According to PercentageCalculater.com, right now in the world, there are about 2800 people that are 7ft tall; this stat is rather extraordinary when you consider the fact that the population of earth is about 7.4 billion. To do a quick calculation, you can divide 7,400,000 by 2800. When you do this you get 3.78 E-7. This means that the probability of you becoming 7 feet tall is about 00.0038%.
When looking into sports, One of the biggest indicators of an athletes success is his or her genetics. There is one sport in particular that relies on genetics more than others; that sport is basketball. Out of all the sports, basketball requires the most perfect genetics in order to succeeded at a professional level. It doesn’t help …show more content…
The sport is very cruel in the way that many people have little to no hope of ever making it to the NBA unless you are over 6 and a half feet tall and have an incredible wing span that is longer than your overall height. To explain in a more simple way; if you are 6’5” in height, Then your wingspan needs to be somewhere around 6’8”. This isn’t needed, however it will give a massive advantage to blocking shots and getting rebounds. It is very rare for a person to have these traits and when they do, they generally seem to do very well in getting big college scholarships which might later lead to playing professionally. In this essay, I will go over the average mean height of men in the United States. It is said that if a man is 7 ft. tall, then getting into the NBA is a million times easier. Dan Diamond, who is a writer for Forbes wrote an article called “NBA Draft: Is Being 7 Feet Tall The Fastest Way To Get Rich In America?”. In this article, he said that “Thanks to pro basketball, being 7 feet tall is the world's shortest path to becoming a millionaire.” …show more content…
As you can see. I divided the first section into the odds of being 7 feet tall and the odds of not being 7 feet tall. This stat was made up due to the fact that we are really unsure of exactly how many 7 footers are in the United states as of right now. The number I made up was about 700 out of 350,000,000 people will become 7 feet tall. When you divide 700 by 350,000,000, you get .000006. Next we check for is the likelihood of actually making it to the NBA when you are 7 feet tall. Like I mentioned earlier, even if you are 7 feet tall, you still have many obstacles to clear like skill and health before you can actually enter the NBA. For this reason I declared that 100 out of the 700 people who are 7 feet tall will actually make the NBA. When you divide 100 by 700, you get around .14. Now to get the final percentage, we will multiply .14 by .000006. When you do this, you get .0000084 this is the number of players who are 7 feet tall, and who will actually make it to the NBA. Now we must find the number of 7 foot tall people that don’t end up making the NBA and to do this, I just subtracted .14 from 100 and the answer that I got was .86. Next, like before, we must multiply .86 by .000006. When you do this, the answer that you get is .000516; this is the percentage of being 7 feet tall and not making the NBA. Next
When looking into sports, One of the biggest indicators of an athletes success is his or her genetics. There is one sport in particular that relies on genetics more than others; that sport is basketball. Out of all the sports, basketball requires the most perfect genetics in order to succeeded at a professional level. It doesn’t help …show more content…
The sport is very cruel in the way that many people have little to no hope of ever making it to the NBA unless you are over 6 and a half feet tall and have an incredible wing span that is longer than your overall height. To explain in a more simple way; if you are 6’5” in height, Then your wingspan needs to be somewhere around 6’8”. This isn’t needed, however it will give a massive advantage to blocking shots and getting rebounds. It is very rare for a person to have these traits and when they do, they generally seem to do very well in getting big college scholarships which might later lead to playing professionally. In this essay, I will go over the average mean height of men in the United States. It is said that if a man is 7 ft. tall, then getting into the NBA is a million times easier. Dan Diamond, who is a writer for Forbes wrote an article called “NBA Draft: Is Being 7 Feet Tall The Fastest Way To Get Rich In America?”. In this article, he said that “Thanks to pro basketball, being 7 feet tall is the world's shortest path to becoming a millionaire.” …show more content…
As you can see. I divided the first section into the odds of being 7 feet tall and the odds of not being 7 feet tall. This stat was made up due to the fact that we are really unsure of exactly how many 7 footers are in the United states as of right now. The number I made up was about 700 out of 350,000,000 people will become 7 feet tall. When you divide 700 by 350,000,000, you get .000006. Next we check for is the likelihood of actually making it to the NBA when you are 7 feet tall. Like I mentioned earlier, even if you are 7 feet tall, you still have many obstacles to clear like skill and health before you can actually enter the NBA. For this reason I declared that 100 out of the 700 people who are 7 feet tall will actually make the NBA. When you divide 100 by 700, you get around .14. Now to get the final percentage, we will multiply .14 by .000006. When you do this, you get .0000084 this is the number of players who are 7 feet tall, and who will actually make it to the NBA. Now we must find the number of 7 foot tall people that don’t end up making the NBA and to do this, I just subtracted .14 from 100 and the answer that I got was .86. Next, like before, we must multiply .86 by .000006. When you do this, the answer that you get is .000516; this is the percentage of being 7 feet tall and not making the NBA. Next