History Main / DisturbingStatistic

->'''Nosh''': Our armada ships...have a 1-in-600 chance of catastrophic impact anytime we pinch space.\\
'''Skitter''': I...I'm gonna ''die in space''.\\
'''Fernando''': Nosh, that number is a lie, spread by the royal family. It's not 1-in-600...it's ''1-in-400''...we lose five or six ships every week.\\

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-->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': The device is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in [[AC:SUBJECT_HOMETOWN_HERE]].

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--> '''Batman:''' But that will cost countless lives!
--> '''Ra's al Ghul:''' Actually, Detective, we ''have'' counted: [[LudicrousPrecision Two billion, fifty-six million, nine hundred and eighty-six thousand!]]

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* A joke (with many variants) goes something like this: two national leaders (let's say, the top political guy and the top military guy) are sitting in a diner, planning a war. They decide to kill a million of <insert enemy nation here> citizens, and a completely unrelated bicycle repairman/pizza delivery driver/clown. They pitch this idea to a random bystander who is shocked to hear that they would go out of their way to kill the unrelated civilian. One leader turns to the other and says, "see, I told you [[AMillionIsAStatistic no one would care about killing the million enemy citizens]]."

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* ''{{Naruto}}'': When preparing to operate on Rock Lee, Tsunade discovers that, at best, he only has a 50% chance of surviving if he goes through with it. The anime has her double-checking the figures, and increasing it to 58% based on his determination.

* ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'': Luke's chances of survival in the Hoth wastelands during an ice storm are 725 to 1.

* The StarWarsExpandedUniverse has Luke being disturbed when he learns over a million people were on the Death Star.

* In TheDresdenFiles book ''Literature/DeadBeat'', Harry explains to someone just introduced to TheMasquerade that 1 in 355 people are reported missing each year, "the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators."

* ''AlphaProtocol'' keeps track of how many people you've knocked out and killed without actually tracking the number. Knocked out people are tracked by medical costs, while killed people are tracked by [[WhatTheHellHero how many orphans you've created]]. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything Killing people in poorer countries creates more orphans, while knocking out people in richer countries creates bigger medical bills.]]

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--> [Book starts to smile]

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-->'''[=GLaDOS=]''': The device is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in [SUBJECT_HOMETOWN_HERE].

--> '''Ra's al Ghul:''' Actually, Detective, we ''have'' counted: [[LudicrousPrecision Two billion, fifty-six million, nine hundred and eighty-six thousand! ]]

->'''Nosh''': Our armada ships...have a 1-in-600 chance of catastrophic impact anytime we pinch space.
->'''Skitter''': I...I'm gonna ''die in space''.
->'''Fernando''': Nosh, that number is a lie, spread by the royal family. It's not 1-in-600...it's ''1-in-400''...we lose five or six ships every week.
->'''Skitter''': [''slow clap''] Wonderful. Awesome. Let's all thank Fernando for clearin' up the math, there.

* In ''AttackOnTitan'', the Survey Corps recruits are told that there is a 50% chance that they'll die on their first journey, among other similarly grim figures about the casualties humanity takes while fighting the Titans, including 90% losses to clear a path that was later lost.

* ''{{Naruto}}'': When preparing to operate on Rock Lee, Tsunade discovers that, at best, he only has a 50% chance of surviving if he goes through with it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Prototupte}}'': This quote;

** Han's chances of navigating the asteroid field without being destroyed are 6,720 to 1.

-->'''Sonny''': 2880 steps, detective.

For [[{{Squick}} obvious]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation reasons]], true RealLife examples aren't permitted on this page.

-->'''River:''' We'll freeze to death first.

--> '''Ra's al Ghul:''' Actually, Detective, we ''have'' counted: Two billion, fifty-six million, nine hundred and eighty-six thousand!

* [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries R'as al Ghul]] doesn't even blink as he drops one of these on Batman:

* A joke (with many variants) goes something like this: two national leaders (let's say, the top political guy and the top military guy) are sitting in a diner, planning a war. They decide to kill a million of <insert enemy nation here> citizens, and a completely unrelated bicycle repairman/pizza delivery driver/clown. They decide to pitch this idea to a random bystander who is shocked to hear that they would go out of their way to kill the unrelated civilian. One leader turns to the other and says, "see, I told you [[AMillionIsAStatistic no one would care about killing the million enemy citizens]]."

A joke (with many variants) goes something like this: two national leaders (let's say, the top political guy and the top military guy) are sitting in a diner, planning a war. They decide to kill a million of <insert enemy nation here> citizens, and a completely unrelated bicycle repairman/pizza delivery driver/clown. They decide to pitch this idea to a random bystander who is shocked to hear that they would go out of their way to kill the unrelated civilian. One leader turns to the other and says, "see, I told you [[AMillionIsAStatistic no one would care about killing the million enemy citizens]]."

Can overlap with, but is not to be confused with NeverTellMeTheOdds, which is when a character succeeds after hearing the odds are stacked against them.

* The Shi Emperor in ''{Videogame/Fallout 2}'' notes that the player has a 15% chance of succeeding.

* The Shi Emperor in ''{Fallout 2}'' notes that the player has a 15% chance of succeeding.

* The Shi Emperor in ''Fallout2'' notes that the player has a 15% chance of succeeding.

* ''{{Videogame/Prototype}}'': "X people are dying every hour" or something similar is used. WikiMagic will probably provide the quote.
** [[MagicMisfire ... Or not.]]

* The StarWarsExpandedUniverse has Luke being disturbed when he learns [[OverNineThousand over a million]] people were on the Death Star.