3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.
One seventh of your life will be spent on Mondays.
40% of workplace absenteeism takes place on Mondays and Fridays.
Less than one quarter of an average week is spent at work (when calculated in hours).
so then why does it feel so much longer?!?!
In all seriousness, I’ll wager it’s higher than that.
Half the population is dumber than average.
I’ve got two arms, two legs, ten fingers and ten toes – I’m above average in every (listed) respect.
(As someone posted on another thread:)
The average American has less than two legs.
43% of statistics are made up on the spot.
Because 33% of the average week is spent sleeping (assuming you’re getting an average of 8hrs a night). Which means that in the average week, you’re spending almost 45% of your waking time at work.
I need to learn how to go without sleep, apparently.
I’m an insomniac. I go without sleep. I don’t recommend it!
The number of human testicles exceeds 95% of the number of human beings on earth.
However, human penises add up to less than half of the total human population.
Or as my father says, “Half of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their med school class.”
An even more pessimistic viewpoint:
Q: What do you call the guy who graduates at the bottom of the class in med school?
A: Doctor
Over 99% of the people in New Zealand have more than the average number of legs.
It’s true. There are certainly New Zealanders with one leg so the average number of legs is something like 1.9999. And 99% of the people have two legs which is more than the average.
ETA: I missed Paul’s post the first time and I see he already mentioned the same statistic.
50% of a person’s ancestors were female. (This explains why men have nipples.)
10% of all fingers will smell slightly different than the remaining 90%. :dubious:
You’re answering a different question. Panache45 said “a person’s ancestors” - the people who are the ancestors of one individual. So multiple births would have no effect.
The question you were answering was about “our ancestors” - the people who are the ancestors of anyone living today. That’s where the effects of people having different amounts of children come into play.
I had the same initial reaction, but after some consideration agree with Shalmanese. The explanation is incest. Now it’s unlikely that direct generational incest accounts for the 2:1 ratio from the link, but consider a culture with widespread polygamy (one husband many wives). An individual’s ancestral tree traced back to that culture may have many different female ancestors but converge to one very busy patriarch in male lineage (or a small set of very busy patriarchs).