What is the most interesting statistic that you know?
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KSU FOOTBALL
ANSWERS: 40
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That 87.12 % of statistics are made up.
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The common family consists of 2.3 children.
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One in 300 people in the US is unemployed! And I suspect it will get much worse! Do you see bread lines and police harrassment of the homeless! Or Bernanke offering 120 Billion to Bear Sterns when their CEO received a 68 million separation bonus and groused about not getting over 100 million! Why would they pay this guy any amount to leave when they were going under? And then on top of that get billions from the federal reserve bank! None of it makes one iota of sense unless your on the receiving end of it all!
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The Ford Model T got up to 28mpg and could run on gasoline and ethanol. What progress have we made since then?
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Approximately 8 thousand survivors of the World Trade Center disaster.
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60% of all people are 80% likely to think that they are 100% correct
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100% of people alive today were born... also 100% of people alive today are alive and not dead..
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Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years.
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1 in 50 children in the U.S. are abused or neglected. I heard this on the news the other night and I was shocked.
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Women age 18 or older represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (30%) than boys age 17 or younger (23%) Don't know if that's immature or what, ha.
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8 out of 10 cat owners said their cat prefer it (Whiskers advert).
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20,000 people starve to death every single day. You can help fight world hunger by simply clicking on this site: http://www.thehungersite.com/
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More than 1 in 100 Americans are in prison today.
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That there are only 10 types of people in the world - Those that understand binary numbers, and those that don't. Hahahaha! :-)
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1 in 2 American women get cancer. 1 in 6 people get cancer.
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You have more chance of being hit by lightning that winning the jackpot in the Uk national lottery... just think how many times you'd have to get zapped to win the euromillions...
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the earth is bombarded by dust particles everyday and is getting heavier by the day thats a worry
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That there are probably at least 100 stars for every grain of sand on the planet Earth. (Lots of room for error, but estimates run from 10-1,000 or more stars to grains of sand.)
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95% of stats are made on spot.
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house flies take off backwards
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about 40 % of all statistics are inaccurate ot not real.
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One person gets knocked down on british roads every 30 seconds - and he is getting thoroughly fed up with it!
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That as the number of pirates decrease, the average annual global tempature increses.
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There are not hard statistics on why humans, or any living creature for that matter, NEEDS to sleep. Their are scientific guesses and plenty of research, but no true scientific explanation. Strange but true.
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87% of all statistics are made up
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They rate way above lies and damned lies !!!!!
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Sharks only attack you when you're wet.
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The one I find most true is ... 95% of all statistics are made up ... Well maybe thats 96% now ....
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The average human has one mammary gland and one testicle
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The average man in Alabama has fewer than two arms.
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The average man in Alabama has fewer than two arms.
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as many people die from lightning as deer attacks a year in the united states (150)
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5 out of 4 people don't understand statistics.
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Statistically, common sense is extremely uncommon.
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(the only statistic that is 100% true 100% of the time)statistically so, if your parents do not have children you will not either.
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Dr. Phil said 70 percent of all 3rd marriages end in divorce.
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4/3 of all college graduates are bad at fractions.
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70% of all statistics are false 30% of the time. The other 70% is true 92% of the time, while most believe 45% of all 70% of the statistics are 50% correct 36.5% of the time. . And that 0-100% of all people don't understand how to interpret statistics.
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Age most people stop believing in politicians : 7
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You are 3 times as likely to be killed by an asteroid from outer space than in a plane crash. I'm not making this up. Some astronomer did the calculations.
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