amazing statistic of the day

[Pete]

Aha, so I think SimonCC may have a point there, see also here. Malthus also got it wrong in his predictions of how soon the world's food resources would run out. But even that 5.8% figure is quite scary when you compare the average human lifespan with the ages of human history. And we are certainly short of resources at this very moment. Been out to buy a loaf of bread lately?

 

[Arch]

It ruddy well isn't

Signed: A. Fieldmouse

Well, stop eating Spangles then...

 

[NickM]

"Sustainable Development".

The word "oxymoron" might have been coined to describe this phrase...

 

[simoncc]

Aha, so I think SimonCC may have a point there, see also here. Malthus also got it wrong in his predictions of how soon the world's food resources would run out. But even that 5.8% figure is quite scary when you compare the average human lifespan with the ages of human history. And we are certainly short of resources at this very moment. Been out to buy a loaf of bread lately?

It'd be interesting to know just how many gloom and doom scaremongers are alive today compared to the total that have ever lived. Given the continued quoting of the myth that is the topic of this discussion I'd say that quite a high proportion of them are alive right now.

 

[Elmer Fudd]

88.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot

I think you may find that it's actually 89.7%

All statistics have a margin of error of 1.7%

 

[Smokin Joe]

All statistics have a margin of error of 1.7%

Actually it's 17%.

1.7 is a popular myth because of a misplaced decimal point in the original calculation.

 

[Arch]

Actually it's 17%.

1.7 is a popular myth because of a misplaced decimal point in the original calculation.

Ah, like spinach!

 

[TheDoctor]

Ah, like spinach!

Spinach is a popular myth?
It's not very popular with me.

 

[Elmer Fudd]

If 70% of the UK have access to a private car and 30% can ride a bicycle.
How far is it to my Grans ?

 

[alecstilleyedye]

please note, the simoncc and User sideshow continues here

 

[stevenb]

The common gnat lives for just 1 hour but in it's brief life mates 117 times.
....the mirror opposite of my life...

 

[arranandy]

There are lies, damnned lies and statistics as some politician once said. Can't remember who though

 

[Elmer Fudd]

There are lies, damnned lies and statistics as some politician once said. Can't remember who though

Don't believe you, and neither do 8 out of 10 cats !

 

[stevenb]

About 10 years back it was said the entire worlds human population could stand on the Isle of Man.....

 

[Fnaar]

Wales is the only country that is precisely as big as Wales. Unlike Belgium.