On the shores of the Baltic Sea, in the south of Denmark, a massive engineering marvel is taking shape — piece by giant concrete piece — that, when finished, will be the longest of its kind in the world.
Made me look it up. About 1 in 100.000 people lose a finger each year, so with an average life expectancy of 73 yo. and some generous rounding your finger math would be off by one finger on average in about 3% of the sample sets you pull.
Look, I don’t know why your joke led me down this google rabbit hole, but it did and I’m glad it did.
Ah, damn, I hadn’t accounted for polydactylia. Wikipedia tells me 4 to 12 people in 10.000 have an extra finger, which is more than I’d have guessed and it gets in the way of my 7.3 in 10.000 estimate. It’s counterintuitive, too, because I feel like I know more people with nine fingers than 11 or up.
It gets complicated, because it can also happen with toes, which we’re not counting, and some amount of people have it removed surgically and I don’t have data for that.
Let’s just leave it in that somewhere between 0 and 3% of the time you’d be one finger off and 0-3% of the time you’d get the right number of fingers but not in the way you’d expect.
Made me look it up. About 1 in 100.000 people lose a finger each year, so with an average life expectancy of 73 yo. and some generous rounding your finger math would be off by one finger on average in about 3% of the sample sets you pull.
Look, I don’t know why your joke led me down this google rabbit hole, but it did and I’m glad it did.
If you have two arms, you have more than the average human.
Ah, damn, I hadn’t accounted for polydactylia. Wikipedia tells me 4 to 12 people in 10.000 have an extra finger, which is more than I’d have guessed and it gets in the way of my 7.3 in 10.000 estimate. It’s counterintuitive, too, because I feel like I know more people with nine fingers than 11 or up.
It gets complicated, because it can also happen with toes, which we’re not counting, and some amount of people have it removed surgically and I don’t have data for that.
Let’s just leave it in that somewhere between 0 and 3% of the time you’d be one finger off and 0-3% of the time you’d get the right number of fingers but not in the way you’d expect.
I’m glad it did too. I did not need this information, nor do I know what to do with it, but somehow you made both of our days a little bit better.
It is okay. Its Friday and we all just want to get off work.