Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Call for list: Made-up statistics


1 in every 24 people can teleport using the power of their minds.

There's a greater biomass of aunts on the planet than there is of ants.

Two-thirds of Malaysia's cultivated land is dedicated to growing computers.



27 comments:

Calum Fisher said...

The number of worker bees in a given apiary is always equal to the number of hairs on the beekeeper's testicles. (Margin for error: 6) (No figures available for female keepers of bees).

XXXX YYYY said...

Nine out of ten women prefer calcium to arsenic to fight osteoporosis.

Blond men are at greater risk of spontaneous combustion than brunette men.

John Bush said...

On average, the left mouse button is pressed 43 times more than the right and the left shift button on a PC keyboard is pressed approximately 56 times more than the right shift button.

Matt F said...

At any one time, across the world, you could fit the total number of people Doing the Funky Gibbon into London's Albert Hall.

Ian Bennett said...

The 2012 London Olympics will cost £2.35 billion.

Matt F said...

3 percent of all frozen peas sold in the UK are actually unripe blackcurrants.

Peter S said...

26.32% of German tourists to London think that the National Gallery is on the south side of Trafalgar Square.

Hector V. Achilles said...

42.7% of statistics are made up on the spot.

John Bush said...

Over 98% of lists about statistics *have* to have a list item about statistics.

Peter Sealy said...

28% of lies are damn lies, and 47% are statistics.

Chris G said...

1% of these are actually sheep droppings

Dave Morgan said...

The total number of sheep in Cornwall divided by the combined mass of all their fleeces always gives the golden ratio.

Steph Rana said...

The number of buns to bones at every possible place in the world is at a perfect disequilibrium.
:-P

xandra m said...

There are currently 717 Homer Simpson look-alikes scattered throughout the world.

Jonathan Phillips said...

If you count all the sheep legs in a field and divide by 4, you'll get an approximate number of sheep in a field. Science fact.

Jonathan Phillips said...

1 in 6 people, or 2 of the people who've already annotated this list, are Chinese. I think it's me n moomin

k_sra sra said...

Moominply is ten times more likely to post something political then calumerio. Who is ten times more likely to post something political than mariebalto. Who is ten times more likely to post something political than I am.

TARA W said...

You have better odds of being bitten by a rusty staple remover than winning a scratch-n-win lottery ticket.

XXXX YYYY said...

.007% of all steel pizza pans in the US will burn in the shape of the Virgin Mary

XXXX YYYY said...

65% of all cephalops worldwide have never set foot in a church.

XXXX YYYY said...

Out of the 120% effort we all give in our workplace, 110% will go unnoticed.

XXXX YYYY said...

In the event of a greater % of sheeps' legs to living sheep, poll must be taken of the ratio of other legs to living wolves in the field.

Andrew C said...

Your are 16 times more likely to be reading this, than not.

Matt F said...

Ha! Forty percen all commens rubbery!

Paul ◘ said...

Chance favors the prepared mind.

You've a better-than-even chance of having read this in its entirety.

There was a statistically insignificant chance that you will have become a statistic before reading this.

Statistics, like fashion, are irreducibly someone else's problem.

Tom Kimber said...

Five.

charl * said...

42