X-Message-Number: 15788 From: Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 21:23:15 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #15772 - #15778 In a message dated 3/2/01 2:01:34 AM Pacific Standard Time, writes: << If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would read something like the following: There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 89 would be heterosexual 11 would be homosexual 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States. 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer >> I saw that 'research' a few months ago, and the college education claim is plain wrong. If there are 6 billion people in the world, then by your estimates, 1 college education would come out to 60 million people (1%). Well, in the United States alone, over 70 million people are alive in this country have had some college education (meaning one year or more, of post-high education over the past 40 years) Add 70 million more from Europe, 50 million from Russia, Ukraine (the former Soviet Union), 80 million from China and India, 50 million more from Indonesia, etc., 30 million from Japan, and you get closer to 4% of the world's population. Albeit a small amount, but you have to remember that half of the world's population is not yet at college age. So, in terms of the population over 18 (when college education usually starts), the figure is probably closer to 8% of the adult population. 8% is a hell of a lot more than 1%. Let's just keep the facts straight! Ed Reifman Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15788