Maybe I'm wrong, but it might be interesting to have a thread with unusual statistics to keep us occupied with Trivia!
Here's one I came across today - according to the 2006 Census (RoI only), the most common age is 26; there were 77,922 persons of that age in the country on census day.
Incidentally, in 2002, the most common age was 21, there were 67,865 of that age in that census.
74% of statisics are made up on the spot anyway.
I thought it was 73% ::)
there are more rats in the UK than people
Almost 50% of the population earn less than the average wage.
Not a statistic but... there are more stars in the sky than there are grains on sand on planet earth... apparently. Someone must have counted them.
Quote from: Orior on March 04, 2008, 07:10:50 PM
Not a statistic but... there are more stars in the sky than there are grains on sand on planet earth... apparently. Someone must have counted them.
10 times more apparently:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/23/wstars23.xml&
Not a statistic either, but when I was a nipper, a Christian Brother used grains of sand to impress on us a scary concept of the eternity you would spend roasting in the fires of hell for not being good. He told us to imagine a bird that came to Bettystown beach once every million years and took away a grain of sand from the beach. (OK - he wasn't an expert in bird behaviour or the average lifespan of birds). By the time the bird had the beach entirely cleared of sand, eternity would be only just beginning!
On average, a healthy heterosexual woman will take approxiamately thirty six miles of male member during her active sex life. This is calculated on an average of 82 thrusts per act (provided that a six inch middle wicket is used) This is then calculated over 32 years at a figure of 100 acts per annum - Thus - 32 x 100 x 6 x 82 is the calculation. Which in fact is the length of road from Newry to Belfast. Strange but true... That drive will never be the same again
Quote from: Hurler on the Bitch on March 04, 2008, 08:01:36 PM
On average, a healthy heterosexual woman will take approxiamately thirty six miles of male member during her active sex life. This is calculated on an average of 82 thrusts per act (provided that a six inch middle wicket is used) This is then calculated over 32 years at a figure of 100 acts per annum - Thus - 32 x 100 x 6 x 82 is the calculation. Which in fact is the length of road from Newry to Belfast. Strange but true... That drive will never be the same again
I make it just shy of 25 miles according to the calculation you've outlined Hurler. More Hillsborough than Belfast.
Quote from: hardstation on March 04, 2008, 08:23:21 PM
Might take a different route from now on.......
You mean root?
Quote from: hardstation on March 04, 2008, 08:27:41 PM
No, as in a back road or something.
Probably only from Lisburn to Hillsborough, but you never know what goes on behind closed doors.
Tonight is Wes Brown's 50th Champions' League appearance for Man Utd.
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 30 goals in 30 games this season :)
BTW Hurler on the Bitch you need to get out more.....and as for that 100 times a year stat....aye right :-\
Liverpool have been Champions of Europe on 5 occasions
10% of StarTrek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether they need to or not.
Absolutely useless statistic that.
at the start of the match Man Utd had a 77% chance of winning
QuoteBTW Hurler on the Bitch you need to get out more.....and as for that 100 times a year stat....aye right
aye it's about 300 times a year I'd say.
Quote from: pintsofguinness on March 04, 2008, 09:43:43 PM
QuoteBTW Hurler on the Bitch you need to get out more.....and as for that 100 times a year stat....aye right
aye it's about 300 times a year I'd say.
Look - I know that you are probably a sexual he-man.. but I'm taking 100 as a ball-park figure. This allows for "period dramas" "I've got false tan on" "I'm tired" and "sure we did it last week" ...Then we have the times when its "Jesus! I'm horny, horny horny horny! - it's ateing the leg of me".... But as I am what I would consider 'a connisseur of sexual pleasure" I feel that I am right.. Now then, my second statistic.. Remember that band 10cc? Well multiply the original figure by 10cc and that's quite a few gallons in the oul shuck!
Quote from: Niall Quinn on March 04, 2008, 08:19:46 PM
Quote from: Hurler on the Bitch on March 04, 2008, 08:01:36 PM
On average, a healthy heterosexual woman will take approxiamately thirty six miles of male member during her active sex life. This is calculated on an average of 82 thrusts per act (provided that a six inch middle wicket is used) This is then calculated over 32 years at a figure of 100 acts per annum - Thus - 32 x 100 x 6 x 82 is the calculation. Which in fact is the length of road from Newry to Belfast. Strange but true... That drive will never be the same again
I make it just shy of 25 miles according to the calculation you've outlined Hurler. More Hillsborough than Belfast.
PS .. The calculation is null and void if your penis is smaller than the average man's. That is why you are in Hillsborough while us real men are in the Crown having a pint!!
0.3 per cent of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.
13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
4 per cent of the U.S. population are vegetarians.
40 per cent of cat and dog owners carry pictures of their pets in their wallets.
40 per cent of women have hurled footwear at a man.
50 per cent of bank robberies take place on Fridays.
70 per cent of all boats sold are used in fishing.
90 per cent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the U.S.
About 200 babies are born worldwide every minute.
Approximately 97.3978271128 per cent of all statistics are made up.
Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeer.
August is the month when most babies are born.
The average 4-year-old asks over 400 questions a day.
The average adult spends about 12 minutes in the shower per day.
The average person keeps old magazines for 29 weeks before they throw them out.
The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day.
The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic lights to change.
Roscommon men masturbate 26.3% more then any other race
Children between the ages of two and seven, on average, colour for 28 minutes every day
Couples who marry in January, February and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the largest number of bars per capita than anywhere else in the world.
In Calcutta, 79 per cent of the population live in one-room houses.
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
47.68% of camels are bi-sexual.
The longest kiss on record lasted 130 hours and two minutes.
Married men tip better than unmarried men.
Men are 1.6 times more likely to undergo by-pass heart surgery than women.
97.2% of the GPA members who participate in their 'votes' are made up.
The most hazardous season: summer.
Odds of being killed by a dog: one in 700,000.
Odds of being killed by a tornado: one in 2,000,000.
Odds of being killed by falling out of bed: one in 2,000,000.
Odds of being killed in a car crash: one in 5,000.
Odds of being murdered: one in 20,000.
Odds of dying in the bathtub: one in 1,000,000.
Qatar has the lowest death rate in the world at 1.6 deaths for every 1,000 persons.
The record for the world's worst driver is shared by (1) a 75-year old man who received 10 traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road 4 times, committed 4 hit-and-run offences and aused 6 accidents, all within 20 minutes on 15 Oct 1966; and (2) a 62-year-old woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August 1970 (by that time she had spent over $1,000 in lessons and could no longer afford to buy a car).
The safest age of life is 10 years old.
Sweden has the least number of murders annually.
Women shoplift more than men – the statistics are four to one.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
Quote from: stephenite on March 05, 2008, 03:00:43 AM
0.3 per cent of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.
13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
4 per cent of the U.S. population are vegetarians.
40 per cent of cat and dog owners carry pictures of their pets in their wallets.
40 per cent of women have hurled footwear at a man.
50 per cent of bank robberies take place on Fridays.
70 per cent of all boats sold are used in fishing.
90 per cent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the U.S.
About 200 babies are born worldwide every minute.
Approximately 97.3978271128 per cent of all statistics are made up.
Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeer.
August is the month when most babies are born.
The average 4-year-old asks over 400 questions a day.
The average adult spends about 12 minutes in the shower per day.
The average person keeps old magazines for 29 weeks before they throw them out.
The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day.
The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic lights to change.
Roscommon men masturbate 26.3% more then any other race
Children between the ages of two and seven, on average, colour for 28 minutes every day
Couples who marry in January, February and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the largest number of bars per capita than anywhere else in the world.
In Calcutta, 79 per cent of the population live in one-room houses.
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
47.68% of camels are bi-sexual.
The longest kiss on record lasted 130 hours and two minutes.
Married men tip better than unmarried men.
Men are 1.6 times more likely to undergo by-pass heart surgery than women.
97.2% of the GPA members who participate in their 'votes' are made up.
The most hazardous season: summer.
Odds of being killed by a dog: one in 700,000.
Odds of being killed by a tornado: one in 2,000,000.
Odds of being killed by falling out of bed: one in 2,000,000.
Odds of being killed in a car crash: one in 5,000.
Odds of being murdered: one in 20,000.
Odds of dying in the bathtub: one in 1,000,000.
Qatar has the lowest death rate in the world at 1.6 deaths for every 1,000 persons.
The record for the world's worst driver is shared by (1) a 75-year old man who received 10 traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road 4 times, committed 4 hit-and-run offences and aused 6 accidents, all within 20 minutes on 15 Oct 1966; and (2) a 62-year-old woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August 1970 (by that time she had spent over $1,000 in lessons and could no longer afford to buy a car).
The safest age of life is 10 years old.
Sweden has the least number of murders annually.
Women shoplift more than men – the statistics are four to one.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
I have had the pleasure of being attacked by both. :o
Quote from: Zapatista on March 04, 2008, 05:21:17 PM
74% of statisics are made up on the spot anyway.
Only 57% of people know this tho
;D
Some great ones in there Stephenite!
60% of the time, it works every time.
QuoteAlmost 50% of the population earn less than the average wage
????
But 49% of people are below average intelligence
there are more people alive now than have ever died
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was proposed by Ireland
The population of Baldoyle (Dublin) has fallen by 6.8% since the last census, bucking the national trend of an 8.2% increase.
Quote from: rosnarun on March 05, 2008, 10:47:11 AM
QuoteAlmost 50% of the population earn less than the average wage
????
But 49% of people are below average intelligence
there are more people alive now than have ever died
Not to be a killjoy but unfortunately this isn't right. About 94% of people born have died according to the WHO not the band
In France, between the hours of 8AM and 8PM, 70% of music on the radio must be by French artists.
Quote from: Hurler on the Bitch on March 04, 2008, 10:06:15 PM
Quote from: Niall Quinn on March 04, 2008, 08:19:46 PM
Quote from: Hurler on the Bitch on March 04, 2008, 08:01:36 PM
On average, a healthy heterosexual woman will take approxiamately thirty six miles of male member during her active sex life. This is calculated on an average of 82 thrusts per act (provided that a six inch middle wicket is used) This is then calculated over 32 years at a figure of 100 acts per annum - Thus - 32 x 100 x 6 x 82 is the calculation. Which in fact is the length of road from Newry to Belfast. Strange but true... That drive will never be the same again
I make it just shy of 25 miles according to the calculation you've outlined Hurler. More Hillsborough than Belfast.
PS .. The calculation is null and void if your penis is smaller than the average man's. That is why you are in Hillsborough while us real men are in the Crown having a pint!!
I came up with the same result as Mother Teresa Quinn. To arrive at your Newry figure would require a total inability to deal with the imperial system of measurement.
Quote from: Hurler on the Bitch on March 04, 2008, 08:01:36 PM
On average, a healthy heterosexual woman will take approxiamately thirty six miles of male member during her active sex life. This is calculated on an average of 82 thrusts per act (provided that a six inch middle wicket is used) This is then calculated over 32 years at a figure of 100 acts per annum - Thus - 32 x 100 x 6 x 82 is the calculation. Which in fact is the length of road from Newry to Belfast. Strange but true... That drive will never be the same again
82 thrusts? Don't you mean 8.2? :P