• outofemailaliases@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    yes but how much of that history is important? no doubt its still the majority, but i suspect that some of that 90% you mention is just some random irrelevant persons life. i should also mention that i am not a historian nor a statistics person so take what i say with a grain of salt.

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      1 year ago

      90% of the bullet points are unrecorded. If we’re counting every Joe Smoe, then 99.9999…% is unrecorded.

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        I would say considering homo sapiens have been around for ~250,000 years we need a lot of decimal places… if you want to consider prior homo species that’s 2.8 million years and honestly you might as well call it 100%.