[OC] When the 1 Gorilla vs 100 Humans debate was going on, I asked people how many average humans they think it would take to defeat 1 of each of these animals:
[OC] When the 1 Gorilla vs 100 Humans debate was going on, I asked people how many average humans they think it would take to defeat 1 of each of these animals:
Source: A Google Forms survey over at r/SampleSize . Sadly My Sample Size is relatively small at n=57. But I thought the trends might still be fun to see. (Link to the Form https://forms.gle/e4vzKwZ1UcSm62ta6) The question was if they were humans of the same skill level and strength as them. As well as unarmed.
Tools: Google Sheets. Taking the Average of all answers, counting a “couldn’t defeat” the same as 500 (Max answer) for ease of calculation. The results are a bit swingy due to the low sample size and have decently large but not gigantic standard deviations.
I have tried my best to filter out obvious joke answers, like the person that stated that they could 1v1 any animal except for a Chihuahua…
krupfeltz on
people are really underestimating ostriches.
I wish you had added confidence intervals to see which animals are the most controversial.
Curious-Message-6946 on
Who would defeat a rabbit?
shade175 on
Why would you need 10 humans to defeat a goat? Who made this fucked up graph? Chat gpt? Fucj off
gegry123 on
A lot of this is gross overestimation
Goatfryed on
More than 1 for cats andraccoons 180 for elephants? They realize we have been hunting elephants for millennials?
If anything, this data shows that the modern human is so disconnected from animal processing that they have really no clue of what they and what animals can do.
But I guess the gorilla debate showed this already. Most of us have also forgotten that our strength is in endurance and tricks, and that most dangerous animals have really comparably low endurance and can be withered down easily, if you don’t charge at them directly and evade them for some time.
trooooppo on
Is the “Chihuahua” bar a little bit bigger because it takes 2 people?
I think a teenager can kick that thing dead.
RampagingPenguins on
Is the question about Humans with bare hands or anything they can craft with x amount of people from their surroundings or anything is allowed? Because all of this would lead to very different numbers.
zombiemutant on
The chart will be more beautiful with horizontal bars.
256684 on
I really want to know what 40 people are going to do with a box jellyfish.
if your smart then one person with a stick could do the job.
if they are dumb and try picking it up by hand then it has more then enough venom for all of them
djdood0o0o on
Assuming no weapons presumably
apple_pi_chart on
Do a scatter plot of the the “weight of the animal” vs “assumed number of humans”. Distance from the best fit line will be the “assumed ferocity” of each animal.
JahoclaveS on
I will give this chart props for not including Canadian Geese, knowing full well that a single goose can defeat an infinite amount of humans.
nanadoom on
Moose should be higher up this list. I would fight a mountain lion before I’d fight a moose, those things are huge
mVargic on
Do they really think it would take 6+ men for a goat and a penguin? Solo farmers routinely wrangle goats by themselves and the largest emperor penguins weigh 46 kg. 30 men for a giant tortoise and 40 for a box jellyfish? One person can rip it to shreds in seconds even though its’ likely to kill them later.
thearizztokrat on
How do you kill a blue whale without weapons? Like that was the debate that it was hand to hand combat only.
enfuego138 on
A lot of people out there haven’t seen a coyote relative to a wolf or a pit bull
Edit: or a hyena(!)
ThePr3acher on
A lot of those numbers would drop dramatically if humans were allowed to use basic wood spears.
Hell even a fist sized stone for each human changes the whole equation
I just say that because its arguably one of the two big reasons humans even prevailed. Pack bonding and basic weapons. Having a human fight without anything basic is like telling a Lion he isnt allowed to bite to hard.
IdiotInIT on
im convinced half these people have never actually seen any of these animals in person.
louiseifyouplease on
1 person for a rabbit??? Have they seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
hedekar on
Moose being lower than a black bear is wild.
mvw2 on
The fact that cat was greater than 1 is hilarious.
I’m stuck at 1 until cow and only because it jumps to such a bulky animal for one sec person. Everything else seems manageable with a good plan. I’m assuming no weapons but able to use the environment, aka two things stuck in an empty room. For that greater than 1 would start at anaconda, but I’d still consider wolf 1.
RiverRoll on
My grandfather told me about that time the great tortoise was tormeting their village. They gathered a force of 30 men, counting him, barely enough for just a risky quest but that’s all they had.
They marched towards where the tortoise was resting and circled it, ready to attack, but just as they started charging another tortoise appeared from behind a rock. “Retreat! Retreat!” someone shouted, but it was too late. The second tortoise advanced at a slow yet ominous pace, so intimidating the men’s legs refused to move.
In the chaos, my grandfather crawled away as the tortoises slowly but surely defeated every man, becoming the only one who survived to tell the tale. He still has nightmares about it to this day.
Juls7243 on
I have no idea how 200 people would kill a blue whale in the water…. like… I don’t think 5000 people could because the whale would simply swim away.
tildenpark on
Do we have to drown the whale? Or is 200 just the crew size it takes to get clean burning lamp oil?
erkjhnsn on
It’s so sad imagining all of those passive animals like cows just getting beaten up on by a gang of humans….
abrorcurrents on
1 person can kill a Box jellyfish
not fucking 40
oh and everything turns into 1 person with a 9mm
JakeStC on
It’s funny that most of these are wild exaggerations but then there are two that seems extremely optimistic, how are any amount of humans suppose to beat a great white or a blue whale in water??
ajollyllama on
Where the eff are the error bars and N (sarcasm)
Sw3d3n90 on
Ridiculous. Aren’t crocodiles stronger than alligators? And why are multiple humans needed for a chihuahua? And why are more humans needed for defeating a box jellyfish? One human can do that if necessary. He’ll die as well but whatever, a win is a win.
GMN123 on
Given how useless we are in the water, I can’t see 200 unarmed humans taking down a blue whale.
Mantuta on
People are definitely unaware of the relative sizes of animals.
How did an American alligator end up with a higher number than a Nile Crocodile?
aaapod on
you need more than 1 human to defeat the average cat?
Dynomyster569 on
People think an ostrich is easier to beat than an eagle or a coyote or a tortoise? Have y’all mfs seen an ostrich before?
Metasynaptic on
The number for giraffe is is wild. A 2 tonne giraffe will take the head off a lion like it’s nothing
tehnoodnub on
What were the specifics of the question? Can the humans have weapons? If the humans don’t have weapons then I think you’d need a lot more to defeat a blue whale or elephant. And if they do have weapons then you’d need a lot less.
Singochan on
good lord people are dumb as fuck.
AceOfDiamonds373 on
40 people to kill a chimpanzee? These people are fucking delusional.
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What would 200 humans do against a blue whale hahahaha
Isn’t a polar bear like 4 times the size of a grizzly?
Thank you for these data btw. How big was your sample?
4-5 people to defeat a racoon?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHN-f6xTzsY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHN-f6xTzsY)
Source: A Google Forms survey over at r/SampleSize . Sadly My Sample Size is relatively small at n=57. But I thought the trends might still be fun to see. (Link to the Form https://forms.gle/e4vzKwZ1UcSm62ta6) The question was if they were humans of the same skill level and strength as them. As well as unarmed.
Tools: Google Sheets. Taking the Average of all answers, counting a “couldn’t defeat” the same as 500 (Max answer) for ease of calculation. The results are a bit swingy due to the low sample size and have decently large but not gigantic standard deviations.
I have tried my best to filter out obvious joke answers, like the person that stated that they could 1v1 any animal except for a Chihuahua…
people are really underestimating ostriches.
I wish you had added confidence intervals to see which animals are the most controversial.
Who would defeat a rabbit?
Why would you need 10 humans to defeat a goat? Who made this fucked up graph? Chat gpt? Fucj off
A lot of this is gross overestimation
More than 1 for cats andraccoons 180 for elephants? They realize we have been hunting elephants for millennials?
If anything, this data shows that the modern human is so disconnected from animal processing that they have really no clue of what they and what animals can do.
But I guess the gorilla debate showed this already. Most of us have also forgotten that our strength is in endurance and tricks, and that most dangerous animals have really comparably low endurance and can be withered down easily, if you don’t charge at them directly and evade them for some time.
Is the “Chihuahua” bar a little bit bigger because it takes 2 people?
I think a teenager can kick that thing dead.
Is the question about Humans with bare hands or anything they can craft with x amount of people from their surroundings or anything is allowed? Because all of this would lead to very different numbers.
The chart will be more beautiful with horizontal bars.
I really want to know what 40 people are going to do with a box jellyfish.
if your smart then one person with a stick could do the job.
if they are dumb and try picking it up by hand then it has more then enough venom for all of them
Assuming no weapons presumably
Do a scatter plot of the the “weight of the animal” vs “assumed number of humans”. Distance from the best fit line will be the “assumed ferocity” of each animal.
I will give this chart props for not including Canadian Geese, knowing full well that a single goose can defeat an infinite amount of humans.
Moose should be higher up this list. I would fight a mountain lion before I’d fight a moose, those things are huge
Do they really think it would take 6+ men for a goat and a penguin? Solo farmers routinely wrangle goats by themselves and the largest emperor penguins weigh 46 kg. 30 men for a giant tortoise and 40 for a box jellyfish? One person can rip it to shreds in seconds even though its’ likely to kill them later.
How do you kill a blue whale without weapons? Like that was the debate that it was hand to hand combat only.
A lot of people out there haven’t seen a coyote relative to a wolf or a pit bull
Edit: or a hyena(!)
A lot of those numbers would drop dramatically if humans were allowed to use basic wood spears.
Hell even a fist sized stone for each human changes the whole equation
I just say that because its arguably one of the two big reasons humans even prevailed. Pack bonding and basic weapons. Having a human fight without anything basic is like telling a Lion he isnt allowed to bite to hard.
im convinced half these people have never actually seen any of these animals in person.
1 person for a rabbit??? Have they seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Moose being lower than a black bear is wild.
The fact that cat was greater than 1 is hilarious.
I’m stuck at 1 until cow and only because it jumps to such a bulky animal for one sec person. Everything else seems manageable with a good plan. I’m assuming no weapons but able to use the environment, aka two things stuck in an empty room. For that greater than 1 would start at anaconda, but I’d still consider wolf 1.
My grandfather told me about that time the great tortoise was tormeting their village. They gathered a force of 30 men, counting him, barely enough for just a risky quest but that’s all they had.
They marched towards where the tortoise was resting and circled it, ready to attack, but just as they started charging another tortoise appeared from behind a rock. “Retreat! Retreat!” someone shouted, but it was too late. The second tortoise advanced at a slow yet ominous pace, so intimidating the men’s legs refused to move.
In the chaos, my grandfather crawled away as the tortoises slowly but surely defeated every man, becoming the only one who survived to tell the tale. He still has nightmares about it to this day.
I have no idea how 200 people would kill a blue whale in the water…. like… I don’t think 5000 people could because the whale would simply swim away.
Do we have to drown the whale? Or is 200 just the crew size it takes to get clean burning lamp oil?
It’s so sad imagining all of those passive animals like cows just getting beaten up on by a gang of humans….
1 person can kill a Box jellyfish
not fucking 40
oh and everything turns into 1 person with a 9mm
It’s funny that most of these are wild exaggerations but then there are two that seems extremely optimistic, how are any amount of humans suppose to beat a great white or a blue whale in water??
Where the eff are the error bars and N (sarcasm)
Ridiculous. Aren’t crocodiles stronger than alligators? And why are multiple humans needed for a chihuahua? And why are more humans needed for defeating a box jellyfish? One human can do that if necessary. He’ll die as well but whatever, a win is a win.
Given how useless we are in the water, I can’t see 200 unarmed humans taking down a blue whale.
People are definitely unaware of the relative sizes of animals.
How did an American alligator end up with a higher number than a Nile Crocodile?
you need more than 1 human to defeat the average cat?
People think an ostrich is easier to beat than an eagle or a coyote or a tortoise? Have y’all mfs seen an ostrich before?
The number for giraffe is is wild. A 2 tonne giraffe will take the head off a lion like it’s nothing
What were the specifics of the question? Can the humans have weapons? If the humans don’t have weapons then I think you’d need a lot more to defeat a blue whale or elephant. And if they do have weapons then you’d need a lot less.
good lord people are dumb as fuck.
40 people to kill a chimpanzee? These people are fucking delusional.
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