# Make Up Real Sounding Statistics About Your Country (or other Demographic) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2023, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411 "2023-02-07T04:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/41 "2023-02-11T02:17:24Z")
93% of expats are smug, knowing they are superior to the local population because the expats know the “right” way of doing things. They also know they are superior to those closed minded bigots back home who have never had their horizons broadened. The other 7% are just doing drugs 7/24 and don’t realize they are in another country. By law, Japanese must have venting machines within 90 seconds walking distance of any residence. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/42 "2023-02-11T02:55:04Z")
In the land of Florida, you are three times as likely to accidentally swallow a bug as you are to get shot by a stray bullet, 42% of all homicides are legal, and if you combined the population’s areolas into one big circle, it’d cover an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/43 "2023-02-11T03:23:42Z")
15% of bass players thinks the audience knows they exist. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/44 "2023-02-14T03:46:02Z")
In Indiana, it is more likely that your one-time ticket purchase will win you a Powerball jackpot of $100,000,000 or more than that you will ever drive on I-65 for twenty miles or more without encountering construction-related lane closures. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/45 "2023-02-14T04:22:30Z")
64.3% Of synthesizer players who have a significant other are eventually asked “Did you buy that to just make atrocious noises?” 54.3% of the time, the honest answer is “Yes” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/46 "2023-02-14T04:24:15Z")
71.38759% of market research professionals have used unnecessary levels of precision in their data reporting. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/47 "2023-09-12T18:45:05Z")
Fact: most Canadian children eat poutine as their first solid food. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/48 "2023-09-12T19:01:36Z")
British Colombia is the only Canadian province to not actually exist. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/49 "2023-09-12T19:04:25Z")
I heard it briefly exists every one hundred years. But the guy that told me that was all hepped up on goofballs… ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/50 "2023-09-12T19:13:52Z")
The average Dungeons & Dragons player owns 114 different dice. 63% of D&D players are so possessive of their dice that they will use a pencil to stab the hand of another player who touches their dice. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/51 "2023-09-12T19:22:07Z")
The average English person consumes in a day: 13.3 cups of tea 2.2 scones 10 oz microwaveable French fries 45% of [a pie in a can](https://www.baxters.com/products/other-brands/fray-bentos) j ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/52 "2023-09-12T19:22:35Z")
In the United States, the ratio of lawyers to Spotted Lantern Flies is 3:1 > **[See a Spotted Lanternfly? US Officials Want You to Kill It](https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/states-urge-people-to-kill-invasive-spotted-lanternfly-spreading-in-the-us/3340193/?amp=1)** > > Kill-on-sight requests are a part of public campaigns to fight an invasive insect now massing and feeding on plants around much of the eastern United States. (Macabre humor, and nothing more, I swear!) ---
**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/53 "2023-09-12T19:26:15Z")
If you were to lift Canada up one foot, then place it on a post centered at Toronto City Hall, you can spin the country like a plate ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/54 "2023-09-12T19:37:13Z")
Canada was originally going to move the entire country one thousand miles to the south in order to get better weather. However, this is no longer public policy due to global warming and its likely future effects. Instead, Canadian governments actually encourage climate change by secretly putting extra chlorofluorocarbons in consumer spray products. 🫢 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/55 "2023-09-12T19:57:09Z")
In California, the leaves never turn brown or the sky grey. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/56 "2023-09-12T22:15:34Z")
It’s like that song _California Dreamin’_ _All the leaves are green And the sky is cirrocumulus_ ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411/57 "2023-09-12T23:52:31Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The average Dungeons & Dragons player owns 114 different dice. 63% of D&D players are so possessive of their dice that they will use a pencil to stab the hand of another player who touches their dice. Judging from personal experience, this is _far_ too low to be true! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-up-real-sounding-statistics-about-your-country-or-other-demographic/979411.md?page=2)