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Seth Friedman

American Dudes and Fast Food - 7 views

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    Why are straws included in the most loved things at McDonalds? Wouldn't straws be included in Shakes? Although I guess you can eat a shake with a spoon :P Secondly, McDonalds is ubiquitous. How can they make conclusions about customer's "loyalty" when some people may not even have a chipotle, the restaurant with the lowest "loyalty", near them? anyqs
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    anyqs I'm curious about the socioeconomic status of the customers and how they order off the menu. From my experience as a McDonald's employee, the lower-income bracket orders off the dollar menu, while families order value-meals and kids-meals, but that's just personal observations. I am curious to see if there is an actual relationship between the two.
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    anyqs Im curious as how they can even begin to compare McDonalds and Chipotle in the first place? It would have been easier for them to just compare them to eating at a non fast food restaurant than a specific one. SOme of the people sampled might not even enjoy chipotle. Also, I dont understand why the hot sauce portion is even included in the data. It doesn't seem to correlate with the rest of the data.
Violetta Vylegzhanina

Pampered Pets - 0 views

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    Despite the recession, Americans are spending more on their beloved pets than ever before.
Tyler Cooksey

GOOD.is | The Changing American Dream (Scaling) - 0 views

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    What money means to each generation.
Omotoyosi Taiwo

America's View on Evolution and Creationism (Infographic) | BioLogos - 1 views

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    The BioLogos Forum is pleased to present this infographic about science and faith in America. The graphic, titled "America's View on Evolution and Creationism," uses data from Gallup Research, The New York Times, and the Pew Research Center to show what Americans currently believe about the origins of humans.
Robert Jackson

Pick your poison - 10 views

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    That's a pretty nice segmented bar chart on the right.
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    anyqs How many people did they sample, and did they just find them at bars?
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    There seems to be a trend that the lower income bracket prefers beer and the higher income bracket prefers wine. What I find interesting is that all incomes prefer liquor equally. I wonder why this is true? Also it says that last year they surveyed people about their preferences but where did they get the data for previous years? Lastly, it states no information on how reliable the data is or what method of sampling was used. anyqs
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    anyqs: I would like to know how big the sample size was. Also, how many of the participants are actual college students? I'd like to see the data on purely college students.
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    anyqs: I would definitely like to see some more info on this, the things mentioned above as well as what N/A actually means. Does it mean non drinker? Also I'm guessing that they did not poll anyone under 21. I think there's more non-drinkers than drinkers under 21 but including that group would certainly change things (most likely lessen the wine numbers). Finally, it's not a big deal but the 36% for beer in 2011 appears higher up on the graph than the 36% in 2005.
Derek Bruff

U.S. Science Degrees Are Up: Scientific American - 3 views

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    anyqs: The article says "more women are entering college, which in turn is changing the relative popularity of disciplines," but doesn't say exactly what percentage of degrees awarded in each discipline go to women. I'm wondering what that percentage is. It would have been nice to have seen the number of degrees awarded to women and men in each discipline visualized with the number of degrees awarded.
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    anyqs: It is true that more students are earning science degrees than they did twenty years ago, but it is also true that more students are earning degrees, period. Note the growth in arts, music, and business degrees awarded. It would be good to know the percentage of the total increase in degrees awarded for each discipline.
Nithin Kumar

College Attendance Decreases Chances for Marriage - 1 views

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    This is an example of empirical probability since researchers followed a sample of 3200 Americans from adolescence into adulthood.
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