Sunday, September 23, 2007

Anybody want to guess?

Anyone want to guess what the following top 10 list is about. Take a long look at the countries and the statistics and make a guess.

#1 South Africa: 0.719782 per 1,000 people
#2 Colombia: 0.509801 per 1,000 people
#3 Thailand: 0.312093 per 1,000 people
#4 Zimbabwe: 0.0491736 per 1,000 people
#5 Mexico: 0.0337938 per 1,000 people
#6 Belarus: 0.0321359 per 1,000 people
#7 Costa Rica: 0.0313745 per 1,000 people
#8 United States: 0.0279271 per 1,000 people
#9 Uruguay: 0.0245902 per 1,000 people
#10 Lithuania: 0.0230748 per 1,000 people

Follow up post to explain in a few days.

PEACE DUDE!

5 comments:

Kim Ayres said...

My guess is millionaires

Or tons of coffee drunk

Tom said...

Percentage of people who still think Britney Spears or Paris Hilton are newsworthy topics?

Shannon @ Gabi's World said...

Hmmmm...don't know but now I'm curious. I like Tom's theory though I think the numbers are a bit high for that.

Archie said...

I couldn't wait - had to google it. Nice to know we're such a 'civilized' country.

Jeff said...

Well I see Archie cheated.....

The answer is countries with the highest rate per capita of firearm related murders.

I thought it was interesting.

Peace