Plausible Statistics
Improbable information from unknown sources
Number of atoms known to be stolen from US weapons laboratories by Chinese
spies -- 10,000,000,000,000
Percentage of Norwegians who wear shoes that, in truth, do not fit them
-- 4
Percentage of New Zealanders who wear shoes that, in truth, do not fit
them -- 4
Percentage of Namibians who wear shoes that, in truth, do not fit them
-- 4
Percentage of scientists who wear shoes that do not fit them -- 24
Fraction of those scientists who do it for fashion reasons -- 0
Number of college presidents who habitually sign their names upside down
-- 1
Number of jump ropes owned by Albert Einstein in 1950 -- 3
Percentage of statistic that are bogus (worldwide)-- 62
Percentage of test tubes that survived a fall (from an airplane) of 3 kilometers on June 30 of last year, only to be crushed by the foot of a neglectful policeman -- 17
This article first appeared in the March/April 2000 issue (vol. 6, no. 2) of Annals of Improbable Research (AIR).
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