Odds

What are the chances that wormpicker told me about this site? The Book of Odds.

For over three years we have been building what we believe is the missing dictionary, one filled not with words, but with numbers - the odds of everyday life. It contains hundreds of thousands of Odds Statements, from the odds of being the only one to survive a plane crash, to the odds of having a heart attack, to the odds of having ever eaten cold pizza for breakfast.

Here are a few random odds about Arizona:

• The odds a registered vehicle in Arizona has vanity plates are 1 in 19.37.
• The odds a person in Arizona will die from exposure to air pressure changes in a year are 1 in 19,090,000.
• The odds an employed person 16 or older in Arizona is a writer or author are 1 in 5,276.
• The odds an employed person 16 or older in Arizona is an upholsterer are 1 in 9,096.
• The odds a person in Oro Valley, Arizona will be the victim of a reported robbery in a year are 1 in 5,826.
• The odds a person in South Tucson, Arizona will be the victim of a reported robbery in a year are 1 in 70.08.

The database is lacking in a few areas. For example, it can't tell me what are the odds of somebody playing the banjo. It can't even tell me for a piano.