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How Many Really?

New from BERG and the BBC: How Many Really?. Background here.

You can probably guess what it does from the URL — it compares the numbers of people who experienced an event with a number you can relate to: the size of your social network.

Examples: How many of your Twitter friends would have been eligible to vote in Classical Athens? How many of your Facebook friends would have sunk with the Titanic? How many of your friends would have returned from WWI?