SUBSTANTIATED TRUE FACTS
What are the Odds? #1
Home |
The Odds |
Percentages |
The World |
The United States |
Celebrities |
Business
Nature |
Government |
People |
Human Body
The odds are 1 out of 2,500 (.04%) that you're on a waiting list for a viable organ for a transplant procedure. - Discover Magazine, 5/12
The odds are 1 out of 50 (2%) that you're in jail if you're an American. - The Week Magazine, 4/6/12
The odds are 1 out of 1,500,000 (.0000067%) that you will die because of an allergy to food this year. - Discover Magazine, 5/12
The odds are over 1 out of 4 (27%) that Americans who keep sizable amounts of cash at home hide it in the freezer. - The Week Magazine, 4/27/12
The odds are 1 out of 12 (8%) that you are colorblind, if you're a man. - San Diego Union-Tribune, 4/10/12
The odds are 1 out of 14 (7%) that you claim that you "rarely" or "never" bathe. - San Diego Union-Tribune, 5/22/12
The odds are over 1 out of 3 (34%) that if you were divorced in 2011, the word "Facebook" is somewhere in the divorce filing. - The Week Magazine, 6/1/12
The odds are 3 out of 10 (30%) that you've already been arrested at least once if you're a 23-year-old American. - Yahoo! News, 12/19/11
The odds are 1 out of 5 (20%) that you will have a car crash within the first year of driving (if you are 16 years old). - USA Today, 3/2/05
The odds are 2 out of 3 (65%) that you cannot find Iraq on a map, if you are between age 18 to 24. - CNN.com, 5/4/06
The odds are 1 out of 83 (1.2%) that you are a millionaire. - The Week Magazine, 12/1/06
The odds are 1 out of 4 (25%) that you work at a job where you never get a paid day off. - Time Magazine, 7/2/07
The odds are 1 out of 7 (15%) that you have a tattoo. - The Week Magazine, 7/13/07
The odds are 1 out of 600 (0.167%) that you will die from cancer this year, so says the American Cancer Society. - Discover Magazine, 2/08
The odds are 1 out of 7 (14%) that you have replaced your land-line phone with your cell phone. - The Week Magazine, 12/26/08
The odds are 1 out of 7 (15%) that a U.S. teenager expects to die young. - Time Magazine, 7/13/09
(all facts assume the reader is an American)
