Top Items About Statistics
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Trivia | A human life in numbers | Life expectancy – 78.5 years or 2,475,576,000 seconds | root | 204 | |
| Anecdotes | 50-50 Proposition | While lecturing on probability at Warwick University one day in October 1972, Jeffrey Hamilton, demonstrating the effect... | Anonymous | 53 | |
| Trivia | Trivia about Visitors, Tourism and Buildings | More than 120,000,000 people have visited the viewing area on the Empire State Building`s 86th floor. | Anonymous | 41 | |
| Jokes | Joke about Jokes, Funny and One-Liners | `The number of cigarettes sold in the U.S. has fallen to the lowest level in 55 years. The reason? Most smokers are dead!`... | Anonymous | 37 | |
| Images | How much tea do Brits drink in a lifetime? | The average Brit drinks 74,802 cups of tea in their lifetime. Nick Watts laid out 74,802 cups of tea in Trafalgar Square to promote the documentary "Human Footprint." | root | 35 | |
| Jokes | Joke about Marriage, Jokes and Funny | `The Wall Street Journal reports that two million Americans got married because of someone they met online. The bad... | Anonymous | 34 | |
| Trivia | Google's Statistical Quality Control Memos | Google is so obsessed with data that it posts nerdy tip sheets on statistical-quality measurement above the urinals at... | root | 33 | |
| Jokes | Joke about Jokes, DUI and Car Accidents | `According to a recent study, my home state of Massachusetts has some of the worst drivers in the nation. In fairness... | Anonymous | 32 | |
| Trivia | Trivia about Germans, Statistics and Irish | After the 2000 census, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 15.2% of the American population was of German ancestry.... | Anonymous | 28 | |
| Anecdotes | Richmond | Though suffering from a terrible headache one day, Bret Harte attended a lecture in Richmond, Virginia. When the... | Anonymous | 25 |
