Stats In The News by Steve Mays

Mr. Mays

MrMays — 2013-11-21 12:12:02 UTC

This article talks about how the increase of safety standards on toys has reduced the number of recalls on toys over the last 3 to 4 years. I was very surprised to learn that there were nearly 172 toy recalls in 2008. Also, I found it interesting that there were 186,000 emergency room visits due to toy related accidents. That's a lot more than I would have thought.

Ivy Moody, Women in Theatre.

2013-11-21 15:23:03 UTC

This article shoes how there are more women theatregoers but on the stage there are more men employed to work in theatre. It surprised me that there were only 36% of theatres examined that had women as artistic directors. I thought it would be more half and half. According to this article only 24% of directors employed by the theatres during 2011-12 were women which is very surprising to me.

Brady Bogan

2013-11-21 15:23:05 UTC

The article i choose was about motorcycle riders being hit by motorist. i found shocking that over 7,400 injuries were sustained by motorcyclists, 376 cyclists were killed and 767 passengers on motorcycles died. I also that it was interesting that study reveals that motorists are found at fault for 60 percent of collisions involving cars and motorcycles.

Jacob Burris

2013-11-21 15:25:04 UTC

This article is referencing the decline in young drivers across the country. As time goes on, less teenagers and young adults are receiving their driver's license. I find it very interesting that in Texas, the percent of young people with licenses dropped 12% from the year 2000 to 2010. However, I find it relieving that the increase in walking trips for young people has increased 24% from 2000 to 2009.

Hannah Murrin

2013-11-21 15:27:21 UTC

This article is basically talking about how younger boys especially have a lot of energy and when they participate in sports, their energy levels are contained and they aren't as agressive. I found it interesting that the change in boys was so drastic but the change in girls was little to nothing. you'd think there would be a least a signifcant change in girls. I would assume that's just the age factor. I also found that it was interesting how verbal therapy isn't nearly as effective as introducing a sport. the population of the experiment was 649 different kids with different backgrounds so the variation of the child had nothing to do with the experiment and was controlled.

Bret Ledford

2013-11-21 15:28:14 UTC

This article talks about the price elasticity of demand for gasoline. It blew my mind that the average price-elasticity of demand for gasoline is -0.26. That is, a 10% rise in the price of gasoline lowers quantity demanded by 2.6%. It also interested me that The volume of traffic will go down by roundly 1% within about a year.

Chris Recker

2013-11-21 15:28:29 UTC

This artical tell us how reading achually has a healthy impact to the human body. When we read it increases our attention spane and also increases our problem solving. One thing I thought was pretty interesting is that studies in University of Sussex in 2009 found that just a couple minutes a day of reading aproxamently 6 it helps reduse stress levels tramendasly. Another statisic shows from University of California that reading at a young age can help prevent Alzheimer’s.

Lauren Fazio

2013-11-21 15:29:23 UTC

This article is about how exercising reduces the risk of anxiety and stress. It reduces the risk by 40% but it has to be 20 minutes long. The harder you work out and the longer it is the better affects it has on your mental health. it also showed that the different activities even things like
housework and gardening, walking and sports, all showed a reduced chance of
psychological distress.

Sam Webb

2013-11-21 15:31:59 UTC

This article talks about various knots and how they affect the overall strength of a rope. I was surprised that many common knots reduce the strength by 40-50% and knots that I trust my life with still reduce the strength of the rope by 20-30%.

Addy Miklos

2013-11-21 15:32:09 UTC

The article I chose was informative in showing a significant increase in muilt-grade trained teachers in the near future. The artice predicted that "at least 682 teachers will graduate from teacher training colleges trained in multi-grade (MG) teaching by 2015." The general education statistics shows the "prevalence of multi-grade classroom situations" jumped from 37% in 2007 to 53% in 2009. I feel that this is a positive step for improving our education system.

Javert Valenzuela/Barrios

2013-11-21 15:32:52 UTC

This article is about how video games, contrary to popular belief, can actually benefit children by providing them with experiences they might not be able to get in the real world. According to the article, 95% of American kids, boys and girls, under the age of 20 play video games. I found this number surprisingly high. Another statistic mentioned is that there are 500 million active gamers in the world right now and by the time they reach the age of 21, each of them will have spent 10,000 hours playing these games. Again, this is a surprising number of hours because it is so large.

Quinn Atkinson

2013-11-21 15:37:52 UTC

This article is about how social media has increased sales for both online and in-store shopping in the last year. Something I found interesting was that there was a 357% increase in sales because of social media. I also was suprised that people start thinking about christmas gifts before October.. I don't start shopping for gifts untill the week before Christmas.. Maybe..

Allen Inskeep

2013-11-21 15:45:15 UTC

The theme of this article is about the statistics of smokers over the age of 18. It takes race, age, education and income stats.

I found that American Indians somke more cigarettes than any other race.

I also found it surprising that people who have gotten their GED, smokes more than anyother educated person.

Beniria white

2013-11-21 15:47:21 UTC

this article shows the statistics of gun usage and how it's increased from 2011 to now. something interesting that i found out from it is that with the increase of guns, california has the highest number of gun usage and murders in the U.S and also that for every 100 person 88 of them have guns. thats almost 90% and thats a lot!

Devon Stanaford/Health as Entertainment

2013-11-21 15:53:36 UTC

This article relates to the Biggest Loser and the effects it has on its viewers around the world. One thing I found interesting was the percentage of obese women and men in the country. Also, I thought that America being the most obese country in the world was schoking. We may be free, but not all of us are skinny.

Zach lust jaywalking

2013-11-21 16:46:15 UTC

In this article it shows how there have been over 9,000 tickets for jaywalking and that most pedestrians have jaywalked. It's interesting that you get a $50 fine for crossing the street. It's also funny that they have given out over 9,000 tickets that are worth more than $432,000 in only an 18 month period

Nate beebe

2013-11-21 16:47:02 UTC

This article is about how kids play more video games that involve violence and other mature content. I found it interesting that 24% of boys between the age 11-14 said playing video games helped them release their anger. It was also interesting that 13% of girls from 11-14 liked playing video games involving guns, causing them to like

Ian Pennington

2013-11-21 16:48:05 UTC

The theme of this article is about how you are more likely to get if your black in nyc. I found this interesting because you would think that it would be more than just one group of people rather than just blacks. Another thing is if you are black you are automatically assumed youve done soemthing wrong

Joey Thomas

2013-11-21 16:48:35 UTC

This article is about concussions in sports and the likelyness of them happening. It talks about effects and the treatments/non-treatments of concussions. I found it interesting that there are an estimated 1.6 to 3.8 million concussions per year in high school sports. I also found it interesting that for admitted patients with concussions, one of the highest causes was for skateboarding/rollerblading.

Savannah Baker

2013-11-21 16:48:59 UTC

This article shows new statistics within Social Media. One interesting statistic that I read in this article was that Twitter users are 33% more likely to me democratic. I found that to be very interesting, I didn't expect that. A shocking statistic that I read was that only 33% of American's have followed a company/brand. I found that to be shocking because of the amount of advertisement you see at every company promoting their twitter.

Rachel Doppes

2013-11-21 16:49:29 UTC

This article talks about the divorce rate between couples who meet online between couples who have met in person. What I found interesting is that out of 20,000 people, 35% of them met through an Internet dating site. Also that one in three Americans meet there spouse online.

Kaylyn Bolin

2013-11-21 16:50:18 UTC

Studies show that divorce rate is dropping due to the fact that people are waiting to get married and focousing on getting an education and stable job first.

Something that suprised me was that In 1996, 19% of 25- to 29-year-old women who had been married were divorced, which seams kind of high considering they aren't even thirty yet.

Another interesting fact is that the percentage of recently married women who have at least a bachelor's degree increased from 21% in 1996 to 31% in 2009. This means that women are establishing more profession careers before getting married and having children.

Matt Allgor

2013-11-21 16:55:31 UTC

This article is about how how hospitals charge ridiculous amount of money for procedures that cost significantley less right down the street. I find it suprising that a hospital could get away with charging up to $90,000 more than a hospital down the street, for the same procedure. I was also suprised by the fact medicare was 7% the cost of a regular hospital bill in one scenario.

Sean flannery

2013-11-21 16:55:41 UTC

This article shows how big of an effect snack foods have on the world. Something that I learned from this is that the snack food industry is predicted to reach almost $335million in 2015. I had NO idea that snack foods had this big of an impact on the economy!

2013-11-21 16:55:52 UTC

I love this demographic profile because cosmopolitan is somewhere I would love to be employed one day. This shows how Cosmo is read in all different cultures and walks of like. My favorite stat is that the majority of readers are 18-34 years old. I thought it would be a younger market.

Jared Wesley

2013-11-21 16:56:24 UTC

The theme of this article is that most sexual assaults on college women involve alcohol. I thought that it was interesting that in 80% of sexaul assaults the victim has consumed alcohol or other drugs. I also found it interesting that 60% of college students reported that they binge drink.

Alison E

2013-11-21 16:59:25 UTC

This article is about how getting more sleep helps you engage more in what you do. In the article it says that 70% of people don't get the amount of sleep that they need to perform their best throughout the day and that surprise me. Also something interesting I read was that getting more sleep leads to an increase in physical performance

Jonah Rousseau

2013-11-21 17:03:52 UTC

This article is about the growing internation interest in social netwrking, in fact India is growing the most rapid and in the highest quantity. The thing that interested me was after the 37.4% increase of people using the most popular social site in the world (Facebook) the site is estimated to reach a record breaking 1.026 billion users this year. other countries obvioulsy have higher growth percentages than india in percentage, but the population in india is so large that the smallest amount makes a huge difference

2013-11-21 17:06:50 UTC

Erika Alva

2013-11-21 17:06:58 UTC

The article is about how the USA scored the lowest in the national average IQ among the developed countries. Whats interesting is that American high school students scored 483 in the test program for International Student Assessment. The average score was way below other counties. Also By age fifteen Americans fell behind 25 countries in this test. (Internationale student assessment). That's alarming to me.

Julian Taveras

2013-11-21 17:10:46 UTC

This article is about black Americans in New York who have been shown to be in more shootings or arrests than any other race. You are 25 % more likely to me shot or arrested if you are a black person living in New York. I always just assumed but looking at the numbers it's actually a little surprising on how high the percentages are.

Evan Zoutis

2013-11-21 18:00:25 UTC

This article is about the spike of malaria cases in the Us in recent years. One fact that I found surprising is that cases of malaria in the United States has increased by 14% percent from 2010 to 2011. Another shocking fact that I found was that 650,000 people die from malaria each year and 90% of those deaths occur in Africa alone.

Jack Walters

2013-11-21 21:25:33 UTC

This article is about two friends that are franchising their rock climbing business, showing the statistics behind the growing rock climbing business. Something that I found interesting is that the amount of climbing gyms has grown by 50% between 2007 and 2012 along with the "1000 people a day that join the sport of rock climbing." Also, there are about 450 dedicated rock climbing gyms in the United States. I found it interesting that the sport of rock-climbing is gradually growing and these two friends are trying to make rock climbing more accessible to everyone.

Taylor Freds

2013-11-21 22:44:03 UTC

This article is about different types of pool related injures, mainly drowning going as far back as 2003. It also goes on to circulation entrapment injuries, as far back as 1990. I didn't realize that 9 people die everyday in the U.S. I didn't even know there was such a thing as circulation entrapment.

Allie Fultz

2013-11-21 23:15:55 UTC

I found this article interesting because i never thought of finding out the statistics of a group of fans of a certain genre. In this article they mention how country music fans are usually of age 45 and they have an annual income of $75,392. At the end of the article they say how country music fans are just like the typical american which without all of the numbers is what i figured they were anyway.

Isabel Lebowitz

2013-11-22 00:46:02 UTC

This article is about The University of Cincinnati and their basic reasons why someone should choose to further their education with them. They include information such as their college ranking, their population, and the cost to attend. Then, it is followed with qualitative reasoning as to why they are one of the best. I think they did a great job at convincing people through the information they presented.

Sarah Moore

2013-11-22 01:19:12 UTC

This article is about how people prefer texting over calling. The younger you are, the more likely you will prefer texting over calling someone. Parents always tell their children to not be texting so much, but that is the cultural norm compared to back then when phone calls was the main form of communication. Along with texting, comes the fact that kids are losing their ability to communicate verbally with someone. Texting has diminished their social abilities, and they are no longer comfortable being one on one with someone.

Alex Wilhelm

2013-11-22 01:28:13 UTC

In this article about bullying it's becoming more and more frequent today in locations like schools and online media, according to recent bullying statistics. 46 percent of males followed with 26 percent of females have admitted to being a victim in fights. This was reported in one report of bullying statistics by the Bureau of Justice School. I think these numbers are interesting because I didn't realize how high the number were, I would have assumed they had dropped.

Katie Hart

2013-11-22 01:41:22 UTC

This article is about how most people in society think men are better drivers when really, women drivers are. The article said that 80 percent of all crashes in a five-year period in which pedestrians were seriously injured or killed involved men who were driving. It also says that men are more likely to drink and take drugs while driving which I found interesting.

Molly Scaggs

2013-11-22 01:49:51 UTC

This article is all about the population of registered nurses in the U.S.. What i found interesting was that

There are 3,063,162 licensed registered nurses in the United States and also approximately 294,063 RNs are men only 9.6% of the total nursing population. This was surprising to me because not a lot of men are nurses. This shows a huge opportunity for men in this field.

2013-11-22 02:16:00 UTC

The article talks about how Americans still eat fast food like they are addicted to it. The theme of the article is that Americans with higher incomes will go to the drive though at least once a week. Most Americans cant seem to stop doing it because it has become easy to get it and go. Something that interested me was that over half of Americans that make $75,000 go to the drive through at least once a week. Another thing that was interesting was that about 80% of Americans go to the drive through once a month

Ignacio Gonzalez

2013-11-22 02:34:12 UTC

This article is about a new statistical analysis done by NASA in 2011 that shows an increase in extreme summer heat in land areas in the last decades in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in the U.S. Midwest. I found it surprising that the percentage of area that suffer from extremely hot summers increased almost 50% between the last decade and the base period (1951-1980). I also found surprising that the extremely warm spots were not really close to the Equator as we would expect. Instead, they are located up north, in places like Alaska, Canada and Northern Russia

Kevin Carr

2013-11-22 03:16:25 UTC

This article is about the number of people arrested for driving under the influence in Colorado. 31,000 drunk drivers are caught every year just in Colorado. I found it surprising that about 1/3 of them have already been arrested for a DUI in the past year. I also found it interesting that about half of those drunk drivers have had at least 3 other offenses in the past 3 years.

Rachel Frogge

2013-11-22 03:42:59 UTC

This article is about the models hired for the New York Fashion Week shows. This article points out that statistics show that since 2008, for each season, more that 80% of the models hired were white. This surprised me because I assumed with the growing diversity in the US that designers would be hiring more models with different ethnicities than white. I was also surprised that top designers like Calvin Klein had hired no models of color because I assumed he would to appeal to the consumers that were of those ethnicities.

Connor Bryan

2013-11-22 03:50:18 UTC

This article is about how professional baseball players raising money for people in slavery. Major league pitcher Jeremy Affeldt pledged 250$ last season for every strikeout he pitched. I found it interesting that there are 30 million people living in slavery today. There are 17 pitchers that have joined Affeldt in pledging this next season for each strikeout they throw.

Haley Hopkins

2013-11-22 03:51:01 UTC

This article discusses data that show that more than 2/3 of wireless 9-1-1 calls in Texas came in without accurate location information. I was surprised to see that the percentage of calls with phase II data dropped 33%, even though the amount of wireless calls coming in increased. I also think it's scary that 67% of wireless 9-1-1 calls in Texas don't provide accurate location information, which is obviously crucial to helping the caller.

Tyler Morris

2013-11-22 10:56:39 UTC

This Article shows the percentage of people around the United States that are currently participating in any physical sport or exercise on an average day. The graphs provided shows the different percentages by region in the United States. The highest percentage of people ages 15 years and older who are engaged in sports or exercise on a average day is about 20%. I feel like this article really shows how important exercise is, especially in our day in age. I found the percntgaes conduced surprisingly low.

John Rye

2013-11-22 11:50:32 UTC

The article I read had to do with bullying and how it has gone from physical abuse to mental abuse. The mental abuse causes about 14% of kids to react in a severe manner. Another interesting thing I read was that, in the opinion of the author, bullying has increased in the past couple of years.

Molly Tucke

2013-11-22 12:41:10 UTC

This article is about the most dangerous times to be on the road. It tells about the days of the year when most teens die in car accidents. This is very interesting to look at because if you think about it the conditions are the worst in the winter with the ice and snow that cover the roads. In reality though the most teen deaths are during the summer months.

Breanne Gibb

2013-11-22 13:18:59 UTC

This article is about how students that participate in sschool sports are less likely to get in trouble and have a positive impact on society. High schools that have strong school sport participation, have lower major crime rates and fewer suspensions. I didn't realize how much of an impact school sports have a community and the students.

Alex Bourgeois

2013-11-22 13:40:24 UTC

This article is about how Chemotherapy has caused many people to die. What i found interesting was that 1 of every 4 deaths of a study of 600 cancer patients deaths were sped up or caused by chemotherapy. I was also suprised to find out that in the same study, 2 out of 5 patients got severe poisoning from the treatment. It makes you think about if that kind of treatment is actually worth it.

Austin Horwarth

2013-11-23 23:52:22 UTC

This article is about how many marriages end up in divorce. What I found interesting was that 50% of marriages end in divorce, but 60% of second marriages end in divorce. also, 70% of third marriages end up in divorce, proving that the chances of getting divorced increases every time you get married. This makes me think that getting married once is enough.

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Nicole Hartshorn

2013-11-25 01:46:59 UTC

This article is about the different statistics on gun crime in the united states. What I found interesting about the article is that despite having less than 5% of the worlds population, the United States has around 35-50% of the world's civilian owned guns. I also found it interesting that the United States has 88 firearms per 100 people, and California has the highest gun crime rate out of all the states. It truly illustrates our issues on guns in the United States.

Josh Grant

jgrant2014 — 2013-11-25 02:22:22 UTC

In this article it talks about the odds of you winning a soccer game at home or away. One thing that surprised me was during the playoffs the win percentage at home goes up significantly. Also how low the percentage for winning away games was.

Kassy Thorp

2013-11-25 03:26:02 UTC

This article talks about divorce rates, and how they have started increasing over the years. I found it interesting that in the 80's a full 81% of college graduates who got hitched in that decade at age 26 or older were still married 20 years later. Only 65% of college grads who said I do before their 26th birthday made it that far

Read more: Are Marriage Statistics Divorced from Reality? - TIME http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1989124,00.html#ixzz2lcm0Eg98

Alexis Bowden

2013-11-25 14:11:08 UTC

The theme of this article is about drunk drivers and the fatalities that occur when in an accident involving a drunken person.

1. Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 31% of the total vehicle traffic fatalities.

2. Among the people killed in these drunk driving crashes, 66% were drivers (6,507), 27% were motor vehicle occupants (2,661), and 7% were non-occupants.