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Why you should edit your statistics carefully

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 04:11pm on 23/03/2004
"In 1990 women around the world gave birth to 3.3 children on average, the report says." (from the BBC)

That's not humanly possible... unless quadruplets are far more common than I thought...
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posted by [identity profile] kashmera.livejournal.com at 01:32pm on 23/03/2004
ew...messy image.

Oh...on average

Still, I agree. If it had been 100/200 years earlier....
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posted by [identity profile] tammabanana.livejournal.com at 01:40pm on 23/03/2004
ew...messy image.

*rolls*
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posted by [identity profile] tsutanai.livejournal.com at 02:09pm on 23/03/2004
Well, the "women around the world" is vague enough, that perhaps we are dealing with an international triplet/quadruplet birthing cartel. One wouldn't expect the same cartel to fare well in production in 1991, however.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 04:59pm on 23/03/2004
Keeping up that kind of rate of production two years running seems like an unlikely expectation. The article didn't go into the production rate for any other year, however.
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