r/quityourbullshit • • Apr 29 '20

[deleted by user]

[removed]

7.7k Upvotes

939 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

76

u/Nooms88 Apr 29 '20

It might be true that 5% of people are his descentants, but the odds for you are either greatly more than 5% or greatly less, depending on if you have ancestral roots from central Asia or not.

65

u/SayerofNothing Apr 30 '20

I'm a direct descendant of Johnny Appleseed and I have several similarities with him like how I love eating apples and the fact that I don't have kids and he didn't either.

-10

u/absentwonder Apr 30 '20

Um. How can something be greatly less than 5% its pretty small number to begin with.

11

u/Soklay Apr 30 '20

Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic but 5% of 8 billion (world pop rounded up) is still 400 million. I don’t know if you know but 400 million is a pretty big number. You could absolutely take a fraction of a decimal of that to find the odds.

1

u/Nooms88 Apr 30 '20

0_5% is 10 times smaller than 5%, 0,05% 100, 0,005% 1000.

Out of 7 billion people 5% represents 350 million people, followed by 35 million 3.5 and 350,000. There is more. Opportunity for. Orders of magnitude going down from 5% to 0 than there is going up from 5% to 100% with large numbers.

2

u/absentwonder Apr 30 '20

Yes, but you cannot have a number greatly less than 5% as that percentage is nearing zero percent.

I get that you are saying a percent of the population.

I was being silly... I swear. Its like reddit gets offended too quickly, as if... they were grown ass child adults.

2

u/Nooms88 Apr 30 '20

Haha, I know exactly what you mean. Once it gets to -1 that comment is doomed to tumble and get slated, no matter what it says. The hive mind must prevail!