Statistical fun!

Who likes looking at random statistics? I do and I didn't have any real topic to create around it for on-topic discussion so here I am.

I was looking at Household income and poverty lines.

Poverty-ish Measures:

• Canada: $41,198 for a 4-person family (2008 Low Income cut-off)
• United States: $23,050 for a 4-person family (2012 Federal Poverty Line)

Median Household Income

• Canada: $69,860 (2010)
• United States: $49,445 (2010)

Dang, Canadian poor people are rich.

It's Canadialand!

i.e. Europe, but cooler.

• Number of people killed annually by shark attacks: ~20
• Number of people killed annually by lightning strikes: ~20,000

Imagine all of the sharks in the world fused into a towering monstrosity of reaping jaws, insatiable bloodlust, and scratchy skin. Now imagine that there are a thousand of them.

That is how deadly lightning is.

Thank you. Derp.

edited 13th Jul '12 1:08:20 PM by Muramasan13

ITYM one thousand. Anyway, that many people killed by lightning?

Jeeze. Canadian poor people are rich.

I think on my list of why Canada is awesome, that goes just under Nathan Fillion.

We should probably measure the number of awesome Canadian sci-fi actors in American shows :P

I was actually looking a lot at household incomes from two different sources and I'm a little confused as to how OECD comes up with their numbers, if someone knows?

Here's what I mean:

Median Household Income (based on my own internet skillz and 2010 numbers)

• Canada: $69 860 CAD = $68 820 USD
• United States: $49 445 USD
• Sweden: $325 000 SEK = $46 208 USD

The Swedish number is actually much lower than reality because I could only find median individual income, and the income is solely from work (doesn't include government transfers and so on).

For a different Swedish number, median household after-tax:

• 225 000 SEK = 31 990 USD

From OECD (2006 numbers)

• United States: $31 111 USD
• Canada: $25 363 USD
• Sweden: $22 889 USD

These two sets of numbers don't seem to have any obvious relation to each other except that OECD thinks Americans are rich, but the actual raw numbers indicate Americans are not that rich.

edited 13th Jul '12 12:17:20 PM by breadloaf

Seventy-eight percent of people are unsure what to do in hypothetical situations.

86.567298% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Coding:

15 - 50 bugs per 1000 lines of code, industrial average

Fun fact: 74% of statistics are made up on the spur of the moment.

& While the trend of a majority of statistics simply being made up continues, more recent studies place the actual amount closer to 83%.