What are the Odds?

Crazy Odds...

What are the odds that...

• A person between the age of 18 and 29 does NOT read a newspaper regularly: 3 to 1
• A first marriage will survive without separation or divorce for 15 years: 1.3 to 1
• A celebrity marriage will last a lifetime: 3 to 1
• Being born a twin in North America: 90 to 1
• Being on plane with a drunken pilot: 117 to 1
• Having your identity stolen: 200 to 1
• Dating a millionaire: 215 to 1
• Dating a supermodel: 88,000 to 1
• Writing a New York Times best seller: 220 to 1
• Finding out your child is a genius: 250 to 1
• Catching a ball at a major league ballgame: 563 to 1
• Becoming a pro athlete: 22,000 to 1
• Finding a four-leaf clover on first try: 10,000 to 1
• Person in the military winning the Medal of Honor: 11,000 to 1
• Winning an Academy Award: 11,500 to 1
• Striking it rich on Antiques Roadshow: 60,000 to 1
• Getting a royal flush in poker on first five cards dealt: 649,740 to 1
• Spotting a UFO today: 3,000,000 to 1
• Becoming president: 10,000,000 to 1
• Winning the California lottery: 13,000,000 to 1
• Becoming a saint: 20,000,000 to 1
• An American home having at least one container of ice cream in the freezer: 9 in 10
  
  

  

Gimme a Sporting Chance

• Sports fans that have skipped work or school to go to a game: 51%
• Sports fans that lied about skipping work or school to go to a game: 19%
• People that have snuck into a stadium without paying: 5%
• People that have prayed to God for their team to win: 58%
• People that have cheered when a member of the opposing team was injured: 38%
• Have painted their face team colors: 75%
• People who have had a game on while having sex: 22%
• Number of jumps US skydivers made in 2007: 2,159,793
• Number of safe US skydive jumps resulting in injury in 2007: 821
• Number of safe US skydive jumps resulting in death in 2007: 18
• An amateur golfer making a hole in 1: 12,500 to 1
• A professional golfer making a hole in 1: 2,500 to 1
• There is an urban legend of a golfer that made 3 consecutive par 3 holes in 1.
  The odds of that happening are: 156,250,000 to 1
• Being dealt a royal flush in your first 5 poker cards are: 649,739 to 1
• Being dealt a straight flush in your first 5 poker cards are: 72,192 to 1
• Being dealt a four of a kind in your first 5 poker cards are: 4,164 to 1
• Being dealt a full house in your first 5 poker cards are: 693 to 1
• Being dealt a flush in your first 5 poker cards are: 508 to 1
• Being dealt a straight in your first 5 poker cards are: 254 to 1
  
  

  

Odds of Smarts...

• 86% of women aged 25 and older completed high school
• 85% of men aged 25 and older completed high school.
• 32% of women aged 25-29 attained a bachelor's degree or higher
• 25% of men aged 25-29 attained a bachelor's degree or higher
• 69% of adults can name the current US vice president
• 93% of adults could identify Arnold Schwarzenegger
• 68% of Americans have a library card. (73% of women and 62% of men)
• 92% of Americans say their public library is an important resource
• 25.5% of high school students know that the Constitution was written in Philadelphia
• 75.2% of high school students know the name of the city with the zip code 90210
• 21.2% of high school students know that in the U.S. Senate each state has two senators
• 71.2% of high school students know that www are the first three letters of almost all web site addresses
• 35.5% of high school students know the first three words of the Constitution
• 58.3% of high school students identified Bill Gates as the founder of Microsoft
• 59.2% of high school students could name the three stooges
  
  

  

Odds of Pain...

What are the odds that...

• An American adult does not want to live to age 120 under any circumstances: 3 to 2
• Injury from fireworks: 19,556 to 1
• Injury from shaving: 6,585 to 1
• Injury from using a chain saw: 4,464 to 1
• Meteor landing on your house: 182,138,880,000,000 to 1
• Being considered possessed by Satan:7,000 to 1
• Injury from mowing the lawn: 3,623 to 1
• Getting hemorrhoids: 25 to 1
• Being audited by the IRS: 175 to 1
  
  

  

Odds of Disease...

What is the chance of...

• Getting arthritis: 1 in 7
• Suffering from asthma or allergy diseases: 1 in 6
• Getting the flu this year: 1 in 10
• Contracting the human version of mad cow disease: 1 in 40,000,000
• Having a stroke: 1 in 6
• American man developing cancer in his lifetime: 1 in 2
• American woman developing cancer in her lifetime: 1 in 3
• Getting prostate cancer: 1 in 6
• Getting breast cancer: 1 in 9
• Getting colon / rectal cancer: 1 in 26
• Beating pancreatic or liver cancer: 1 in 9
• Beating thyroid or testicular cancer: 9 in 10
• American man developing cancer in his lifetime: 1 in 2
• American woman developing cancer in her lifetime: 1 in 3
• Getting prostate cancer: 1 in 6
• Getting breast cancer: 1 in 9
• Getting colon / rectal cancer: 1 in 26
• Beating pancreatic or liver cancer: 1 in 9
• Beating thyroid or testicular cancer: 9 in 10
  
  

  

Odds of Cheating Death...

What are the odds of...

• Fatally slipping in bath or shower: 2,232 to 1
• Drowning in a bathtub: 685,000 to 1
• Being killed on a 5-mile bus trip: 500,000,000 to 1
• Being killed sometime in the next year in any sort of transportation accident: 77 to 1
• Being killed in any sort of non-transportation accident: 69 to 1
• Being struck by lightning: 576,000 to 1
• Being killed by lightning: 2,320,000 to 1
• Being murdered: 18,000 to 1
• Getting away with murder: 2 to 1
• Being the victim of serious crime in your lifetime: 20 to 1
• Dying from any kind of injury during the next year: 1,820 to 1
• Dying from intentional self-harm: 9,380 to 1
• Dying from an assault: 16,421 to 1
• Dying from a car accident: 18,585 to 1
• Dying from any kind of fall: 20,666 to 1
• Dying from accidental drowning: 79,065 to 1
• Dying from exposure to smoke, fire, and flames: 81,524 to 1
• Dying in an explosion: 107,787 to 1
• Earth will experience a collision with an asteroid in the next 100 years: 5,000 to 1
• Dying in such a collision: 20,000 to 1
• Dying from forces of nature (heat, cold, lightning, earthquake, flood): 225,107 to 1
• Dying in an airplane accident: 354,319 to 1
• Dying from choking on food: 370,035 to 1
• Dying in a terrorist attack while visiting a foreign country: 650,000 to 1
• Dying in a fireworks accident: 1,000,000 to 1
• Dying from overexertion, travel or privation: 1,428,377 to 1
• Dying from food poisoning: 3,000,000 to 1
• Dying from legal execution: 3,441,325 to 1
• Dying from contact with hot tap water: 5,005,564 to 1
• Dying from parts falling off an airplane: 10,000,000 to 1
• Dying from ignition or melting of nightwear: 30,589,556 to 1
• Dying from contact with a venomous animal or plant: 3,441,325 to 1
• Dying from being bitten by a dog: 700,000 to 1
• Dying from being bitten or struck by mammals (other than dogs or humans): 4,235,477 to 1
• Dying from a mountain lion attack in California: 32,000,000 to 1
• Dying from a shark attack: 300,000,000 to 1
• Dying from heart disease: 2 to 1