1 in 10
If you meet someone on the street, about one out of ten times, that person will be:
- left-handed
- single
- gay
- African-American
- retired
- Hispanic/Latino
- foreign-born
- a single parent
- poor
or
- non-religious
Of course, many people you meet will be more than one of those things. Some people you meet will be none of those things.
My score is 3 (left-handed, foreign-born, and non-religious). What’s yours?
(Sources: left-handed source, gay source, single/single parent source, religion source, all other facts source. I rounded some of these statistics ranging between 9% and 14% to be 10%. Some of these figures, especially the homosexual data, are in dispute.)
June 20th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I’m only a 1. So sad.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
How do you define “poor”?
June 20th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
sigh. only two. shared with you, though, so i’m in good company. Lefty and a Humanist/Athiest [non-religious].
I think there’s more of us then admit it. I’ve frequently caught right handed people making the cross sign with their left hand…. a dead giveaway…
June 20th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Hi Anonymous person: I used “poor” as shorthand for “living below the poverty line,” which, per this page, stood at 12.7% in 2004.
June 21st, 2008 at 9:12 am
Slacy and Geoff, don’t be sad! Higher scores aren’t necessarily better — unless you *want* to be poor or a single parent.
June 21st, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I did not know you are a “lefty”. So am I!
July 15th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
I’m a 3. single, non-religious, single parent.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:21 am
I’m a 0!