Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
A couple of hundred telepaths in a population that must be well into the tens of billions is pretty darned rare, all told. I don't think there's anything in the show that points to telepaths being commonplace?
Actually, telepaths are supposed to be 1 in 1000, with telekinetics making up 1 in every 10,000 telepaths.

So if we took a population of 10 billion, that's 10 million telepaths, and 1000 TKS.

We know that a large percentage of TKs (50%) go insane, so low numbers there aren't surprising,

But in theory, there are a lot of telepaths. What we don't get good numbers on are the percentages/ratios at each strength level. It's possible that the majority are P1 and p2, which makes them useless for anything but detecting and blocking scans. We could be looking at a scenario where for every 100 telepaths or so, only 6 rank P5 or higher.