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Post by Arun Nagrath on Jun 28, 2011 21:50:12 GMT
Okay, there has been some debate recently about how common our conditions are. I don't know! Does anyone really know? I want to know your opinions on the matter. Are you
1 in 10 1 in 100 1 in 1000 1 in 10,000 1 in 100,000 1 in 1,000,000 (million)
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Post by Arun Nagrath on Jun 28, 2011 22:34:08 GMT
Guys, I have pulled off some statistics from our BodyOdorSupport.com site so we can have some idea about how common our conditions might be.
Since the site started in Jan 2009, there have been 10,000 Usernames created. The total number of people who have posted since the site opened is 600.
All the rest of the accounts appear to be spammers judging by their email addresses, usernames or IP addresses
It appears that on average, most users have had 2 accounts (forgotten usernames, passwords etc). This means 300 users in total.
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Post by jcc34 on Jun 29, 2011 2:23:27 GMT
It's very difficult to say but it also depends on our definitions. If we mean some type of noticeable odour (bad breath or feet etc) problem I'd say 1 in 100 or even ten, lots of people have mild halitosis for example. But if we're talking about unusually strong and unpleasant odour problems (multiple odour issues) with big social consequences then it's surely much more rare - at least 1 in 1000 I'd guess. At the international meetup in London if around twenty people turn up this doesn't seem like a big community (granted not everyone can afford to or wants to travel).
If 300 people posted on the last forum, how many more are there that: don't want to connect with our community, don't know about our community, don't know they have a problem, don't or can't use the internet, etc? As a fairly random guess say we represent a hundredth of our condition, that means there are 3000 of us in a world of about 6.9 billion! Which is less than 1 in 2 million! Pure guess work but still - yikes.
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Post by Arun Nagrath on Jul 9, 2011 19:16:59 GMT
Hi dude, Yes, I can see that your estimate for people with odour with big social consequences is between 1 in 1000 and 1 in a million. I would agree with this estimate myself.
I once spoke to a doctor who asked a few of his GP colleagues how common are such severe odour conditions. The answer he got back was that most GPs had come across, at most 1-2 such patients in their entire working life.
If the average GP list is 3,000 and over a 40 year period he/she might have seen perhaps up to 30,000 patients (?), then this suggests an occurrence of between 1 in 15,000 and 1 in 30,000.
I would thus suggest that frankly faecal breath/body odour which engulfs a home or work place within a few hours has an incidence of around 1 in 20,000
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Post by jcc34 on Jul 11, 2011 23:42:33 GMT
We're special I guess.
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Post by Arun Nagrath on Jul 12, 2011 17:45:53 GMT
Yes, I like to think of us as being specially gifted! ;D
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