Curious statistics. Interesting facts from statistics

2. About 710 fires occur in Russia every day, in which about 40 people die.

3. In 1977, only 8 percent of American physicists were women.

4. The most popular in the world woman's name- Anna. Almost 100 million women wear it.

6. The most popular name in the world is Muhammad.

7. The millionth resident of Moscow was born in 1897.

8. Almost 2/3 of the world's gold is mined in South Africa.

9. Older people are the most in Sweden (24%) and the least in Kuwait (2%).

10. There are more than 300,000 people in Sweden with the last name Carlson (or Karlsson).

11. Of the 5 million Finns, 2.15 million (43%) regularly use the Internet.

12. Every second American student expects to become a millionaire by the age of 40.

14. To wallpaper the Great Chinese Wall about 15,840,000 rolls of wallpaper will be required.

15. The two highest IQs ever recorded on Earth belong to women.

16. In Japan, 93 percent of the corpses are cremated, in England - 67, and in America - only 12 percent.

17. Nearly 70 percent of women in the world masturbate occasionally or constantly.

18. The average age of Internet users in the world is 33 years.

19. Only 15% of the Dutch know the words to the national anthem of the Netherlands.

20. There are more Catholics in the world than all other Christians combined.

21. Most a large number of There are 152,792 post offices in the world in India (for comparison, in the USA there are just over 38,000).

22. In Russia, a person who is 20 years old, but not 21, will say that he is 20 years old, and in America and Europe - that he is 21 years old.

23. In 1950, the average life expectancy in China was 35 years, by 2000 this figure was close to 70.

24. At the beginning of the second millennium (1000) the population of the Earth was 400 million people; by the end of it (1999) - already 6 billion.

25. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 360 big cities(with a population of over 100 thousand people), in which only 5% of the total population lived. At the end of the 80s. there were already 2.5 thousand such cities, and their share in the world population exceeded 33%.

26. In the Middle Ages, people extracted from earth's crust only 18 chemical elements and their compounds, in the 17th century - 25, in the 18th century. - 29, in the XIX century. - 47, at the beginning of the 20th century - 54, in the second half - more than 80 elements.

27. Average salary in countries former USSR as of May 2000: Russia - $73, Ukraine - $39, Belarus - $67, Uzbekistan - $49, Azerbaijan - $46, Armenia - $37, Moldova - $33, Kyrgyzstan - $22, Tajikistan - $8.9.

28. India consumes 1.5 kg of paper per capita per year, Afghanistan and Mali - 100 g. For comparison average around the world is 45 kg, and in Finland it reaches 1400 kg.

29. 10 percent of men and 8 percent of women on Earth are left-handed.

30. The most common name and surname in Italy is Mario Rossi.

32. 53 percent of American philatelists are ... women.

33. Blondes (and blondes) have an average of 150,000 hairs on their heads; on the head of brunettes (and brunettes) - 100 thousand each.

34. Residents of large cities spend about 6 months of their lives waiting for the green light of traffic lights.

35. English statisticians calculated that average person walks 100,000 kilometers in a lifetime.

36. The average Japanese sits in front of the TV 9 hours a day - more than the representative of any other nation.

37. In America, approximately 2,383,000 people have the surname Smith.

38. In China more people speak English than in the US.

39. Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star.

40. Only one person in 2 billion lives longer than 116 years.

41. According to the US Department of the Treasury, over 10 billion (!) 1 cent coins were minted in 1998. Exact amount issued coins are as follows: 1 cent - 10,257,400,000 pieces; 5 cents - 1,323,672,000; 10 cents - 2,335,300,000; 25 cents - 1,867,400,000; 50 cents - 30,710,000.

42. The longest paid holidays in Europe are Italians and Finns - 9 weeks each. This is followed by Germans (8 weeks), Austrians, Spaniards and Portuguese (36 days each), Swedes, Danes, French and British (34 days each). For comparison, in the US, the average paid vacation is 5 weeks.

43. According to a Gallup survey, 64% of Hong Kong residents show no interest in religion; in the Czech Republic, the number of non-believers reaches 55% of the population; in South Korea - 46%. Overall, however, non-believers make up only 13% of the world's inhabitants. The inhabitants are the most religious West Africa(99%). Interestingly, although 87% of respondents say they believe in God, only 32% said they attended church or other places of worship.

44. The main concerns of residents of the EU countries: Nuclear war - 49%, climate disasters - 43%, environmental pollution - 36%, accidents at nuclear reactors- 35%, human cloning - 28%, the danger of leakage of deadly bacteria from gene laboratories - 26%, the disappearance of forests - 20%, the disappearance of animal and plant species - 17%, the depletion of oil reserves - 7%, excess information - 5%, falling meteorites - 3%, alien invasion - 1%.

45. The second place in the world in terms of prevalence among cutlery is occupied by ... chopsticks.

46. ​​In the United States, there are on average two credit cards and 2 radios.

47. According to the UN, 250 thousand newborns appear on earth every day, three every second.

48. Every year, approximately 250,000 married Americans are beaten by their wives.

49. On average, 3 gender reassignment surgeries are performed every day in America.

50. The world consumes about 4.5 billion (!) Liters of gasoline per day.

51. In 1900, there were 8,000 cars in the US; in 1919 - already 6 million.

52. When typing on a computer, 56% of the work is done with the left hand.

53. In the course of a mass survey of secretaries conducted by American social psychologists, 92% of respondents said they "would like to have an affair" with their boss.

54. The lowest death rate in the world in 1998 belonged to the Asian state of Qatar - 1.6 per 1,000 inhabitants.

55. Time spent by residents of different countries watching TV per day: Germany - 182 minutes, France - 185, England - 212, Russia - 224, USA - 238, Mexico - 239, Japan - 240.

56. The average American uses 56 liters of water to take a shower. At the same time, he spends an average of 10.4 minutes, and the water temperature is about 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

57. More than 90 million people in China have the surname Li.

58. 4 out of 5 centenarians who lived to be 100 years old are women.

59. Every second over 200 lightnings sparkle on Earth.

60. There are more than 100,000 families in Moscow named after the Ivanovs.

What time of day does most of the world's population sleep?

A person is in a state of sleep for a smaller part of the day. It can be assumed that at any moment the majority of the world's population is awake, but due to the uneven distribution of people across time zones, this is not the case. 5 hours a day - approximately from 20:00 to 01:00 UTC - most earthlings sleep. The peak with a value of about 57.5% of sleepers falls at 22:00 UTC, which corresponds to one in the morning Moscow time.

What is the wisdom of the crowd?

At a 1906 country fair in Plymouth, 800 people entered a contest to guess the weight of a killed and skinned bull. The most different numbers, and after the fair, statistician Francis Galton calculated the median of all options and got 547 kg, while the actual weight was 543 kg, that is, the collective error was less than 1%. Such accuracy in estimating the parameters or the number of any objects has been observed more than once in experiments in different countries, and the phenomenon was given the name "wisdom of the crowd."

What is the survivor bias?

In statistics, there is the concept of survivor bias, when researchers look for commonalities among "survivors" without paying due attention to information about the "dead". A classic example serves as the task of finding a place to strengthen the armor of British bombers, set before the mathematician Abraham Wald during the Second World War. The planes that returned to the base had holes mainly on the wings and tail, but Wald reasoned that the cockpit and fuel tank needed to be strengthened, because bombers with shells that got there did not return. The same principle applies to literature with the secrets of entrepreneurial success - blindly following the advice given in them does not mean repeating success, it is more useful to analyze the mistakes of failed companies.

Why are more boys born after large and protracted military conflicts than usual?

The “returned soldier phenomenon” is a surge in the birth rate of boys after major and protracted military conflicts. This effect has been statistically confirmed in large samples of participants in both world wars, but the generally accepted scientific explanation he doesn't. One of the hypotheses connects the phenomenon with the growth of soldiers. Using the example of the British who fought in the First World War, it is shown that soldiers returning from the front are on average 3 cm taller than those who died. In turn, tall parents have a higher probability of having a boy, so the better survival rate of tall fathers explains the gender shift described above.

Which chess pieces, with the exception of kings, have greatest chance for survival?

An analysis of more than two million chess games played in masters tournaments revealed that the extreme pawns h2 and h7 have the greatest chance of surviving after kings - they remain on the field in more than 70% of games. They are followed by 8 more pawns of the a, b, f and g lines in the survival rating. And only behind them in this list are the pieces - four rooks.

What was the job of the woman who won 4 jackpots of several million dollars each?

Joan Ginter is considered the luckiest lottery player in the world. In 1993, she won a jackpot of $5.4 million, in 2003 - $2 million, in 2005 - $3 million, and finally in 2008 - $10 million. Journalists found out some details of Ginter's biography: firstly, she was a professor of mathematics with a specialization in statistics at Stanford University; secondly, the last three wins happened after buying tickets for an instant lottery with an erasable layer in the same shop in the Texas town of Bishop. Ginter spent her childhood in this city, but she has long since moved to Las Vegas, which is a day's drive away. Based on this information, it can be assumed that Ginter somehow calculated the algorithm for distributing winning tickets, but this cannot be proven.

Incredible Facts

Do you know what average life expectancy Was in Ancient Egypt, in which city, and is there a month without full moon?

We invite you to learn about this and much more in our collection. interesting facts from all over the world.

1) Butterflies in the stomach seeing or thinking about a loved one is actually the result of a stress response caused by adrenaline. A similar state of excitement can also be experienced with any other stressful situations, for example, before exams, an important meeting, going on stage, and so on.

2) Bags that cannot be bought at a discount. Every year the company Louis Vuitton burns all his unsold bags. Why does the company's management think that it is better to burn them than to discount them? It believes that in this way the value of their bags will never fall.

3) In the UK in police cars you can find teddy bear, to calm children after accidents. Also, in cars that go to the scene of accidents, in addition to a first-aid kit and a fire extinguisher, blankets, towels, a shovel, a broom, road spikes and some special appliances.

4) moonwalk appeared at least 50 years before birth michael jackson However, it is thanks to him that he became so popular. Before the singer, this dance technique was performed by clowns, tap dancers, film artists, and so on.

Before Jackson, a no less famous performer "dabbled" with the moonwalk David Bowie back in the 1960s, although his performance style was somewhat different.

5) Word Canada ( Kanata) is of Indian origin and means "Big Village". The names of some other countries in local dialects may also surprise you. For example, Kyrgyzstan "Land of the Four Tribes", Luxembourg - "small castle" , Madagascar - "end of the world", Sri Lanka - "beautiful land", Thailand - "land of the free", Zimbabwe - "stone houses", Cyprus - "copper", Guinea - "women".

6) In order not to cry while peeling onions, you have to chew gum. There are a myriad of ways to avoid tears in the kitchen, including goggles, wetting a knife with water, or freezing onions before chopping.

7) You can't sneeze with your eyes open. During a sneeze, a special "sneeze center" in the brain sends motor impulses along the nerves that control the muscles of the abdomen, chest, diaphragm, neck, face, eyelids and various sphincters, as well as the glands that produce mucus, the blood vessels of the nose. All this happens automatically.

8) Money is not actually made from pure paper, but with the addition of cotton and synthetic fibers. This helps to improve their strength while maintaining ease of handling. Not all countries use these materials for production" paper money". For example, in Romania, banknotes are made of special plastic and are not easy to break.

9) Most of dust particles in our apartment consists of dead skin flakes of its inhabitants. We leave dust literally everywhere.

10) In Sweden until September 3, 1967 it was right-hand traffic . On the day H at 5 am everyone vehicles had to change sides of the road, switching to left-hand traffic. Following these changes, the world of road transport saw a significant reduction in accidents during the first few months, since drivers were likely to drive more carefully to get used to the innovation. The center of Stockholm that day looked like this:

11) In Los Angeles more cars than residents. In this large Californian metropolis, people seem to have stopped walking, so many residents have several cars. Traffic jams are common in this city.

1) February 1865 is the only recorded month when there was no full moon. As you know, there is one full moon per month, since the Moon revolves around the Earth in 27.32 days, but in rare cases there may be two - at the beginning calendar month and at the very end. This full moon is called Blue Moon, and it happens about once every 2.7 years. In 2012 there were two blue moons- August 2 and 31, and the next one is expected on July 2, 2015.

2) A day on Venus lasts longer than a year. This is due to the fact that our neighbor Venus rotates around its axis more slowly than it has time to do. full turn around the sun.

3) In space astronauts can't cry, because due to the lack of gravity, tears cannot flow down the cheeks. However, in space it is impossible to do many other things that we are used to while on Earth.

4) Footprints left on the moon by American astronauts remain on its surface for millions of years until some meteorite falls on them. This is not surprising, because there are no winds on the Moon and no precipitation to blow away or wash them away.

Interesting statistics: interesting facts in numbers

1) Average people laugh about 15 times a day. If you laugh naturally, it will help you relax, calm your nerves, and improve your overall well-being. That is why laughter is very useful.

2) Cats and dogs consume food 7 billion dollars a year. Modern food industry does not particularly favor our pets with good products. Although giving food is much more convenient than preparing food, consider whether to feed your cats and dogs with anything you don't know. Most feeds do not carry any nutritional value , and animal fats are replaced in them by vegetable ones.

3) Throughout your life you use just over 27 tons of food, this is the weight of only 6 elephants. If you doubt this, just calculate how many foods you eat per day, and then multiply the number of days of average life expectancy. Maybe for someone these numbers will be much higher.

4) If you lick a stamp, you spend one tenth of a calorie. This is how much energy our body spends to do this work.

5) Fingernails grow approximately 4 times faster than on your feet.

6) To cook a portion of pasta, it takes an average of about 2 liters of water, and to wash the pan after them - 4 liters.

7) Lightning strikes our planet about 6 thousand times every minute.

8) More people die every year in the world through the fault of donkeys than in plane crashes. Airplanes are actually one of the safest modes of transport, as they are much less likely to get into accidents than the same cars or other types of ground transportation.

9) Only 1 out of 2 billion people can live to see 116 years and over. Despite the fact that today there are not so many centenarians among us, by the standards of ancient people, we are all centenarians. Modern medicine works wonders, prolonging the life of people suffering from even the most serious and incurable diseases.

10) 40 percent owners dogs and cats carry pictures of their pets in their wallets. Even more sleep with them in the same bed and eat from the same plate, despite the warnings of experts that pets carry dangerous diseases.

11) Reusing one glass bottle saves enough energy to watch TV within 3 hours.

12) Studies have shown that if a cat falls from the 7th floor, she 30 percent less chance survive than a cat that fell from the 12th floor. Probably, flying the first 8 floors, she understands what is happening to her, relaxes and can correct her position.

13) The average person sees over 1460 dreams annually. We simply do not remember most of our dreams, so we believe that we do not dream anything.

14) The number of chickens currently living on the planet, roughly equals the number of people living.

15) Most Popular male name in the world - Muhammad(in honor of the Prophet Muhammad), and the most popular female name is Anna.

16) The average person blinks 20 million times a year.

17) Human scent 20 times weaker than the scent of a dog.

18) You are more likely to be stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.

19) Under equal conditions, hot water turn to ice faster than cold. It has to do with evaporation. Hot water loses mass, so it will take less time to freeze it.

20) Statistically you more likely You will die from being hit by a champagne cork than from a spider bite.

1) Cats do not meow at all to communicate with each other, but only to communicate with a person. Cat kidneys work so efficiently that they are able to process even sea water, filtering salt. There are 32 muscles in a cat's ear.

2) Giraffe can live without water longer than a camel. He also knows how to clean his ears with his long tongue, the average length of which is 50 centimeters. Giraffes also lack vocal cords.

3) Birds gravity is needed to swallow, so if they are launched into space, they will starve to death in zero gravity.

4) Goldfish have a long memory no more than 3 seconds. Jellyfish are 95 percent water. The shark is the only fish that can blink both eyes at the same time, and also feels blood dissolved in water in proportions - 1 part of blood per 100 million parts of water.

5) The tallest tree on the planet - sequoia Hyperion, which grows in national park "Redwood", California. Its exact location is kept secret and known to only a few scientists. The tree reaches a height of 115.61 meters.

6) Representatives of the species nine-banded armadillos are of particular interest to science, since they produce mainly 4 cubs of the same sex who are identical twins. These mammals are one of the few other than rats and related to man primates who can get leprosy.

7) Newborn thrushes eat at first up to 4.5 meters of worms in a day.

8) When the bats fly out of their cave to hunt, they always turn left.

9) Camel milk never curdles. To protect their eyes from sandstorms, camels have three whole centuries, and they also learned to cover their nostrils so that sand does not get into them.

10) Dolphins sleep with one eye open. They may also turn off one part of the brain during sleep when the other part is awake and can observe what is happening around.

11) Emu and Kangaroo unable to move backwards for this reason they appeared on the coat of arms of Australia, and not at all because they are found only on this continent.

12) At the bees hair growing in front of your eyes and mosquitoes have teeth.

13) Over the past 4 thousand years, not a single new animal was not domesticated. The first animal that began to live next to a man was a dog, and the last to domesticate guinea pigs and mice.

14) In Tokyo you can buy dog wigs. However, dog accessories " human origin You can already get it anywhere or order it online.

15) To lobster reached a weight of 0.5 kilograms, it takes 7 years. They cannot be bred in captivity, so this species of crustacean is currently in danger of extinction.

16) Most cows give more milk if during milking they put on nice music.

17) About a thousand birds dies every year from what hits the glass of houses. This happens for a number of reasons, but mainly due to the fact that in the glass she "recognizes" the opponent and tries to attack him.

18) Reindeer love bananas. By the way, mosquitoes also love the smell of bananas. Studies have shown that mosquitoes harass people who have recently eaten these fruits.

19) Some tapeworms start eating themselves if there is no food nearby.

Some ciliary worms capable of adverse conditions environment break into pieces. These pieces are then recombined if conditions get better. Biologists call this phenomenon "self-healing".

If such a worm is deliberately divided into parts, each part has good conditions grow up missing organs, and they turn into separate healthy individuals!

20) The elephant is the only animal that can't jump. However, they have a large number of talents for example, some of them can draw and others can even talk!

21) Green grasshoppers can hear with holes in their hind legs.

22) The penguin is the only bird in the world that can swim, but can't fly. Other flightless birds, including ostriches, ... cannot swim.

23) The location of the eyes of the donkey does not allow the animal see your 4 legs at the same time.

24) The starfish is the only animal that can turn your stomach inside out.

25) Cafe2Go in Dubai has started making lattes and cappuccinos using camel milk – important product nutrition of the Bedouins, the inhabitants of the deserts. Products containing camel milk began to be called Camellos (it. camel).

Desert dwellers have been eating camel milk since ancient times, but for some time this product was no longer favored. Today it looks like it's coming back.

1) A nation without old people: About 3,000 years ago, most Egyptians did not live to be 30 years old. The Egyptians also had strange habits For example, instead of pillows, they put stones under their heads. The Egyptians invented the contraceptive, which was made from crocodile skin as early as 2000 BC.

2) According to British law in force in 1845 attempted suicide was considered a crime punished death penalty . If a suicide, for example, could not kill himself in suicide attempts, the official authorities helped him in this by hanging.

3) In Germany, close to nursing homes there are fake bus stops. Signs about the movement of regular transport are installed in these places in order to make it easier to find older people who are suddenly about to leave the institution and go home.

We have already been waiting for 2 hours… maybe we should have taken a taxi?

4) According to the channel national geographic , redheads will be gone by 2060. There are many known in history famous people with red hair, including William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus and Queen Elizabeth.

5) In Mexico there is dying ancient language , which only 2 people know, but they do not talk to each other.

On the tongue ayapaneco the ancient inhabitants of modern Mexico spoke during long centuries. He survived the Spanish invasion, numerous warriors, revolutions, famines and floods. But today, like many other Aboriginal languages, it has practically disappeared.

Manuel Segovia thinks what to speak mother tongue he is no longer with anyone

There are only 2 people left who can speak it. Manuel Segovia(77 years old) and Isidro Velazquiz(69 years old) live just 500 meters apart in the village of Ayapa in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco. These two people avoid each other and do not want to communicate.

6) Most an old man in the world turned out to be fake.

In 2010, when the Tokyo authorities decided to congratulate the oldest person on the planet, who turned 111 years old, they found instead of the old man skeleton of a 30 year old man. Tricky family for many years received a pension for him, although in fact he was no longer alive.

7) 12 newborns per day go to the wrong parents. A newborn is born without kneecaps. These organs develop later, 2-6 years after birth.

8) Heartbeat in women faster than men. On average, the human heart makes 100,000 beats per day.

9) Human teeth as hard as stones and the femur is harder than concrete. A quarter of all the bones in our body are located in the feet. Our

14) Goethe couldn't stand barking dogs. He could only write if there was a rotten apple in his desk.

15) Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. He was also credited with the invention of the searchlight, the tank, and even the bicycle.

16) Michael Jordan earns in Nike in year more money than all the workers in the company's factories in Malaysia combined.

17) Sigmund Freud had an unhealthy fear of ferns.

18) Microwave Inventor Percy Spencer invented this miracle of technology when he noticed that while working with a powerful electric lamp, the chocolate in his pocket melted very quickly. One of the first microwaves looked like this (1940s):

19) The Ramses condom brand was named after Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, who, however, apparently did not use condoms or any other means of contraception, so he had neither more nor less, but 160 children.

20) Inventor of the light bulb Thomas Edison afraid of the dark.

Even if you don’t like arithmetic and you don’t like numbers, you will definitely be impressed by the facts and patterns that Charles Whelan, the author of the fascinating novelty Naked Statistics, talks about - a man who hates calculations, dislikes mathematics and is not enthusiastic about formulas that do not have practical application. Unlike statistics, which have the most direct relation to real life. Why? Now you will find out for yourself.

1. Stupid lottery

Buying an instant lottery ticket is absolute nonsense. This is one of the most important lessons in probability theory. Good decisions - when judged by the probabilities that lie behind them - may not actually be so good. By the time you spend as much as $1 million on lottery tickets that cost just $1, your winnings will be very close to $560,000.

This is explained by the law big numbers. However, as well as the fact that casinos always win in the long run. The probabilities associated with all games played in the casino favor the latter (assuming the casino is able to prevent blackjack players from calculating cards).

Thus, buying a lottery ticket is an absolutely mediocre way to spend $1.

2. How to catch scammers

In certain cases, the concept of probability can even be used to catch scammers. Caveon Test Security specializes in so-called data forensics, which reveal patterns that suggest fraud. For example, this company will draw public attention to the results of exams in a particular educational institution if the number of identical incorrect answers found is extremely unlikely (usually we are talking about a picture that develops less than once in a million).

In doing so, it is guided by the following mathematical logic: when large group students correctly answers a question, it is impossible to draw an unambiguous conclusion from this. Two options are possible here: either they unanimously copied the correct answer from one of their comrades, or all as one very smart guys. But when a large group of students answer a question incorrectly, it is alarming: everyone cannot answer the same wrong - at least the likelihood of such a scenario is extremely small.

This suggests that they copied the wrong answer from one of their classmates.

3. Breaks or cigarettes?

Consider the following hypothetical news item from the internet: "People who take short breaks from work during the day are much more likely to die from cancer." According to a very impressive survey of 36,000 workers (huge amount of data, isn't it?!), those who left the office for regular ten-minute breaks during each working day were 41% more likely to get cancer in the next five years, than those who did not leave their offices. It is clear that, having learned such news, we are obliged to somehow react to it: perhaps, to conduct a nationwide campaign to ban short breaks during the working day.

Or maybe we should approach the problem from the other side and think about what exactly employees usually do during such ten minutes? It's not for me to tell you that many crowd near the entrance to the office building, smoking cigarettes (and creating a cloud of smoke through which those who enter or exit the building are forced to pass). I dare to suggest that it is cigarettes, and not short breaks in work, that are the main cause of cancer.

It means only one thing. If the input data is insufficient or statistical methods are used incorrectly, there is a risk that our conclusions may not only mislead us, but also be potentially dangerous.

4. Insidious Hollywood

Hollywood movie studios are the most egregious example of inflation's ignorance of the distortions of movie revenues over time. What, for example, does the top five highest-grossing (US domestic) films of all time look like in 2011?

1. "Avatar" (2009)
2. "Titanic" (1997)
3. " The Dark Knight» (2008)
four. " star Wars. Episode IV" (1977)
5. Shrek 2 (2004)

Does this list seem a bit suspicious to you?

These are all decent films - but Shrek 2? Did "Shrek 2" have more commercial success, how " gone With the Wind or The Godfather or Jaws? No no and one more time no! Hollywood would like to give us the impression that each of its next blockbuster is bigger and more profitable than the previous one.

It's just that the current dollar and the dollar it was ten years ago are far from the same thing: the purchasing power of the current dollar is much lower. As a result, any comparisons without adjusting for changes in the value of the dollar are not accurate.

Maybe the studios do it on purpose. But in fact, for everything to be fair, you need to take into account the price of a movie ticket, which is now higher than 10 years ago. And that's all. That's why Avatar and Shrek 2 are on the same list.

5 Gifted Terrorists

Exists scientific literature about terrorists and suicide bombers, a topic that would be very difficult to study in real life using volunteers as guinea pigs. Here is one of the important conclusions made by the economist Princeton University Alan Krueger: “Terrorists do not always come from the poorest sections of the population or poorly educated people, on the contrary, they usually belong to the middle class; their level of education is also quite high.”

What's the matter here? Because terrorists are motivated by specific political goals, those who are most educated and wealthy are motivated strong desire change society. Such people are especially outraged by the suppression of freedom, another factor associated with terrorism. And countries with high levels political repression more high level terrorist activities (provided that other factors remain unchanged).

Alan Kruger even wrote a book - How a Man Becomes a Terrorist.

The paradox of statistics is that they are ubiquitous, from so-called averages to presidential votes, yet they have a reputation for being uninteresting and obscure. Charles Whelan finally solved this problem. Each time he asks himself: “Why do I need this (calculations, data)?”. And finds the answer.

Numbers from 1 to 1,000,000 surround us wherever we are. They are our friends and helpers, we cannot live without each other. In this post, we will get to know them better, remember them in their natural form, even if we haven’t thought much about this topic since school. So let's get started.

single digits

Let's start with an unusually no unit.

Translation: One dot.

1 likes to pretend to be sublime and sophisticated, but after spending time in her company, you will quickly get bored. 1 has problems with positive - what fun is it when you are completely 1. Despite the fact that multiplying or dividing by it does not change anything, this loser did not even manage to get into prime numbers. It would seem that everything is as it should be: it is divisible only by itself and by one.

3,5 and 7 - here they will like the fans prime numbers.
Those who prefer composites will appreciate 8, it is naturally, although violating all arithmetic laws, made up of two 3.

6 and 9 are reversed alteregos of the same number, but 9 is also the square of 3.

Based on the name, everything is quite clear with these numbers, so let's move on.

Translation: 10 points

In a two-digit society, something interesting is finally starting to happen.

10 is an important bump in itself, all our decimal consciousness grows out of it. Perhaps this is because we also have 10 fingers. Arithmetic operations with 10 seem intuitive: just adding zeros or moving the decimal separator. Although the same thing happens in other systems - the Maya, for example, used a vigesimal system. True, it did not work with the end of the world.

But let's look at larger numbers.

12 is the number of people who have landed on the moon.

Take a moment and think about how overwhelming it is - people have been to the moon and back. And how lucky these 12 guys are! What could be more amazing than long jumps on the lunar surface with the Earth hovering above your head?

It is difficult to say who was annoyed by 13, but it was clearly not the one who should have been pissed off. Since today is 13 - singular with an officially bad reputation.
20 appeared here thanks to statistical fact, of which there will be many more in this post. Only 1 in 20 Americans grows to 187 cm (6 ft 2 in). So if your height is the same or more - congratulations, you are above the average American.

Translation: Average sample 20 American men.

1 in 43 Americans openly identifies as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. In a similar but anonymous poll, the figure jumped to 8 out of 43.

There are 41 princesses in the Disney universe, and real world as many as 48. True, Kate Middleton (Catherine Middleton) is not among them.

There are no other notable double-digit personalities until we get to 99. Corrupted, spoiled by the constant presence on the price tags, 99 tries all its life to fit in with 100.

Translation: 100 points.

100 is aware that she is an important person, and deservedly so. This is the first of three-digit numbers, but in reality it is the ruler of one— and two-digit numbers. 100 is a whole century, and within human life- an age that is not easy to reach.

To belong to the first hundred, to a certain extent, is quite an achievement. It looks like this:

If you hit the red dot with regard to wealth, you are that notorious 1 percent, annoying the rest. In the US, it takes almost $400,000 a year to do this, and only one-tenth of that amount ($39,000 in 2011) to get into the red dot on a global scale.

According to the results of the SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test - a standardized test for admission to higher educational establishments in the USA) the red dot will be anyone who scored 1,480 out of 1,600, or 2,200 out of 2,400 when passing the ACT (American College Testing - similar testing). 137 points on the Stanford-Binet IQ scale also means a red dot, as well as the fact that 99% of people are dumber than you.

After 100, we enter the territory of extremely diverse numbers and are the first to meet 101. Not like the previous fellow, but also somewhat known: 101 Dalmatians and 101st highway, one of the largest in the USA, passes through three states along the entire east coast of the country. 101 is a prime number and also the sum of five consecutive prime numbers (13+17+19+23+29).

Continuing the topic of statistics, 1 out of 100 dots means a person who speaks sign language (70 million worldwide), and 1 out of 179 people (39 million) is blind:

There are 444 Apple-branded stores around the world:

In poker, a flush combination (five cards of the same suit) will fall on average 1 out of 508 times:

There are 12 million dollar millionaires in the world, this is every 583rd. If your total assets (after covering debt) are more than $1,000,000, you are a red dot on this diagram:

Translation: 1,000 points.

1000 is a number of great significance, it managed to acquire a heap of nicknames: a piece, a mower, a ton, a kilo. In addition, this is part of a value series in which a million, a billion, a trillion, etc. follow it. Although the million is actually the third in this series, and the first is a simple 1. 1000 is the key multiplier of the entire chain.

1000, like 10, has no extractable integer root, and the exact one looks terribly awkward: 31.62277660168379.

Be that as it may, we continue the four-digit parade.

How many revolutions around its axis does a neutron star make every second:

How many minutes are there in a day:

IQ genius level -150 occurs on average once per 1,000 people. But even such high intelligence does not mean passing the SAT test with a maximum score - one in 1,489 people copes with this task:

There are 1,811 large corporations in the United States (more than 10,000 employees), and outside solar system 1,849 planets discovered.

On a cloudless night, up to 2,500 stars can be seen in the sky.

There are approximately 2,800 people around the world who are over 213 cm (7 feet) tall, and each of them has a 17 percent chance of making it to the NBA.

How many religions are there in the world:

It turns out that there are more religions in the world than there are stars in the sky. And if you call one per second, it will take more than an hour to list them.
Scientists identify more than 400,000 species of beetles and only 5,416 species of mammals.

There are 6,500 living languages ​​in the world, 2,000 of which have less than 1,000 speakers.

Finally, the number of medium-sized grains of sand (0.5 mm in diameter) that will fit in a 1 cm3 box:

Translation: 10,000 points.

If 1,000 attracts great attention, then 10,000 is clearly underestimated. No one gives the number of individual nicknames, although unlike 1,000, which has no whole root, 10,000 is a perfect square of 100x100 and 1% of a million.

Stephen Hawking's IQ is approximately 160, which makes him a red dot among 10,000 people with average intelligence. And for information, one person out of 17,000 is born with an albino.

Fenway Park is the home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team. During team games, it is packed to capacity and can accommodate the following number of people:

And the number of skyscrapers in Manhattan exceeds the number of Fanway Park fans and all the airports in the world (41,281) combined:

Google's 55,030 employees will fill the big stadium, as will Apple's 50,250 staff. There are significantly fewer people on Facebook - 8,348, and only 208 people support Wikipedia. The team at Graigslist, the most popular classifieds site in the US, can fit into a small bus:

Here are the seconds in a day:

Translation: 100,000 points.

For example, the Michigan Stadium, also known as the "Big House", seats up to 110,000, while India's Salt Lake Stadium, the world's largest, seats 120,000. North Korea claims that the stadium of the First May, Pyongyang can accommodate 150,000 spectators, but North Korea also reported that Kim Jong Il, playing golf for the first time, put 11 balls into the hole, each with one stroke. So let's consider the world's largest Salt Lake Stadium.

The capacity of the largest stadium is equivalent to the average number of abortions occurring daily:

This is about 1/3 of total number births worldwide: that is, a quarter of all pregnancies that do not result in miscarriage end in abortion. A similar level is observed in the US, with the exception of New York. In the Big Apple, 41 out of 100 pregnancies are terminated. Do not look for political statements or any appeal in this message, it is just a statistical (and discouraging) fact.

And now a million.

Now imagine what a negligible probability it is - one in a million? Try to find one red dot in the picture above.

The number is interesting because of its size, but at the same time it is the smallest of the huge family of “-llions”. It is small enough to still fit in a picture or diagram, which defines the boundary between the world that we are able to comprehend and the world beyond.

Red dot, if you find it, worth remembering when you buy lottery ticket or hear that 1 plane in 11 million crashes. Chance for similar event practically tends to zero.