Sunday, June 14, 2020

100 People, 100 Quirky Personalities

There is an interesting website named 100people.org that breaks down the gender (at birth), age range, racial identity, religious preferences, educational level obtained, etc., distribution (disparities?) of the world's population based on proportionally reducing the population from 7.5 million to 100.

For example, based on the latest available data (2016), if there were only 100 people on the planet:

60 would be from Asia
16 would be from Africa 
10 would be from Europe
9 would be from Latin America & the Caribbean
5 would be from North America.

There are a lot of categories for the 100 distribution, such as how many people would speak a specific language, how many people would have access to clean drinking water, how many people would be older than 65, and so on.

However, there are a lot of categories that should be fairly easy to calculate that I think should be on that site.

Here are ten categories that I think would be welcome additions to the data.

1) How many of those 100 people have won a lottery jackpot that exceeds 1,000,000 dollars? There are lotteries in most countries on the planet, and the winners of the large jackpots are all known, so why not show that data? It would be interesting to know if more women than men win, or if it is easier to win a million dollars in the Spanish Christmas Lottery than it is in the China Welfare Lottery.

2) What is distribution of the worlds population by weight? Are the 5 people in North America significantly heavier than the 10 people in Europe, on average?

3) How many of the 100 people have eaten at a fast food restaurant, and what are the most preferred fast food restaurants?

4) What is the distribution of the 100 for people who have ever been a victim of a crime?

5) What is the distribution of the 100 for people who have ever been convicted of a crime?

6) How many of the 100 people have ever been featured in a movie or television show?

7) How many of those 100 people have ever been married?

8) How many of those 100 people have ever been divorced?

9) What are the 10 most commonly consumed foods by those 100 people?

And finally,

10) How many of those 100 people have ever been able to vote in a free and open election? (Free and open, as in, not a one-party election, or an election that only members of the particular ruling party can vote in).

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