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Harpers Index?
    #5823397 - 07/05/06 12:16 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Just curious if anyone else ever checks this out. Its a list put out by Harpers Magazine every month. The index isnt on one particular thing, but is more of a narrow cross-section of cultural and political issues.

Here's the most recent one they have posted on the website, for the month of April...

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Harper's Index for April 2006
Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006.
SourcesPercentage of Americans who say they support air strikes against Iran “if diplomacy fails”: 51[Fox News Poll (N.Y.C.)]

Percentage of Iraqis who say they approve of insurgent attacks on U.S.-led forces: 47[Program on International Policy Attitudes (Washington)]

Percentage who approve of attacks on Iraqi security forces: 7[Program on International Policy Attitudes (Washington)]

Minimum number of times that U.S. forces have kidnapped the wives of suspected Iraqi insurgents: 2[American Civil Liberties Union (N.Y.C.)]

Number of U.S. veterans who have been denied Veterans Administration health care since 2003: 263,257[U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs]

Estimated ratio this year of the U.S. defense budget to that of the rest of the world combined: 1:1 (see page 45)[Stockholm International Peace Research Institute]

Percentage of Americans who say they trust the military, the presidency, and Congress, respectively: 74, 44, 22[The Gallup Poll (Princeton, N.J.)]

Rank of the National Security Agency among top U.S. employers of mathematicians: 1[American Mathematical Society (Providence, R.I.)]
Chance that an American believes his or her phone has been tapped by the federal government: 1 in 5[Ponemon Institute, LLC (Elk Rapids, Mich.)]

Cost of a U.S. pilot project in a New Jersey school to use an eye scanner to identify all adults who enter: $369,000[Hewlett-Packard (N.Y.C.)]

Number of adults each student can have approved in the system: 4[Hewlett-Packard (N.Y.C.)]

Price for which companies can purchase the personal data of all Minnesota drivers’-license holders from the state: $1,500[Minnesota Department of Public Safety (St. Paul)]

Estimated number that have bought the data so far: 800[Minnesota Department of Public Safety (St. Paul)]

Rank of Wal-Mart and Target, respectively, among the top online retailers of 2005: 3, 4[comScore Networks, Inc. (Chicago)]

Amount by which Americans’ total spending last year exceeded their earnings: $41,600,000,000[U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis]

Last year in which spending outstripped earnings: 1933[U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis]

Estimated labor cost of complying with the U.S. tax code each year, expressed as a percentage of U.S. tax receipts: 22[Tax Foundation (Washington)]

Percentage of Estonians who file their tax returns online: 75[Estonian Tax and Customs Board (Tallinn)]

Pounds of radioactive produce grown near Chernobyl that were confiscated in Moscow markets last year: 1,820[Radon (Moscow)]
Number of consecutive decades that the amount of sunlight in China has declined: 5[Yun Qian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, Wash.)]

Estimated number of North Korean‒produced counterfeit $100 “supernotes” discovered worldwide since 1989: 500,000[U.S. Secret Service]

Number of tunnels that have been discovered under the U.S.‒Mexico border since 2001: 34[U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration]

Number under the U.S.‒Canada border: 1[U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration]


Percentage of Canadians who say that immigrants are a “good influence” on their nation: 77[Pew Research Center for the People and the Press (Washington)]

Percentage of Americans and Germans, respectively, who say this: 49, 35[Pew Research Center for the People and the Press (Washington)]

Chance that a Western European believes 2006 will be better than 2005: 1 in 3[Gallup International (London)]

Chance that an African believes this: 1 in 2[Gallup International (London)]

Portion of the grants in President Bush’s $415 billion AIDS initiative that has gone to religious groups: 1/4[The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Washington)]

Ratio, in the United States, of antiabortion “pregnancy centers” to abortion clinics: 6:1[Heartbeat International (Columbus, Ohio)/Stanley K. Hensh, Alan Guttmacher Institute (N.Y.C.)]

Number of glasses of wine or sherry that seventeen homeless alcoholics were allowed daily, in a Canadian study: 15[Jeffrey Turnbull, Ottawa Hospital]

Number of the participants who reduced their alcohol intake, quit the study, or died, respectively: 11, 3, 3[Jeffrey Turnbull, Ottawa Hospital]


Number of dogs that a California clinic trained to diagnose cancer by sniffing patients’ breath: 5[Nicholas Broffman, Pine Street Foundation (San Anselmo, Calif.)]

Percentage of lung- and breast-cancer cases that they accurately detect, respectively: 99, 88[Nicholas Broffman, Pine Street Foundation (San Anselmo, Calif.)]

Percentage of breast-cancer cases that are detectable by mammogram: 85[Carol Lee, Yale School of Medicine (New Haven, Conn.)]

Chance that a passenger on a flight of two and a half hours or longer will have a cold within a week: 1 in 5[Martin B. Hocking, University of Victoria (British Columbia)]

Percentage of U.S. couples who regularly sleep in separate beds: 23[National Sleep Foundation (Washington)]

Percentage of U.S. adults in 1985 who said they found overweight people less attractive than others: 55[NPD Group (Port Washington, N.Y.)]

Percentage who said this last year: 24[NPD Group (Port Washington, N.Y.)]

Estimated number of Marshmallow Peeps that will be consumed around Easter this month: 800,000,000

Estimated number of pigs who died to make them: 125,000






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Re: Harpers Index? [Re: Madtowntripper]
    #5823561 - 07/05/06 01:04 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

wow, that is actually prettty interesting.


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