Saw this over at ROK Drop:
Although I seriously doubt you'd have five Kims on a single team. But you can't go wrong by also mentioning common surnames like Lee, Park, and Choi (pronounce it "cheh," not "choy"—the "oi" represents the ae or wae sound depending on the situation).
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It is not that unlikely to have five Kims on a single team. A football squad consists of 26 players, and according to 2015 statistics from the Korean government, Kims make up 21.51% of the population. This would mean you could expect to see 5 or 6 Kims on any given team. The current squad does, in fact, have six Kims.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, there are only only two Lees (of an expected 3.8) and no Parks (of an expected 2.2) or Choes (of an expected 1.2) at all. Chos (or Jo) are overrepresented, with three, even though statistically you would only expect about three-quarters of a Cho.
I guess I would have done the math with reference to the number of players on the field. By that reckoning, 21% of the population doesn't translate to 5-6 Kims on the field—it'd be more like 2 Kims plus a body from the waist down.
ReplyDeleteYou can tell I never took stats.
Well, I did... and I got a C, because it bored the crap out of me. I showed up for the first day of class, the mid-term exam, and the final exam, and somehow still managed to scrape by with a C. Perhaps unsurpisingly, I don't remember a single thing from the class. Just vague memories of pain and suffering.
ReplyDelete(And you did say "team," which includes all of the players, over half of whom are not playing at any given moment. Substitutes are team members too!)
We could get into a messy argument about what one means by "team" in reference to a given game, but I don't want to start down that rabbit hole. All I can say is that my intended meaning was "those on the field," i.e., 11 players, but I take your meaning: more than 11 players can say they belong to the same team.
ReplyDeleteStats, as a course, sounds very exciting.