h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It works like this...

We see so many useless statistics around, about people and diseases. In this game we put as many of them together as we find them, as one person adds on the next one.

for example: One in three of us will get cancer. One in ten of us are gay. So one in thirty of us will be gay and have cancer.

The aim is to get the longest, sillyest statistic possible.

For those who aren't sure how to work these out, to find the probability, multipy the denominators (some thing parts of the one in somethings!) together.

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One in three of us will get cancer.

one in thirty will have cancer and be lefthanded

one in three hundered will have cancer, be lefthanded, and gay.

one in 301 will have cancer, be left handed, gay and eat biscuits

Cancer is the leading cause of useless statistics.




pedboy

One in 3010 will have cancer, be left handed, gay, eat biscuits and be colourblind

One in 30,100 will have cancer, be left handed, gay, eat biscuits, colourblind and be descended from Charlemagne.

one in 1806000 will have cancer, be left handed, be gay, eat biscuits, be colourblind, be descended from Charlemagne and have an IQ high enough to join mensa.

It is better to have cancer than be a doctor, as half the cancer patients survive, while all doctors die.

One in 7224000 will have cancer, be left handed, be gay, eat biscuits, be colourblind, be descended from Charlemagne, be Chinese and have an IQ high enough to join mensa.

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One in 36120000000 will have cancer, be left handed, be gay, eat biscuits, be colourblind, be descended from Charlemagne, be Chinese, have an IQ high enough to join mensa and will die in a car crash.





bet you would hate me if i put up that 0 out of all presidents were only chilren, turn it to:

0 in 36120000000 will have cancer, be left handed, be gay, eat biscuits, be colourblind, be descended from Charlemagne, be Chinese, have an IQ high enough to join mensa, will die in a car crash and be an only child president of america

Hello, If the universe is infinite, then im "a" center, 21+4^1+8+9=42

We hate you already, if only because your name is excrutiatingly long and impossible to abbreviate. (why is abbreviate such a long word?)

It's well known that 87% of statistics are made up on the spot (including this one) quite often by people with poor short-term memories. Perhaps we can work that in let's see 79% of statistics ...

One in 2.85348E+10 will have cancer, be left handed, be gay, eat biscuits, be colourblind, be descended from Charlemagne, be Chinese, have an IQ high enough to join mensa, will die in a car crash and be just another statistic with short term memory problems.

Note the scientific notation!

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very good work

you can call me a number of things:

iffy
univese
centre
universes center
a center



god, one out of every 10 people who meet me give me on of those

Aha, this means that one person in 2.85348E+11 will have cancer, be left handed, be gay, eat biscuits, be colourblind, be descended from Charlemagne, be Chinese, have an IQ high enough to join mensa, will die in a car crash, be just another statistic with short term memory problems and call you "iffy", "universe", "centre", "universes center" or "a center".

It looks like this makes it less than one person on Earth .

Wait.. so if I can translate that into a one in... Bear with me

One in 285,348,000,000 will have cancer, be left handed, be gay, eat biscuits, be colourblind, be descended from Charlemagne, be Chinese, have an IQ high enough to join mensa, will die in a car crash, be just another statistic with short term memory problems and call you "iffy", "universe", "centre", "universes center" or "a center".

Don't ask me what that is in terms of real numbers

Anyone up for another round?