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by kornish 4036 days ago
Just to clarify, keslag was joking.
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corin_ 4036 days ago
Well it was a joke but also a numerically accurate joke - estimates are that roughly 6% of all humans ever born are alive today. See for example http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/world-population-ex... or http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleH...
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XorNot 4036 days ago
Also contains an important lesson about how statistics mislead: 6% doesn't imply an even distribution within the sample!
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