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Chances of being born in each Continent
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Ok, now make this but per land area.
No chance of being born in New Zealand I see
It's more proof it doesn't exist.
Technically Antarctica isn't 0. There's a civilian colony and at least one baby has been born there.
Eh it rounds down at that point
11 people were born there. That's a ~0.00000000133649348822 chance. Small but not impossible.
So me being born in Australia was like getting a mythic prize in a loot crate.
How about chances of being born in the ocean, or even on this planet?
Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity
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.
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)
Do you come from a land of plenty?
Statistically, no.
I've already been born so my odds should be updated.
This is actually percent of each population that believes in reincarnation
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New Zealand’s gone missing again, I’m assuming it’s lumped in with Australia.
No it means there is zero percent chance of New Zealand
NaN
New Zealand is in stealth mode. We keep it off the maps so trump doesn't know it exists and leaves it alone
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
Y'all probably already knew about the Valeriepieris circle, I guess.
I did, but now I also know about Danny Quah's 2015 circle :)
It’s not zero for Antarctica, just nearly zero. 11 people have been born in Antarctica. Mostly argentinians but also a couple chileans.
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.
It's a good reminder though that 0.0% doesn't have to equal 0
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.
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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.
So there's a chance I'll be born in Antarctica?
Small chance you still might, I'll cross my fingers for you
thanks! I'm working on it
IIRC Argentina facilitated a few births on the outlying islands to make a point. Usually kids are avoided in such a harsh and precarious place, though.
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What time frame does this represent?
Births in 2025 might be majority subsaharan Africa.
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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Challenge accepted! Proceeds to breed in Antarctica
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
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