Quick Numerology Note
Jan. 20th, 2022 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdiI've been crunching the numbers for how common various birth numbers are in the USA based on demographic data from the US Census Bureau.
Every fully-reduced birth number (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) is equally common, with 11.1% of the population, each. However, 11's are far more common than "pure" 2's, consisting of around 80% of them. (This reached a peak of 90% around the year 2000, and will continue to fall in the decades ahead, though 11's will remain the majority.) 22's, on the other hand, are rather uncommon, presently only around 20% of 4's: this share will grow in the decades ahead, but "pure" 4's will remain the majority.
So to my fellow 11's, don't get a big head: there are a lot of us!
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Date: 2022-01-21 06:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-21 03:56 pm (UTC)This first chart is what fraction of the population born in a given year will be an 11 or a 22 (with a 9-year moving average to get rid of the huge spikes you get as the years cycle):
11s are always a major part of 2s overall, but tend to exist in much greater numbers at the end of a century. 22s are a relatively small fraction of 4s overall, but tend to exist in much greater numbers at the beginning of a century and especially at the beginning of a millennium. If the tradition is correct, expect a steep rise in religion and mysticism in the decades ahead.
This second chart is what fraction of 2s are 11s, and what fraction of 4s are 22s, are alive during the year in question (e.g. this graph considers demographics and not just birthdays):
Note that this graph is normalized (e.g. we're looking at 11s as a fraction of 2s, rather than as a fraction of everyone). The overall demography follows the births, but lagged some number of years of course as a given set of births filter into the population at large.
While the first chart is universal, the second chart is US-specific: I haven't looked at demographic trends elsewhere.
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Date: 2022-01-21 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-22 12:12 am (UTC)