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Originally Posted by scroosko
its truly amazing something free that anyone out of the 6 billion or so in the world can watch if they have access to a net connection gets the same amount of people as a sports arena in which people have to pay to be in and be from the local area.
You mean 7 billion? And the number of people who are estimated to not have access to affordable internet is supposed to be somewhere between 2-4 billion.
The reference to the arena was meant to conjure up an image of what 22k individual people actually looks like, to override the mental tendency to think of big numbers in the abstract.
Like 22k individuals all had their attention peeled to JCarver playing poker last night, and I was one of 22k - this is what 22k individual people actually look like:
I think if you don't think of numbers like 22k as individual people, there's a tendency to think of big numbers as sort of like, 'whatever'? As in like, 'oh, the population of the world is 7 billion and not 6 billion?
Whatever, that's close enough .. ', or like '22k people,
whatever ... that's nothing compared to 6 billion ..'
Or was there some larger point you were trying to make with your comment, that was relevant to this thread?