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:: Indeed it would be alarming.  And all the parts are given there - in particular, the size of the population in question.  And so we must now find out how many Australian, European, American, Latin American, South American ... singers, day time television stars, actresses, and models at some minimum level of fame (admit it - you don't know who 75% of the people in the list are) there are of various ages over the past 5 decades. At that point you can start looking at how many people are working in that particular mine. I would contend that for the population given that covers the list given, it is in the tens of thousands of people. --[[User:Rutm|Rutm]] 16:26, 20 May 2008 (EDT)

:: Indeed it would be alarming.  And all the parts are given there - in particular, the size of the population in question.  And so we must now find out how many Australian, European, American, Latin American, South American ... singers, day time television stars, actresses, and models at some minimum level of fame (admit it - you don't know who 75% of the people in the list are) there are of various ages over the past 5 decades. At that point you can start looking at how many people are working in that particular mine. I would contend that for the population given that covers the list given, it is in the tens of thousands of people. --[[User:Rutm|Rutm]] 16:26, 20 May 2008 (EDT)

:::Aschlafly, your model is perfectly correct, and that would certainly reveal a fundamental problem.  However,there's a fundamental difference between your example and your proposed case.  In your case, you don't know how many people are 'in the mine'.  If there are a hundred more people in the mine than you think, then the problem is less severe than you've imagined.  And you are simply 'saying' that there's 50 rock singers in the whole world.  Since I can think of 50 rock singer girls between the age of 18-45 in the city of Akron, Ohio alone, I think your population estimate is '''wildly''' wrong.  And if your test population is much bigger, the problem is smaller.  At a guess, I would say you re out by at the very least a factor of 1,000.  If you want the redaer's here to start listing candidates, we can certainly start doing so, but the list will become very, very long.  And then there's actresses.  All over the world.  [[User:JerryMander|JerryMander]] 16:51, 20 May 2008 (EDT)

:::Aschlafly, your model is perfectly correct, and that would certainly reveal a fundamental problem.  However,there's a fundamental difference between your example and your proposed case.  In your case, you don't know how many people are 'in the mine'.  If there are a hundred more people in the mine than you think, then the problem is a hundred times less severe than you've imagined.  And you are simply 'saying' that there's 50 rock singers in the whole world.  Since I can think of 50 rock singer girls between the age of 18-45 in the city of Akron, Ohio alone, I think your population estimate is '''wildly''' wrong.  And if your test population is much bigger, the problem is smaller.  At a guess, I would say you re out by at the very least a factor of 1,000.  If you want the redaer's here to start listing candidates, we can certainly start doing so, but the list will become very, very long.  And then there's actresses.  All over the world.  [[User:JerryMander|JerryMander]] 16:51, 20 May 2008 (EDT)

Working with Mr. Schlafly's 50 under 30 estimate, I've compiled a list of 50 of the best selling female music stars under 30 years old (born after May 1978). This is not an exact list, but all of the following are among the 50 most popular female musicians under 30, and I'm sure well over half of them are indiputable in the current top 50. (No particular order, though obviously some of the biggest are mentioned first):

Working with Mr. Schlafly's 50 under 30 estimate, I've compiled a list of 50 of the best selling female music stars under 30 years old (born after May 1978). This is not an exact list, but all of the following are among the 50 most popular female musicians under 30, and I'm sure well over half of them are indiputable in the current top 50. (No particular order, though obviously some of the biggest are mentioned first):