alt Hacker NewsI think it's working as intended. The year is simply a randomly chosen year not related to the density of births in that year. It would be a boring tool if it actually chose "random year based on random birth" because almost every choice would be from 1900 onward...
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mrtnmcc • today at 8:02 PM
Notice the log scale on the year axis. There is far more probability mass during older years because of that.
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wat10000 • today at 7:40 PM
The site covers a 300,000 year span, so a randomly chosen year would average ~150,000 BCE, which definitely isn't happening.
The skew towards the present isn't as stark as that. World population has exploded in the past couple of centuries, but it hasn't been high for very long. 1900 to present only covers ~11% of all births.
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That’s not what it says on the tin though. “Drawn at random from everyone who has ever lived” means years will not be uniformly distributed.