I don’t want to be that guy but 8 billion divided by 400 is 20 million. So to get a global average you would multiply the number here by 20 million… 20 million people are not shot every day
If that is the case than 827,000 people are shot every day in the US… That’s not right either.
It’s literally math for what they are saying when one person out of 400 is shot and it is scaled up to the US population. Even if it was rounded from .5 in a set of 400 that’s still over 400k
The actual number is 316 per day. Still a bad number but that is .1% of the number they have given
The number provided in the post is inaccurate to a real-world scale of US shootings. One person shot every seven years is instead accurate to real world data if the US population were scaled to 400 people.
Are you conflating the global population and US shots? I don’t trust the gun stats I found, so I left them out of my fact check in the other comments. Added sources for those and OP is pretty accurate overall.
I don’t want to be that guy but 8 billion divided by 400 is 20 million. So to get a global average you would multiply the number here by 20 million… 20 million people are not shot every day
This is not an argument about whether or not the stats are accurate but: I think they’re talking about the US, not the world.
Only 332 million people in the US 😉
Yep that’s why that number is probably wrong
If that is the case than 827,000 people are shot every day in the US… That’s not right either.
It’s literally math for what they are saying when one person out of 400 is shot and it is scaled up to the US population. Even if it was rounded from .5 in a set of 400 that’s still over 400k The actual number is 316 per day. Still a bad number but that is .1% of the number they have given
Not to mention one everyday would be 365 out of 400 every year. Clearly, ~90% of the population isn’t getting shot every year.
Shot doesn’t mean dead and one person can receive multiple gunshot wounds in a year.
That still means everyone in the US is shot in just over a year. That’s not right
There’s just one poor unlucky guy who drives the average up. Keeps surviving though
By my math, at this scale it would be one person shot roughly every 7 years. That’s still kinda scary.
That isn’t right. 1 in 400 means in 400 days everyone has been shot once
The number provided in the post is inaccurate to a real-world scale of US shootings. One person shot every seven years is instead accurate to real world data if the US population were scaled to 400 people.
Are you conflating the global population and US shots? I don’t trust the gun stats I found, so I left them out of my fact check in the other comments. Added sources for those and OP is pretty accurate overall.
That’s world stats because I wasn’t sure what it was counting. The US is 827k