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

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] zepheriths@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

That's world stats because I wasn't sure what it was counting. The US is 827k

[–] spooksboots@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] zepheriths@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention one everyday would be 365 out of 400 every year. Clearly, ~90% of the population isn't getting shot every year.

[–] Ser_Salty@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Shot doesn't mean dead and one person can receive multiple gunshot wounds in a year.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

There's just one poor unlucky guy who drives the average up. Keeps surviving though

[–] zepheriths@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

That still means everyone in the US is shot in just over a year. That's not right

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Still, 90% of the population isn't getting shot every year and a couple of people aren't going to make up for it with multiple gunshot wounds.

That being said, whatever the real percentage is, it's still too high

[–] Ser_Salty@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh, yes, 1 in 400 is still the wrong proportion, but I guess you can't say a quarter of a person is shot every 8 months or whatever it would be, if you're just trying to make a quick and concise point.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then why choose 400 people, or why include the shooting stat once they went with 400? The number would very much round down to zero, and the post says at least 1 person per day which means that's the lower bound

[–] Ser_Salty@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

How would I know? I didn't make the post. What if they based it off of a very specific day where a lot of people got shot?

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

By my math, at this scale it would be one person shot roughly every 7 years. That's still kinda scary.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 10 months ago

Only 332 million people in the US 😉

[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

It's about the USA.