How does the Guinness Book go about getting its statistics?
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People usually send it into them.\n\nThey don't do much searching any more.
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Ha! Trial and error.\n\nUse a spreadsheet.
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Several world records that were once included in Guiness have been removed for ethical reasons. By publishing world records in a category, the book may encourage others to try to beat that record, even at the expense of their own health and safety. For example, following publication of a "heaviest cat" record, many cat owners overfed their pets beyond the bounds of what was healthy, so entries such as these were removed. Likewise, records related to dangerous stunts are often not published, for example those closely related to freediving. The Guinness Book also dropped records within their "eating and drinking records" section of Human Achievements in 1991 due to concerns that potential competitors could do harm to themselves and expose the publisher to potential litigation. These changes included the removal of all liquor, wine and Beer Drinking Records and other unusual records for consuming such unlikely things as bicycles and trees.\n\nSmiddy has been working on getting them to include "Most irritating smirk", but do you thing those guys would take Smiddy seriously? Of course they thought he was being sarcastic again. Guess Smiddy will go and consume 1,200 Twinkies and 12 dozen Super Big Gulps.
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http://www.statcounter.com - just get the html version, not the javascript version. Javascript is better, but myspace doesn't allow it. The html version is pretty good, about 90% gets recorded.
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try your national statistics office
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Here from the horses mouth so to speak.  Stats Can is the leading Canadian authority on statistics and here is their page on it for teachers.  \n\nThis should answer any questions you have.
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Wikipedia reveals all.\n\nThe third link lists online statistics textbooks.  The Statistics Homepage is especially good.
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The World Champion largest number, listed in the last Guinness Book of Records is an upper bound, derived by R. L. Graham, from a problem in a part of combinatorics called Ramsey theory.\nGraham's number cannot be expressed using the conventional notation of powers, and powers of powers. If all the material in the universe were turned into pen and ink it would not be enough to write the number down. Consequently, this special notation, devised by Donald Knuth is necessary.\n\nClick on link to see it
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statbrain.com will tell you how many
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http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=54338
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You need to know the rate at which the birds poop (i.e. how often do poops fall per hour).  You also need to know the number of people who get crapped on per hour.  Once you know this, you could probably use the Poisson distribution to provide a probability.
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In one of these. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=43540
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Specifically: press STAT, then ENTER. This takes you to the lists. Put in a value and press enter, and continue until all your values are entered into the list. \nThen press STAT again. This time use the arrow key to move to CALC, then press 1-Var Stats. Then press 2nd then watever list you entered the data into. List one would be 2nd then 1 key, list two is 2nd and 2 key. L1, L2, L3 L4 L5 and L6 all have their own key. \n\nPress enter. The first number is x bar, or the mean. The SD, standard deviation is Sx. \n\nHope that helps
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Usually when  you pull a sample, you know the size of the sample you pulled.  Otherwise, how would you calculate any of the test statistics much less the margin of error?
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No, statistics from 2005 don't appear to be available yet. Use the site linked below to contact people who can help you find the latest information.
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To calculate by hand, you need to know the total number of months (n), which is 24.  Then you need the total number of accidents, which is 1x0+2x1+5x2+7x3+6x4+3x5 or 72.  Then find the mean number of accidents per month, 72/24 = 3.  Tis is called x bar (its symbol is x with a bar over it).\n\nNext you have to subtract each number of accidents from x bar, square this difference, and multiply it by the number of months that had that many accidents.\n\n(0-3)^2 = 9 x 1 = 9\n(1-3)^2 = 4 x 2 = 8\n(2-3)^2 = 1 x 5 = 5\n etc.\n\nAdd up all the answers, and divide it by 24.  This is called the variance.\n\nFinally, take the square root of the variance.  That is the standard deviation.\n\nMany times statisticians deduct one from the total when calculating population standard deviation.  That would be done if not all of the data is in your chart.  Based on the fact that x bar came out exactly 3 using n = 24, I bet that's the number your book intended for you to use.  Hope that helps!
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it forms your database/statistics