I'm not quite finished analyzing the data from last week's Casual Friday's study and I've got some personal business to attend to this afternoon, so I'm going to have to postpone my writeup of the results until tomorrow. Sorry!
One item of interest from today's results: Some commenters this morning wanted to know what percentage of our readers are Americans. Here's the breakdown based on this study (however I think it's quite possible that non-Americans weren't as interested in this study as usual):
So 78 percent of our readers are U.S. Citizens living in the U.S., and just 12 percent are non-citizen, non-U.S. residents.
However, for our geography quiz Casual Friday, about 30 percent of readers said they weren't from the US.
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I wonder how many people this week realized that "ten percent down" followed by "ten percent up" does not equal "no change." Probably a few. And how many realized that "ten percent down" followed by "ten percent up" is the same as "ten percent up" followed by "ten percent down"?
A list of the top most satisfying jobs was just released by
John Allen Paulos' column at ABC News is up and it's quite interesting.
Sadly, I'm not talking about the desire to learn. A recent survey of teachers (pdf) revealed the following about hunger in the U.S. classroom:
Maybe they were embarrassed.