Update: This post appears factually inaccurate, see the comments for more information.
An Easy Way to Look at the "Bigger Picture"
So I'm being moral support for my friend right now while she's doing some late night cramming for her Women's Studies final tomorrow and she just read me some crazy statistics that I thought people might like to know. If the world's population were to be condensed to 100 people, keeping all percentages the same, the following would be true:
Kind of puts things into perspective. While we're all stressing about finals, try and keep in mind that we're 1 out of 100 that are lucky enough to even be in college.
May 06, 2010
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Puts it into perspective really, especially the last 2. 1/100 SERIOUSLY!!! The world is seriously messed up with figures like that.
This was submitted by someone using the username, "Anonymous_," so I did not credit it to anyone, but to be sure this was a user submitted post.
Many of those stats are way off. Try again.
Let me know which you take issue with specifically and I will try to find more accurate information. I expect the submitter got their data from a textbook, where are you getting yours?
Complete bullshit. For an example, take the first statistic illiteracy is under 20% globally.
@Dan
You could read this: http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.asp
Well I'll leave this post as a testament to fact checking. Tomorrow's Depression Session post I can assure you will be factually accurate with sources.
Those statistics are what I just read out of the book Women's Lives; Multicultural Perspectives by Gwyn Kirk. Here is the link: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Womens-Lives/Gwyn-Kirk/e/9780073529417 The statistics are correct as of 2006. If you are going to disagree with them then why don't you come up with some sort of evidence that backs up your statement.
Kirk appears to be wrong.
CIA world factbook (for example) has world literacy at 82% (2005) UN Food & Agriculture Organization estimates 923 million undernourished (2007) CIA factbook (again) estimates world "internet users" at 1.6 billion. (2008) [this may differ from "owns a computer" but it's a better stat anyways]
Some of the rest are probably right. I just checked the ones I knew were off.