Stats that are surprising

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I came across a stat online earlier that said 80% of the world's population hasn't been on a plane. Aibu to find this so surprising?

What other stats have you come across which suprised you?

You haven't got a clue how appropriate your username is.

Men born in 1953, you missed that part

This is a bit of an odd example

but the fact itself is totally mind blowing

this is the best thing I’ve learned from this thread - and for a while to be honest!

Hello American person- you are extremely ignorant and also what on earth are you doing on UK Mumsnet?

“The bigger the group the more likely it is”

No shit.

I though that this concept of time was common knowledge.

Well apart from the civil war comment they aren’t wrong.
Having lived in America there are countless opportunities to travel within the country.
The UK is small, and increasingly generic, and unfortunately going down the pan.

T rex lived closer in time to us than to stegosaurus

WtAF are you talking about?

Yes, I have always found the stats around how much is paid in by who and what it spent on extremely interesting.
I remember reading that the U.K. has about half the rate of road deaths as Germany and the lowest rate in Europe, although that was about 20 years ago and may have changed. However we have a comparable or higher rate of pedestrian deaths.
Also the fact that you are far more likely to be killed in a car than in a plane accident, but I can’t remember the stats.

Where do you live in the UK??

Pwa ha ha!

Oh dear - someone's feeling a bit inferior!

I read somewhere that the entire population of the world, if standing shoulder to shoulder, could fit on the Isle of Man but that can't possibly be true surely.

Quite. What studies are these stats based on, if any?

Please quote your sources for this.About households and tax, not drcks of cards.

The Lancet Review on breastfeeding (2023) addresses the reasons why. Clue: formula companies manipulate people + older generations can’t offer advice (mostly) because they used formula + BFing is harder than formula so people give up

Fucking hell. A few pissed-up scallies in the street pushing bins, throwing bottles and breaking a couple of windows is a “Civil War”? Hyperbole much?

How would you have described the storming of the Capitol where people actually died? Armageddon? An apocalypse?

Probably. The stats I saw said you could fit the entire population within the M25. https://brilliantmaps.com/population-m25/ but I don't think that's a good idea as it's hot and crowded enough in London as it is

Alternatively you could house the entire global population within the island of Great Britain and we all have about 7 square metres each so space to sleep, move about a bit. Or even more if we built up a storey or two. But then you'd need to assign other countries to be the food places or infrastructure like waste disposal. I don't know why you would though, efficiency I guess.

Are you me?!!!! I’ve been aware of these stats too and had a similar reaction. I think it’s 1 in 7 men has used a prostitute at least once. I felt very they walk amongst us after I found that out. This was after discovering my ex was one of them.

1 in 4 for DA is correct to my knowledge, as Women’s Aid give this figure and again, my head got in knots. I’d sit on a work call and think, five of us, chances are, one of us… I’d think, who are the men doing this? Is it a smaller representation and they do it on repeat to the female population? Does a man who does it, abuse an average of 8 women, 15 women, in his lifetime? I can’t explain it I just found it staggering. Who are the men?? I must know some men who do this. Who ARE THEY.

I think that will be the biggest can’t believe that used to happen moment, when it changes, we will eventually look back in utter gobsmacking disbelief that it was culturally allowed, a blind eye turned.

I think they are just trolling at this point. And using AI to come up with arguments which I make a point of not reading. If noone read obviously AI generated posts maybe the people who copy and paste it would stop. That's my forlorn hope.

you have everything imaginable by way of variation and every holiday and experience money can buy at your fingertips
Or just trying to make the whole Zoro ranch thing a positive. Bleeurgh

In the UK you haven't gone on vacation if it isn't abroad

Not true at all.
Many UK people go on holiday within the UK.

In a secure facility hopefully.

The use of ‘vacation’ says it all really.

Roughly one in two people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime in the UK.

Well I asked Chat GPT the definiton of a civl war and it said this -

A civil war is generally defined as sustained, organised armed conflict between groups within the same country or state, usually involving the government fighting an organised domestic group, or rival domestic groups fighting for control, independence, or major political change.
There isn't one universally agreed legal definition, but civil wars normally have several characteristics: the violence is organised rather than sporadic, occurs primarily within a state's territory, involves identifiable armed groups capable of sustained fighting, and reaches a substantial level of intensity.
For example, the American Civil War is unambiguously a civil war because the Union and Confederacy fielded organised armies and fought sustained campaigns over control and secession.
One important distinction is that civil unrest isn't necessarily civil war. Riots, violent protests, terrorism, political assassinations or clashes between communities can be extremely serious without constituting a civil war. They generally cross into something we'd describe as civil war when violence becomes sustained armed conflict between organised parties.
Researchers sometimes make this more precise by imposing numerical thresholds. A well-known academic definition associated with the Correlates of War project requires at least 1,000 battle-related deaths during the conflict, together with meaningful resistance by both sides. Other datasets use lower thresholds and distinguish between an armed conflict and a war.
So, in ordinary language, a useful test is:
Are organised groups within one state engaged in sustained warfare against each other, rather than episodes of political or communal violence?
If yes, “civil war” is probably an appropriate description.