How much of the population can juggle?
Jason Freidenfelds
Does anyone know what percentage of the population (U.S. or world) knows
how to juggle? By "juggle", I mean the ability to complete 6
consecutive catches of 3 balls in a cascade pattern. I recently
completed a campus-wide survey and found that 36% of Harvard students
can juggle, by the strict definition of "juggle".
I've also heard that physicists are more than 4 times as likely to
juggle as the general population. So whoever came up with that
statistic must have some idea what the general percentage is.
Thanks for your help!
--Jason
VivecaGard
In article <34BC0D7E...@fas.harvard.edu>, Jason Freidenfelds
<jfre...@fas.harvard.edu> writes:
>Does anyone know what percentage of the population (U.S. or world) knows
how
>to juggle?
Bernice Kanner in Are You Normal (no idea how to underline that book title)
says 1 in 4 men and 1 in 10 women. i only have a photocopy of the one page,
which has no source and no base population (i.e., US, world, whatever).
viveca
Brian
>Does anyone know what percentage of the population (U.S. or world) knows
>how to juggle?
Let's take a poll.
How many people here can juggle? Please reply to this post and we'll
find out how much of the population can!
Brian,
the GREAT statistician!
Borislav Deianov
Jason Freidenfelds <jfre...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> I've also heard that physicists are more than 4 times as likely to
> juggle as the general population. So whoever came up with that
> statistic must have some idea what the general percentage is.
I just want to mention that all four committee member of the Oxford
University juggling club last year were physicists. I'm not sure what
this means.
Borislav
'Little' Paul
Most of the active members in the aston Uni Club (ie the regular core of
members) areeither computer scientists or electrical engineers of some
kind, but then we don't have a physics course at Aston...
-Paul
.Sig puts his 4 quids worth in...
Neurofen
Oh Great Brian!!
Post a question like how many people on the JIS can juggle. Thats like asking
anyone if they can breathe - well almost!!
Mart - the corrupt official!!
Claire Little
'Little' Paul wrote:
>
>
> Most of the active members in the aston Uni Club (ie the regular core of
> members) areeither computer scientists or electrical engineers of some
> kind, but then we don't have a physics course at Aston...
>
> -Paul
> .Sig puts his 4 quids worth in...
You're right ! I was on the committee of the Loughborough Students
juggling club for 3 years and out of the other 8 people who were
committee with me (with a club that small its very easy to stay in
charge for more than one year), 5 were engineers of assorted varieties
and 3 were computer scientists. It just left me to be a librarian and
spoil the statistics.
Claire
Jennifer Lanski
Claire Little wrote:
It seems that a majority of people in our club are math or science
people, though not necessarily engineers or computer scientists. I
screw up the trend though, being an artist. Interesting, don't you
think, that Claire and I are the non-science people and also _happen_ to
be female. This is just a theory, but statistically there are more
males than females in the sciences, so if somehow science people are
more inclined to juggle, that could explain part of the gender imbalance
in juggling. Interestingly enough, our club has gone from predominantly
male to mainly female in the past year.
In response to the question of how much of the population can juggle
(and this is a ridiculous place to have a survey...), NOT ENOUGH. I
think the world would be a better place if everyone could juggle, imho.
-Jennifer
Ian Blackburn
Yeah, our club is overwhelmingly populated with white, middle-class, male
computer types in our 20s and 30s.
Maybe it's the analytical aspect -- "Let's see, how can I do this?" "Let's
see, how can we make this pattern work with five people?"
Just an idle theory.
>(and this is a ridiculous place to have a survey...),
I think he was joking. :)
-Ian
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jip
Jennifer Lanski wrote:
>
> Claire Little wrote:
>
> > > Most of the active members in the aston Uni Club
> > > (ie the regular core of members) areeither computer
> > > scientists or electrical engineers of some
> > > kind, but then we don't have a physics course at Aston...
> > >
>
> don't you think, that Claire and I are the non-science people
> and also _happen_ to be female.
> This is just a theory, but statistically there are more males
> than females in the sciences, so if somehow science people
> are more inclined to juggle, that could explain part of the
> gender imbalance in juggling.
>
I am a female who juggles and I'm going to studie astronomy next year,
but I want to become and illustrator. Am I the missing link :o)
Love
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'Little' Paul
Ian Blackburn wrote:
> Maybe it's the analytical aspect -- "Let's see, how can I do this?" "Let's
> see, how can we make this pattern work with five people?"
or theres the "I can almost do it with my right hand, lets try both
hands at once!"
or am I the only peorson who thinks that way and ends up looking _very_
stupid?
-Paul
.Sig tries both hands at once to start with
Simone Davalos
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, jip wrote:
> Jennifer Lanski wrote:
> >
> > Claire Little wrote:
> >
> > > > Most of the active members in the aston Uni Club
> > > > (ie the regular core of members) areeither computer
> > > > scientists or electrical engineers of some
> > > > kind, but then we don't have a physics course at Aston...
> > > >
> >
> > I screw up the trend though, being an artist. Interesting,
> > don't you think, that Claire and I are the non-science people
> > and also _happen_ to be female.
> > This is just a theory, but statistically there are more males
> > than females in the sciences, so if somehow science people
> > are more inclined to juggle, that could explain part of the
> > gender imbalance in juggling.
> >
>
> I am a female who juggles and I'm going to studie astronomy next year,
> but I want to become and illustrator. Am I the missing link :o)
>
>
I am neither a scientist or an artist, and I juggle, and I am also
female. Whoo-Hoo! I am the end result!
(oh dear god that frightens me)
Simone
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Simone Davalos <sp...@pantheon.yale.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 21, 1998 1:34 PM
Message-id: <Pine.GSO.3.94.980121...@mercury.cis.yale.edu>
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, jip wrote:
>
>> I am a female who juggles and I'm going to studie astronomy next year,
>> but I want to become and illustrator. Am I the missing link :o)
>>
>>
> I am neither a scientist or an artist, and I juggle, and I am also
>female. Whoo-Hoo! I am the end result!
>(oh dear god that frightens me)
>Simone
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