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[-] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 117 points 5 months ago

I've already been born so my odds should be updated.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

This is actually percent of each population that believes in reincarnation

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[-] teft@lemmy.world 72 points 5 months ago

It’s not zero for Antarctica, just nearly zero. 11 people have been born in Antarctica. Mostly argentinians but also a couple chileans.

[-] zelgo@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

Okay and that would still be less than 0.00% which is the significant figures on the chart. They can't just put 0.01.because 11 out 8 billion people were born there.

[-] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They could have put <0.01 but either way there's no real society/culture there to bwgin with. I personally wouldn't have even included it on the map.

I will say if they were included on education stats, they would probably top all global charts.

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 6 points 5 months ago

It's a good reminder though that 0.0% doesn't have to equal 0

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And lets not get into the nationality thing there

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[-] mercano@lemmy.world 47 points 5 months ago

New Zealand’s gone missing again, I’m assuming it’s lumped in with Australia.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago

No it means there is zero percent chance of New Zealand

[-] Gorge@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

New Zealand is in stealth mode. We keep it off the maps so trump doesn't know it exists and leaves it alone

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 7 points 5 months ago

It's crazy they did include a bit of Russia near Alaska and also bothered to add the Galapagos (where nobody lives) but omitted NZ

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

No chance of being born in New Zealand I see

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

It's more proof it doesn't exist.

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[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Remember everyone: 100.00% does not mean all, and 0.00% does not mean none, just like 50.00% does not mean exactly half. They all are accurate to 0.005% points.

[-] match@pawb.social 19 points 5 months ago

So there's a chance I'll be born in Antarctica?

[-] matti@sopuli.xyz 20 points 5 months ago

You, no. Some other guy, maybe.

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[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 25 points 5 months ago

Maps without New Zealand

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 months ago

I'm not so sure I would trust any statistics from a map that's missing New Zealand.

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[-] nevetsg@aussie.zone 21 points 5 months ago

So me being born in Australia was like getting a mythic prize in a loot crate.

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

With all the scientists and cruises that tour around Antarctica, I am not convinced that the chances of being born there are a flat 0. It might be less than 1% but no way it's 0.

At least 11 babies have been born in Antarctica.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

0.0000001375%!

(This is based solely on roughly how many people exist, not birth rates, because I ain't doing the real math for what is ultimately a rounding error)

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

Do you come from a land of plenty?

Statistically, no.

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[-] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Technically Antarctica isn't 0. There's a civilian colony and at least one baby has been born there.

[-] Soulg@ani.social 24 points 5 months ago

Eh it rounds down at that point

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 23 points 5 months ago

11 people were born there. That's a ~0.00000000133649348822 chance. Small but not impossible.

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[-] M137@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Yet Americans act like they're 90% of the world and no one and nothing outside the US matters.

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[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 months ago

I think those chances vary a lot based on where your parents live.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago

How about chances of being born in the ocean, or even on this planet?

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[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 10 points 5 months ago

Y'all probably already knew about the Valeriepieris circle, I guess.

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[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months ago

I misread this as "Chances of being born in each Connecticut" and while I know humans are fond of naming places after existing places, I'd be surprised if every continent has a place officially named Connecticut

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

Antarctica doesn't have one apparently

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What time frame does this represent?

Births in 2025 might be majority subsaharan Africa.

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

It would be really interesting to see chances of being born across all time. Like what is the probability of being born here and now vs. somewhere else in the past or the future.

You would have to make some predictions based on population growth and maybe model a few different possible apocalypses (average species lifetime/meteor probabilities/nuclear doomsday/climate disaster etc.) but it would be a fun model to play with.

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[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 9 points 5 months ago

Can't believe I used up all my luck for that

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Fellow Antarctican?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

Ok, now make this but per land area.

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