quelques stats extraites du harper du mois dernier:

Number of U.S. counties where more than a fifth of "residents" are
prison inmates: 21Prison Policy Initiative (Northampton, Mass.)
Number of these that are in Texas: 10 [Prison Policy Initiative
(Northampton, Mass.)]

Portion of New York Senate districts that would not meet the minimum
population level without their inmates: 1/9[Prison Policy Initiative
(Northampton, Mass.)]


Percentage of Democrats and Republicans, respectively, who say the
Iraq war was "worth fighting": 4, 84[M.I.T. Public Opinion Research
Training Lab (Cambridge, Mass.)]

Total projected cost of the war per U.S. household, based on a
January estimate: $19,600Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University (N.Y.C.)

Number of suicide bombings known to have been carried out by
Iranians: 0Robert Pape, University of Chicago

Percentage of African-American families that have zero or negative
net worth: 31Edward N. Wolff, New York University


Percentage change in the amount of housework done by women after they
marry for the first time: +17[Sanjiv Gupta, University of Michigan
(Ann Arbor)]

Percentage change in the amount done by men: ‒33[Sanjiv Gupta,
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)]

Chances that a Japanese person will make eye contact during
conversation with another Japanese person: 2 in 5[Karl MacDorman,
Indiana University School of Informatics (Indianapolis)]

Chances that he or she will make eye contact during conversation with
a robot: 3 in 5[Karl MacDorman, Indiana University School of
Informatics (Indianapolis)]