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WIRED’s Scott Dadich Takes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Watch WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge—while doing the math behind how long it would take for every person in the world to have completed the challenge. (Want to check our work? Go to http://wrd.cm/icebucketmath.) Scott's donated to help put an end to ALS. Go to alsa.org to learn how you can help too. Thanks to GQ’s Michael Hainey for the nomination. Scott’s paying it forward: Consider yourselves challenged, Chris Hardwick, Cindi Leive, and Carlton Cuse!

Released on 08/21/2014

Transcript

Hi, I'm Scott Dadich from Wired

and I'm sitting here because of Michael Hainey at GQ,

who challenged me with the Ice Bucket Challenge.

Now, while I've already donated to fund ALS research,

I did think it would be fun

to break this challenge down, Wired style.

You see, the probability of nominating someone,

who hasn't had ice dumped on their head,

depends directly on the number of people

who have had ice dumped on their head divided by

the entire population of earth.

So by my math, that would put us, at late September,

at that point, just about every single person would

have had ice dumped on their head.

Now my math may be a little bit...

my math might be a little bit off,

but one thing I'm sure of, is that Carlton Cuse,

Chris Hardwick and Cindi Leive, you're up next.

For more information go to ALSA.org.

Thanks

(applause)