Put one of your favorite statistics in the subject line

[Still a Democrat]

of your response to this thread. Should make some interesting reading.

[Still a Democrat]

1. Two of three seniors get over 50% of their income from Social Security

n/t

[Morning Dew]

2. “Ninety percent of everything is crud”

Theodore Sturgeon

[HopeHoops]

4. Ans the other ten percent turns to crud shortly afterward.

[HopeHoops]

3. 73.9% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

:evilgrin:

[Statistical]

6. +1. I was going to post a variant of that but you beat me to it. +1 to you.

[dipsydoodle]

5. The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph

:shrug: So fucking what ?

[rucky]

7. The US defense budget is larger than the next 50 countries combined.

http://milexdata.sipri.org/

[Statistical]

8. There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who know binary and those who don't.

[HopeHoops]

10. 01011110 00110101

Most of whom also know ASCII.

[hobbit709]

16. Unless you know Octal, Hexadecimal or even Trinary..

[Statistical]

18. Yeah most people don't realize that. Good catch.

The phrase "all number systems are base 10 systems" confuses some people.

binary is base 10 (written in binary)
decimal is base 10 (written in decimal)
octal is base 10 (written in octal)
hexadecimal is base 10 (written in hexadecimal)

:)

[Toucano]

9. Chances an American adult agrees that “it seems possible” that the Holocaust never occurred:1 in 5

http://harpers.org/index/?q=Holocaust

This little statistic justifies my throwing out 20% of responses to any poll.

[w8liftinglady]

11. U.S. imports from China increased 187 % from 2001-2006

http://www.esa.doc.gov/03042010.pdf

[meegbear]

12. 100% of the proceeds from the 'meegbear Poverty Relief Fund' all go to meegbear

No overhead costs whatsoever - and always accepting donations ('tis the season.)

[Myrina]

13. 24% - the number of women between ages 39 and 44 who own their own home.

Of which I am one. :bounce:

[w8liftinglady]

14. From January 2007 through December 2009, 6.9 million workers were displaced

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/disp.toc.htm

[MineralMan]

15. 50% of all Republicans are below average in intelligence.

[w8liftinglady]

20. LOL!-oh,wait-those are my neighbors!

[SharonAnn]

27. No, they are below the Republican Average. 90% are below the Democratic Average

in intelligence.

Just sayin'>

The Republicans I know aren't nearly as smart as they think they are.

But then, as one of my acquaintances said to me, "Of course, you'd think that. You're a Mensa member."

However, I do know some Mensa members who are hard core GOP conservatives. Guess they just shut their brains off.

[walldude]

17. The actual unemployment rate is between 17 and 22%.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

19. $350B a year interest payment by U.S.

[TlalocW]

21. I'm always 100% right

No matter what. Deal with it. :)

TlalocW

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. I'm 50% right 50% of the time. What's that come to?

:D

[Nye Bevan]

22. ALL generalizations are false. (nt)

[w8liftinglady]

23. Texas non-manufacturing vs. manufacturing exports- 2:1

http://www.census.gov/mcd/exports/


We lead on something else!!!

[Paulie]

24. 50% of people in the U.S. Live within 50 miles of where they grew up.

[KansasVoter]

26. 100% of people will die sometime in their life

[Pathwalker]

28. Economists have predicted 9 of the last 5 recessions.

Paul Krugman said that.

[uppityperson]

29. Lies, damned lies, and statistics. eom

[NoGOPZone]

30. "People can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that.”

From the mind of Homer Simpson

[slackmaster]

31. There's a place just six feet underground where you go when you die

FACT!

[Taverner]

32. 50% of all Americans are below average in intelligence

[PBS Poll-435]

33. ...

Edited because someone beat me to it!


:D

[dmallind]

34. China holds < 6% of US debt

[Still a Democrat]

35. Interesting n/t