These are the stats of our lives

I love data. I don't know if I make that clear enough here on the blog, but I always am thinking about how to quantify things, from the macro ("how much money the average american spends on Christmas gifts") to the micro ("how much money to I spend on snacks a year"). I track everything and regularly do minor analyses on the (admittedly) stupidest things. That's why I loved this slideshow from the week on the stats of our lives. Here are my favorite stats from the article:

• #4 - 19, the number of times a day men have sexual thoughts (remember folks, this is an AVERAGE)
• #5 - 4.7, the estimated degrees of separation by which everyone in the world is actually separated based on 721 million facebook users.
• #7 - 2.4/3.4, the average number of lbs that college freshmen men and women gain in their first year, respectively.

Ed

Ed enjoys all forms of entertainment and has an unnatural love for quantitative methodology. He operates out of a basement in Northern Virginia (@edomaniac).

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