Looking for a book of everyday statistics

January 15, 2006 3:03 PM

Looking for a book of everyday statistics that I read within the last few years. I remember one that went something like: It's 250 million times more likely that you will win the lottery than be born. Also some statistical information on why you should finish High School. Does that ring a bell with anyone?
posted by BoscosMom to writing & language (3 comments total)

That can't be right, otherwise 1.5 quintillion people would be millionaires.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:28 PM on January 15, 2006

Maybe this?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:42 PM on January 15, 2006

Maybe it's the chance that YOU would be born, i.e., that the particular combination of genes comes together the way that it did. But that would be just from your parents, would you have to include the data for all your x generations back & calculate chances of random mutations, crossover, etc? hmm.
posted by artifarce at 9:14 AM on January 16, 2006