could never happen!"
Load More Replies... CITE YOUR SOURCES!! These are interesting statements and I would love to look into them more and be able to use them in arguments, but I won't if I don't know where they came from
