This is just for the fun of pointing out how bored some mathematicians can get. I will credit my source for most of these.
Chance of being born a male: 1 in 2
Odds that a celebrity marriage will last a lifetime: 1 in 3
Chance of suffering from asthma or allergy diseases: 1 in 6
Odds of getting hemorrhoids: 1 in 25
Odds of being on plane with a drunken pilot: 1 in 117
Odds of catching a ball at a major league ballgame: 1 in 563
Chance that Earth will experience a catastrophic collision with an asteroid in the next 100 years: 1 in 5,000
Odds of being considered possessed by Satan: 1 in 7,000
Odds of getting a royal flush in poker on first five cards dealt: 1 in 649,740
Chance of dying in a terrorist attack while visiting a foreign country: 1 in 650,000
Odds of drowning in a bathtub: 1 in 685,000
Chance of dying from contact with a venomous animal or plant: 1 in 3,441,325
Odds of Winning the Wisconsin Lottery: 1 in 6,991,908
Chance of dying from parts falling off an airplane: 1 in 10,000,000
Chance of dying from ignition or melting of nightwear: 1 in 30,589,556
Chance of dying from a mountain lion attack in California: 1 in 32,000,000
Odds of winning the multi-state lottery in the USA: 1 in 146,107, 962
Chance of dying from a shark attack: 1 in 300,000,000
Odds of a meteor landing on your house: 1 in 182,138,880,000,000
Odds when things are considered statistically laughable or impossible:
1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Odds of Evolution happening: 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000
You get the picture.
Have a nice weekend,
Anah
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2 Comments
sorry i don’t really know this odds! thanks for sharing though it is not believable!
Thanks for dropping by Juler.
As for the odds, Statistics is a college level math class and I started losing interest at the 5th grade level. (That’s a totally different story.)
So I’ll take the work of the mathematicians for what it is worth. I picked out some that beg the question of - Why would anyone bother to figure that out?
I find it particularly funny that we have better odds of dying in our sleep from burning pajamas than we do winning the jackpot of the big lottery in the USA.
Thanks much,
Anah