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[-] [email protected] 117 points 1 month ago

I've already been born so my odds should be updated.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

This is actually percent of each population that believes in reincarnation

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[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago

It’s not zero for Antarctica, just nearly zero. 11 people have been born in Antarctica. Mostly argentinians but also a couple chileans.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

Okay and that would still be less than 0.00% which is the significant figures on the chart. They can't just put 0.01.because 11 out 8 billion people were born there.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They could have put <0.01 but either way there's no real society/culture there to bwgin with. I personally wouldn't have even included it on the map.

I will say if they were included on education stats, they would probably top all global charts.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's a good reminder though that 0.0% doesn't have to equal 0

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And lets not get into the nationality thing there

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

New Zealand’s gone missing again, I’m assuming it’s lumped in with Australia.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

No it means there is zero percent chance of New Zealand

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

New Zealand is in stealth mode. We keep it off the maps so trump doesn't know it exists and leaves it alone

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's crazy they did include a bit of Russia near Alaska and also bothered to add the Galapagos (where nobody lives) but omitted NZ

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

No chance of being born in New Zealand I see

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

It's more proof it doesn't exist.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remember everyone: 100.00% does not mean all, and 0.00% does not mean none, just like 50.00% does not mean exactly half. They all are accurate to 0.005% points.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

So there's a chance I'll be born in Antarctica?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

You, no. Some other guy, maybe.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

IIRC Argentina facilitated a few births on the outlying islands to make a point. Usually kids are avoided in such a harsh and precarious place, though.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Maps without New Zealand

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

So me being born in Australia was like getting a mythic prize in a loot crate.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

With all the scientists and cruises that tour around Antarctica, I am not convinced that the chances of being born there are a flat 0. It might be less than 1% but no way it's 0.

At least 11 babies have been born in Antarctica.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

0.0000001375%!

(This is based solely on roughly how many people exist, not birth rates, because I ain't doing the real math for what is ultimately a rounding error)

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

I'm not so sure I would trust any statistics from a map that's missing New Zealand.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Do you come from a land of plenty?

Statistically, no.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Technically Antarctica isn't 0. There's a civilian colony and at least one baby has been born there.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Eh it rounds down at that point

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

11 people were born there. That's a ~0.00000000133649348822 chance. Small but not impossible.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Yet Americans act like they're 90% of the world and no one and nothing outside the US matters.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I think those chances vary a lot based on where your parents live.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I misread this as "Chances of being born in each Connecticut" and while I know humans are fond of naming places after existing places, I'd be surprised if every continent has a place officially named Connecticut

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Antarctica doesn't have one apparently

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Y'all probably already knew about the Valeriepieris circle, I guess.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

How about chances of being born in the ocean, or even on this planet?

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What time frame does this represent?

Births in 2025 might be majority subsaharan Africa.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Can't believe I used up all my luck for that

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Fellow Antarctican?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Ok, now make this but per land area.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why is Europe a continent but not Russia and its culturally similar bordering countries?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Racism, mostly.

Continents are a human convention, not an objective fact of reality.

The 7 continent model most English speakers learn is one convention.

Personally I prefer a 6 continent model that combines Europe and Asia into Eurasia.

Latin Americans use a 6 continent model that merges North and South America into "America". Personally I think this is silly because there's no rational basis to merge those and not merge Afro-Eurasia into one mega-continent.

Which you could do. A 4 continent model with Afro-Eurasia, America, Antarctica, and Oceania.

There are also completely distinct ways of deciding continents. The conventional ones above are mostly "large contiguous landmasses", with a bit of a cultural overlay.

You could do a much more heavily culturally-inspired take, which would make Arabia a distinct continent, and the Indian subcontinent, and probably separate Northern, Eastern, and Southern Africa into at least 3 continents.

Another completely different way of defining it is, of course, tectonic plates.

And the final one I'll mention is biogeographic realms which, among other things, moves the split between Oceania and Asia from the border between PNG and Indonesia to (probably—there are a few alternatives) the Wallace Line between Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia.

None of these is really more correct than the others in any objective sense. It's just human convention.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

In France 5 are taught.

America, Oceania, Europe, Asia, Africa

Yeah. Continent conventions are political, not geographical.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Antarctica: am I nothing to you?

(In fairness, there is an argument to be made—though personally I disagree with it—that Antarctica is an archipelago underneath the ice, and shouldn't be a continent for that reason.)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That’s the thing, French schools teach them as political regions, so Antarctica isn’t really mentioned since there aren’t large populations or nation states solely based thete.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This person maps.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Most of Russia is in Asia. A lot of the more visible people are in Europe. But there's plenty of groups living in the east. Man, sometimes I just think to myself, "someone's ancestors chose to live there". Idk which route they took to get to Siberia, but either way, they went through some pretty good spots and went, "nah, I'll go to the icy desert" lol

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia?wprov=sfla1 mostly for historical reasons, but many consider Europe and Asia a single continent

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Russia is part of Asia. Reasons include geography and the lasting impact of Mongol rule over the Russians. We witness the effects still today.

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