I'm a Survivor

In statistical stuff most people are taught to pay attention to Survivorship bias which is an error done mostly in an unconscious way (like you compare youself only to a select few neighbors forgetting the fact that only a select few could actually afford housing in that zip code of yours).It takes concrete empricial data or extremely good math to remove that bias when making comparisions.

Here's an interesting factoid that has made its share of rounds on the net:

If it were possible to reduce the population of the entire world to 100 inhabitants, maintaining the proportions of people which currently exist in the world, it would be made up as follows:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 Americans (North, Central and South)

8 Africans

52 would be women

48 men

70 non-white

30 white

89 would be heterosexual

11 homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the world’s wealth

80 would dwell in inhabitable housing

50 would suffer from malnutrition

1 would have a computer

1 (yes, just one) would have a university degree

And consider this: if you are more healthy than sick, you are luckier than a million people who will not see next week. If you never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of prison, the agony of torture, the pain of hunger, you are luckier than 500 million of the world’s inhabitants.

If you have food in the fridge, clothes in your closet, a roof over your head, a place to sleep, then consider yourself richer than 75% of the world’s inhabitants.

If you have money in the bank, a wallet or some loose change lying around somewhere, consider yourself among those with the best quality of life in the world.

Tell me arent you feeling lucky?