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It is not as accurate to claim that on average full-time working women earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. A more accurate claim using the proper mathmatical nomenclature would be ...
In 2011, the median full-time year-round* working female age 15+ earned 77 percent of what the median full-time year-round working male age 15+ earned.
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King brought in $1.33 billion in revenue from its "Candy Crush Saga" property alone in calendar year 2014. If we were to divide this out daily to 1 million children in Africa, that would be approximately $3.64 per child per day (($1.33billion/1million)/365days).
The cost to feed a child in Africa seems to vary wildly from source to source, searching ...
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The source is reference 4 of the August 2012 NRDC paper, specifically The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and
Its Environmental Impact PLOS One (2009). The 40% for United States is specifically attributed to this reference in line 4 of the NRDC executive summary (page 4 of the paper).
The PLOS article, particularly Fig. 1D and the ...
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Suicide: Yes (New York Times, study), but not just millennials:
Suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in nearly 30 years, a federal data analysis has found, with increases in every age group except older adults. The rise was particularly steep for women. It was also substantial among middle-aged Americans...
Accidental Drug ...
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We don't know
From PolitiFact:
Just before Obama took office in 2009, the Department of Labor released a study because, as a deputy assistant secretary explained it, "The raw wage gap continues to be used in misleading ways to advance public policy agendas without fully explaining the reasons behind the gap." The study by CONSAD Research Corp. took ...
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Short answer: Probably not. Looking at international comparisons of strike statistics (as paradigmatic with other forms of protest, which may or not be valid), South Africa does not rank 'top', regardless of how protests (here, strikes) are counted.
Slightly longer answer: By regarding all police-recorded protests over a 17-year period, this paper (...
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I was asking myself the same question and found this experiment about how the ability to produce humor is correlated with the ability to mate.
The way humor is measured here is again something with cartoons: people are asking to complete as much cartoon as possible and then all those cartoons are rated by judges. For each participant the best cartoon gives ...
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It is very difficult to give an estimate. Beggars in Sweden are estimated to make 80 SEK (about 9.6 USD) an hourSR or between 1000-2000 SEK a monthSvD that would give an annual income of 2875 USD. Quite far from six figures.
Five or six years ago the Stockholm police checked beggars on commuter trains. They concluded that the beggars could get together ...
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There have been efforts made to quantify number of protests based on some benchmarks of comparison, see A Global Standard for Reporting Conflict which summarizes such an approach as follows, emphasis mine:
propose an innovative conceptualisation of journalistic epistemology
in which ‘social truths’ can be identified as the basis for the
journalistic ...
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