Spyke
kbin.social

The number of skeletons inside of a human body is statistically greater than 1.

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knorke3reply
lemm.ee

actually, you're forgetting about amputees and people born with fewer limbs. it's likely less than 1.

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Norgurreply
kbin.social

Skeleton, not bones. Amputees still have.a skeleton, don't they?

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the question is: is a skeleton that's missing pieces still "one skeleton"? And if so, at which point does it become not a skeleton? Because i'm reasonably sure you wouldn't call a severed foot a skeleton even though it is still arguably "one skeleton" that is just missing a lot of pieces.

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dgmibreply
lemmy.world

And you’re forgetting that about 1% of the population is pregnant at any given time and has another whole human inside of them.

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knorke3reply
lemm.ee

honestly curious about how those two would end up statistically balancing out.

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There are not very many amputees compared to pregnant woman, and babies have a lot more bones that are in your typical limb

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lemmy.world

Of the ~100 billion humans who have ever lived, ~8 billion of them are still alive. Therefore, your chance of dying is only 92%, not 100%.

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lemmy.ml

These things are always subject to challenge but as I understand the oldest 'verified' person to have ever lived was 122 when they died.

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Who knows, at some point we might figure out how to stop/reverse aging, so your chance of dying (in the foreseeable future) is not 100%, only very close to it

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infosec.pub

Some women have four legs. It's a temporary condition, but I gander that it's common enough to offset the amputees.

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lemmy.world

Depends, do you have control of it once it's in? If not, then it's probably still the other person's, they're just using you as a shoe.

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Doesn’t matter, the total amount stays the same

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I saw your dad last night and he also temporarily had four legs so I guess he helped offset the amputeess too

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Pistcowreply
lemm.ee

Did you just assume my p-values!?

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lemm.ee

68% of statistical facts are incorrect, including this one

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They say 3 percent of the people use 5 to 6 percent of their brain, 97 percent use 3 percent and the rest goes down the drain

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lemm.ee

So in other words I'm above average

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If we’re including all humans, the mean is likely below 1, the median is possibly 1 and possibly 0, and the mode is probably 0.

If we’re limiting to the male sex, then the mode and median are probably 2, and the mean somewhere between 1 and 2.

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lemm.ee

I'm partially responsible for this stat

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Zatorereply
lemm.ee

Ya, but I'm also why the number is less than two

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

By being female or through loss?

Cuz I mean roughly half the population of the US has zero by default and they are included in this statistic. So for them you may also be part of why the number is greater than zero.

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Or through parenting, perhaps?

If you personally have two, but have two kids with zero, you're responsible for lowering the average to one, or lower depending on how we account for your partner's contribution

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For every snake on Earth, there is one snake dick. Half of all snakes are female.

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He didn't dare talk to Razek about an average of one hand. Otherwise the medics would have been very busy.

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