U.S. Population
topic on 8 shows · 16 statements across 14 episodes
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16 statements about U.S. Population, every show
Anderson: Half of the US population lacks a primary care provider
“50% of the U.S. Population does not have a primary care provider, so they're not even going to the doctor. They're not getting regular checkups.”
Solomou: 11% of the US population identifies as content creators
“I saw a statistic that said that 11% of the US population classify themselves as content creators.”
Patrick: Nearly half of Americans have insufficient dietary magnesium intake
“Almost half of the US population is deficient in, or I would say they're, they get insufficient magnesium intake.”
Andreessen: Only 6% of Americans Share Ideology Built Into Social Media
“Even in the US, if you do the sort of, there's you know, sort of analysts that do the mapping of ideologies and political views in the US, it's only like six percent of the US population that agrees with the point of view that ended up getting built into socia…”
Bearer: Only about 15% of the US population has a 529 account
“Right now only about 15% of the U.S. Population has a five to nine account, so that's not a huge component.”
Patrick: Nearly half of Americans have insufficient magnesium intake
“Almost half of the US population, they get insufficient magnesium intake.”
Patrick: About 96% of Americans do not consume enough potassium
“Something like 96% of the U.S. Population doesn't get enough potassium.”
Patrick: Approximately 70% of US Population Is Vitamin D Insufficient
“And so something around 70% of the U.S. Population Is insufficient in vitamin D three. So that, that is defined as having blood levels of vitamin D less than 30 nanograms per milliliter.”
Friedberg: Over 100M Americans directly work for or get paid by federal government
“So when you add this all up, there's over a hundred, hundred and twenty million people in the U.S. That are directly working for or getting paid by the federal government in the U.S.”
Julie Yoo: Type 2 diabetes affects over 11% of Americans
“It affects over 11% of us, and so one in 10 of the people that you know are likely to be diagnosed with type two diabetes at some point in their life.”
Zwillinger: Less than 15% of Americans know Allbirds exists
“We still have less than 15% aided brand awareness, meaning only 15% of the US population knows that all birds exist.”
David Sacks claims accounting for transfer payments drops US poverty to 2%
“The publicly reported stats are that 13.5% of the US population lives in poverty. Once you actually take into account all these programs and transfer payments it's more like two percent.”
Walle: Unacast's anonymized dataset covers roughly 10% of the US population
“So we spent like four years in building up a data set to, yeah, roughly 10% of the U.S. Population, so it's an anonymized data set, and that's the basis of all the insights that we can build.”
Hawk: Over 80% of US population re-identifiable with three data points
“I think there's a stat out there that says that over 80 or 85% of the U.S. Population can be identified with three pieces of data.”
Gorham: US farming population will drop from two percent to one percent
“It used to be that a hundred percent of the country farmed and now two percent of the country farms, and it's going to be one percent before we know it, right?”