number love
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A small book I put together in second year, in response to the ridiculous statistics found in the book 'The Tyranny of Numbers', by David Boyle.TRANSCRIPT
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Number
10V3
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Amount of time in an average lifetime in Britain spent looking for lost things (in years).
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Length of time a snail can sleep if it isn’t disturbed (in years).
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Number of British school children who think Adolf Hitler was British prime minister during the Second World War.
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Number of Americans injured by supermarket trolleys every hour.
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Number of spiders we eat accidently in an average lifetime.
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Number of days spent by British people in traffic jams every year.
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Speed (in mph) of London traffic in 1900.Also speed of London traffic in 1996.
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Amount of time US patients are allowed to speak before being interrupted by their doctors (in seconds).
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Percentage of medical columns in Canadian newspapers judged to be giving ‘potentially life-threatening’ advice.
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Percentage of people from India who have not heard of the USA.
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Number of people in the UK visiting Accident and Emergency departments after accidents involving tea-cosies (1997).
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Percentage that the death rate dropped during a month-long doctors’ strike in Israel in 1973.
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Average amount of hours British people spend on hold on the phone every year.
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Percentage of British males who believe in aliens.
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Sherony [email protected]+44 (0) 7758 032 760
(*all statistics in this book are taken from
David Boyle’s book, “The Tyranny of Numbers”)