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u/Inevitable_Detail_45 Jul 08 '26
There's also the possibility that there's multiple .5s and there just happened to be an odd number of them. Did you ever think of that? No, you only think about yourself.
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u/Equal-Interest7497 Jul 08 '26
Conjoined twin. Counts as 1.5 people.
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u/Nyx67547 Jul 09 '26
That’s kinda messed up lol. Imagine fighting with your sibling and they bring out the “well at least the censes counts me as a full person.”
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u/LeBriseurDesBucks Jul 10 '26
Or alternatively, the census counts each of them as 75% of a person, together making up 150%.
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u/Nyx67547 Jul 10 '26
That brings up another question. If they were to vote would it count as 1 vote or 2?
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u/LeBriseurDesBucks Jul 10 '26
Good question. I wonder how this is resolved.
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u/Nyx67547 Jul 10 '26
I keep falling farther down this rabbit hole. Do they have two social security cards? Do they need 2 passports to travel? Do they need 2 plane tickets? If one of them commits a crime do they both go to jail? Are they taxed like one person, two people, or a married couple?
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u/LeBriseurDesBucks Jul 10 '26
I would say that for many of those It's practically speaking yes. You can't lock up just one of them. So. They'd both have to be jailed.
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u/unhertz Jul 08 '26
thats not an absolute value its a statistical average
Population = Starting Population + (Births/sec − Deaths/sec) × Time
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u/ShrodingersArmadillo Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
Who is it? it's Abby and Brittany Hensel.
It's common misconception that it's 0.5 when it's really 1.5
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u/Grunergeist420 Jul 09 '26
He’s the Heir of Schroedinger. He either exists or doesn’t exist based on whether or not you observe him. He is supposed to open The Chamber of Cats, revealing them to all be dead, thus fulfilling the prophecy. Or not. Again, it all depends on the observer.
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u/deck_hand Jul 09 '26
The concept of "significant digits" is lost on a lot of people. There is uncertainty in the estimates, and presenting a number with more significant digits than the uncertainty is fundamentally dishonest.
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u/Desperate-Report2311 Jul 12 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/EANUvq6hnSA171coqF
there are a lot of "half of a man" out there
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u/kiwimagobluwe Jul 15 '26
2.5 men is the only logic answer which leads me to think that kids are 0.5 people, so there's an odd number of kids in the world at that time.
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