The Other One Percent

You don’t need a seven-figure salary to stand out from 99 percent of the populace — all you need is red hair. Here, a few more ways to be 1 in 100.

• One percent of Boston youths join gangs.
• One percent of Americans have the surname Smith.
• One percent of hospital patients consume 22 percent of healthcare nationwide.
• One percent of taxpayers earning less than $200,000 get audited.
• One percent of Americans have a Ph.D. (here, it’s 13 percent).
• One percent of children ages 10 to 17 admit to sexting.
• One percent of mobile-phone users hog half of the world’s data bandwidth.
• One percent of men have a third nipple.
• One percent of Americans identify themselves as asexual.
• One percent of the workforce is employed by the Department of Defense.
• One percent of Americans claim farming as their occupation.