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[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 117 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is actually percent of each population that believes in reincarnation

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[–] teft@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] zelgo@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And lets not get into the nationality thing there

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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No it means there is zero percent chance of New Zealand

[–] Gorge@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

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

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week 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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No chance of being born in New Zealand I see

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

It's more proof it doesn't exist.

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] match@pawb.social 19 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

[–] matti@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You, no. Some other guy, maybe.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week 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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[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 25 points 1 week ago

Maps without New Zealand

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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)

[–] nevetsg@aussie.zone 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Do you come from a land of plenty?

Statistically, no.

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[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] Soulg@ani.social 24 points 1 week ago

Eh it rounds down at that point

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 23 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How can an island be split between two continents?

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Same way Russia can be split in two continents I suppose.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

Antarctica doesn't have one apparently

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Penguins: well, we're going extinct then...

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[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Fellow Antarctican?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

What time frame does this represent?

Births in 2025 might be majority subsaharan Africa.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Ok, now make this but per land area.

[–] iz_ok@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

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

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In France 5 are taught.

America, Oceania, Europe, Asia, Africa

Yeah. Continent conventions are political, not geographical.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.)

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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 15 points 1 week 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

[–] zelgo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

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

[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week 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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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Chances of this being the most useless infographic to ayone: 94%

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