Put things in perspective

I came across the following stats and found them interesting:

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

There would be:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south

8 Africans


52 would be female

48 would be male


70 would be non-white

30 would be white


70 would be non-Christian

30 would be Christian



89 would be heterosexual

11 would be homosexual


6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.



80 would live in substandard housing

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition

1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth

1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education

1 would own a computer

Can I be the male white non-christian college-educated heterosexual with a computer, owning the 41% of the entire world's wealth that those six Americans don't own?

Thx in advance.

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70 would be unable to read

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Able, not unable ;)

Thats pretty interesting.... could you show me the formula you used to come to this conclusion?

I would be white, heterosexual, Christian. Would be male from the Western Hemisphere
would suffer from malnutrition, and would own a computer. Heheh....
Where do you guys fall?

I'm with Dr Toker on that one :P not sure about malnutrition, though......

bah, that thing has been going arround the net for atleast 2 years, and i see it atleast every 3 months. IMO, its mostly BS. thost statistics dont seem right to me...for example :
"89 would be heterosexual

11 would be homosexual"

erm, thats 100% of the people, what about all the bi-sexual people? do they suddenly not exist?

besides, true statistics never add up to a full 100% without adding in a "other" catagory(well, not that kind anyway, the have and have not things can, but not this). for instance, there are also people who are sometimes identified as "tri-sexual" who enjoy sleeping with men, women, and various animals. granted, that percentage must be tiny, but if "11%" of all the people in the world are homosexual atleast 1% has to be bi.

"36% of statistics are made up on the spot" :D

oh....just thought of looking over at snopes for this...yep, they have it and have a through discussion of the percentages represented and why they are less than accurate. check it out:
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.htm

i think i drove thru that town once