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Open Question: the apparel women wear vs causes of rape?

with the apparel women wear today vs back when vs the cause of per say "rape" or "molestation", or other crimes of this sort. before moving forward, i will try my best not to knock nor show any disrespect or being inconsiderate to victims of , i think it is wrong. i haven't yet seen statistics of rape or cases as they evolved, or when per say the first reported case of. i will be looking for however I honestly am not trying to judge any one, not trying to be perverted in anyway what so ever. Not knocking freedom, not trying to knock anything, not saying not to wear what your little heart desires not trying to be prude, out of date, i am straight, just posing hypothetical questions. maybe i should leave them alone but to get people thinking. But with the clothes you wear now a days, be it too low, showing cleavage, up too high showing well you know.. or too tight, leaving no room for imagination. what is the deal. not pointing, not blaming, not bashing. i am not saying to or not too wear what you want. i am merely stating or posing the question, to get some understanding. it could make you look less then you could be a true, real person, Fake almost. not real, putting on a show to get attention, do you want to be looked at and admired. are you advertising, i mean when stores want to sell the merchandise they advertise it, put it on display. honestly could it not make you look cheap. sluttish almost. i mean, if you don't want men looking, don't wear clothes like that. so why wear clothes like that? WHY? to put it like this, say a store wants to sale a product, unless they put up displays or advertisements no one may know that they have a particular product they are trying to sale, they go out of business, no one buys that product or don't sell enough. ok say a yard sale or garage sale, unless you put signs up or put ad in local paper. how many customers would you get. no one would know, you might get some, but unless you lure that buyer or customer in, using that illustration, , . just stating, "COULD" it be ... the apparel .... that is worn, be luring, or tempting or EVEN enticing to persay to a predator looking for, i mean what attracted the predator to begin with, beyond being a sicko person, but something lured or attracted that sicko to do what he/she did, WHAT? i have asked this question before and i got a response of wearing a bikini, ok, so you change the fabric and color perhaps what is difference in undergarments vs a bikini. i mean probably would not won't to be caught dead out side in your undergarments but go outside in bikini, showing same amount. not bashing, just questioningno, no one has been rape, but "COULD", the apparent clothing being worn .... provoke ...., not saying will or won't but "could", i am just merely posing questions more

Open Question: Need help on statistics problem?

Identify whether the following problems can be solved by counting principle, permutation, or by combination the solve. in how many ways an write reports on 3 of the 6 most recent country president for your history class.Also please explain how you come up with the answer. thanks in advance. more

Open Question: Has Reality done a Hit-n-Run on "Hope and Change"?

Bad statistics for summer employment for youth Economic Growth Rate Downgraded to Anemic 1.6 Percent in Second Quarter Not Even Bush Can Save Democrats From the Failing Economy Intel lowers sales forecast amid gloomy economy Trouble for Silicon Valley's tech economy: PC demand slides Plunge in Home Sales Stokes Economy Fears U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Says Economic Recovery In Doubt Sales of new homes down 12.4 per cent in July Homelessness Up 50% In New York City U.S. Auto Sales May Hit 28-Year Low as Discounts Flop Weak economy flattens US yield curve Dismal durables help safe-haven bonds Obama Weekly Job Approval Average at New Low of 43% GOP Maintains Edge in Midterm Voting Preferences ***Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 of the important issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. *** http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/08/27/99763/bad-statistics-for-summer-employment.html http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brandon-greife/2010/08/26/not-even-bush-can-save-democrats-from-the-failing-economy http://www.thehindu.com/business/companies/article600233.ece http://www.gallup.com/poll/142634/Obama-Weekly-Job-Approval-Average-New-Low.aspx http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/nyc/homelessness-up-in-new-york-city-20100830-lgf http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-31/auto-sales-in-u-s-may-be-worst-in-28-years-in-august-as-buyers-shun-deals.html8 Year Iraqi War = $709 Billion (b4 interest) 2 Year "Stimulus"=$862 Billion (b4 interest)Liberals.. come out, come out where-ever you are more

Open Question: Im doing Quantitative Methods, but this assignment seems odd. Can anyone Verify?

Question 1 The globe and mail (Canada) reported that 40% of those surveyed (1300 adults) ate in Sushi restaurants from one to five times each month. (a)What is the implied population? 1300 (b)What is the sample? 0.4x1300+520 Question 2 Identify the levels of measurement (Ordinal, Nominal or Interval) of the following variables: (i) The reaction time of a martial art fighter to an attack. Interval (ii) Course evaluation scale for QM: poor, acceptable, good. Ordinal (iii) The position of the Canadians in the National Hockey league. Nominal (iv) A person’s occupation as classified by Statistics Canada (Managerial and professional, technical sales….) Ordinal (v) The pressure in pounds per square inch required to crack a specimen of copper tubing Nominal (vi) The species of each insect found in a sample plot of cropland. Nominal Question 3 An advertising firm conducts a sample survey to adult react to various adjectives that might be used to describe an automobile. The firm chooses 400 men from across the country. Each man is read a list of adjectives, such as ‘elegant’ and prestigious. For each adjective he must indicate how desirable a car described seems to him. The possible answers he can give (i) highly desirable, (2) somewhat desirable (3) neutral and (4) not desirable. (a)What is the population in this sample survey? 400 (b)What is the dependent variable? Desire depends on the man (c)What type of measurement scale does the response variable have? Only men, not overlapping, Nominal more

Open Question: Hey im doing quantitative methods, but not sure if it was done right. Seems a little odd.?

Resolved Question: Do some supporters of illegal aliens think twisting the truth helps their argument?

Earlier, I asked why some supporters of illegal aliens claim illegal aliens don't receive free medical care, when they do. I supplied a link to support my information from a story printed in the New York Times. To my utter amazement, someone actually claimed the Times is a Conservative newspaper! Whaaaatttt???? So, are the Rasmussen Reports also Conservative biased? Rasmussen poll: 25% of libs see liberal bias/ only 17% conservative bias (in the New York Times) http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu15t1HtMEa… "Start with the editorial page, so thoroughly saturated in liberal theology that when it occasionally strays from that point of view the shocked yelps from the left overwhelm even the ceaseless rumble of disapproval from the right." This is a quote from the New York Times. (http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oG77VFOXxM1AQBSJ9XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzNnJrazZxBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA0Y2NTRfMTMy/SIG=13a8m1du3/EXP=1283295941/**http%3a//www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html%3fpagewanted=all%26position) Then, they love to argue that crime in the border cities are lower than other cities, adding that illegals engage in less crime than citizens. Here's a link from an ABC News interview that suggests the crime is lower in those cities because the illegals don't stay in the border cities, they move across the country: “One reason is that illegals aren’t staying here anymore,” said Valley resident Joann Budziszewski. “They are moving to other parts of the country. They come through and they leave.” http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geuw4p.ntMlxwBq6BXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByMTNuNTZzBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkAw--/SIG=13o7oitf1/EXP=1283279785/**http%3a//www.abc15.com/dpp/news/state/fbi-report-on-crime-in-border-states-shows-surprising-statistics No, don't tell me- ABC News also is biased toward Conservatives! Yeah, they provide their links, too; but somehow, their links are always to some liberal or pro-illegal alien site. Yet, if someone who opposes illegal immigration provide links from liberal sources, watch them denounce those sources as unreliable. Unbelievable! So, are the supporters of illegal immigration delusional, or do they only believe facts when it suits their cause? more

Resolved Question: We all know American citizens commit crimes, so what's your point?

Any time the subject of crimes committed by illegal aliens is presented, the supporters of the illegals counter with, "Crimes are committed by citizens, too!" or, "What about the crimes committed by Americans?" We know this. That is why we don't mind when our tax money goes to law enforcement agencies with the expectation that crime is prevented, criminals are apprehended and punished. So, what is the point they are trying to make? We have enough crime in our country, admittedly committed by some of our own citizens. Why shouldn't we be outraged by crimes committed by people who shouldn't even be here in the first place? Btw, for those of you who like to argue that crime is down in the border states, have you considered... “One reason is that illegals aren’t staying here anymore,” said Valley resident Joann Budziszewski. “They are moving to other parts of the country. They come through and they leave.” http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geuw4p.ntMlxwBq6BXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByMTNuNTZzBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkAw--/SIG=13o7oitf1/EXP=1283279785/**http%3a//www.abc15.com/dpp/news/state/fbi-report-on-crime-in-border-states-shows-surprising-statistics more

Resolved Question: Please help on THIS ONE statistics assignment.?

For each problem below, answer the following 1. State the Ho 2. State the H1 3. Find the critical value 4. Determine the test statistic. Explain 5. State the decision rule 6. Show the decision rule graphically 7. Determine the computed value of the test statistic 8. Determine the p-value 9. What is your decision? 10. Interpret the decision 5. A recent insurance industry report indicated that 40 percent of those persons involved in minor traffic accidents this year have been involved in a least one other traffic accident in the last five years. An advisory group decided to investigate this claim, believing it was too large. A sample of 200 traffic accidents this year showed 74 persons were also involved in another accident within the last five years. Use the .01 significance level. more

Voting Question: Would you allow your child to have Gardasil? Are you aware of the dangers?

mY 13 year old daughter was injured by Gardasil and completely disabled for the past year. Merck got it right when they used the slogan "One Less" for Gardasil. Because of Gardasil, my daughter was "One Less". She was "One Less Student", "One Less Active Child", "One Less in every aspect of her life". Take it from a mother who has spent the past year sitting by my child's bedside wondering if she would die in her sleep. INVESTIGATE BEFORE YOU VACCINATE. DO NOT trust your doctor to make this decision. If you want to understand Merck's role in the medical community, investigate some of their former wonderdrugs such as VIOXX and then marvel at how many people died from it before it was pulled off the market. The CDC AND FDA need to do their job and get this off the market before more children are harmed. The public is not aware of VAERS and the #'s are grossly understated. I have had to tell my child's doctors about VAERS and make them file reports or she would not be one of the current statistics in VAERS. Even then, her information has not been entered correctly so I know that VAERS is not what it should be. Please do not let this happen to your child. more

Voting Question: Can you trust "violent crime statistics" from MusIim countries?

There are MANY "murders" in Muslim countries that are not considered murders there but that WE would consider murders here. Stonings, "honor killings," beheadings... those are murders here. But not there. Cutting off fingers and limbs and noses is a crime here. But not there. Can you trust the violent crime statistics reported from this countries?This question was asked in response to a question that stated violent crime statistics in Muslim-countries are less than those in the US.@Jakc: Exactly. In fact they are MORE violent but just reported differently.@Last True Paladin: See above as to why this question was asked. more

Voting Question: Did anybody see this & opinions please Human trafficking second only to drugs in Mexico?

This requires a few minutes to read>please skip if you cannot read for more than 3o seconds.(CNN) -- Mario Santos likely never made it to the United States. The 18-year-old set out 10 years ago from his native El Salvador in search of opportunity and a better way of life. But he had to travel north through Mexico first. A short while after leaving, he called his parents to tell them he had been beaten and robbed in Mexico, left penniless and without shoes or clothes. It was the last they heard from him. While it's not certain that Santos is dead, he probably suffered the same fate as 72 migrants from Central and South America whose bodies were found this week in a ranch in northern Mexico, just 90 miles from the U.S. border. Officials are investigating whether they were the victims of human traffickers or drug cartels that prey on migrants. It's a fate that officials say befalls thousands of Central and South Americans every year. "It's brutal," says Peter Hakim, president emeritus of the Inter-American Dialogue, a non-partisan Washington policy institute. "This is very big business. It's very brutal." Video: 72 bodies found in Mexican ranch RELATED TOPICS Mexico Human Rights Drug Trafficking It is indeed big business. Human trafficking is one of the most lucrative forms of crime worldwide after drug and arms trafficking, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said in April. In Mexico, it is a $15 billion- to $20 billion-a-year endeavor, second only to drug trafficking, said Samuel Logan, founding director of Southern Pulse, an online information network focused on Latin America. "And that may be a conservative estimate," Logan said. That money, which used to go mostly to smugglers, now also flows into the hands of drug cartel members. The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan, nonprofit policy institute based in Washington, noted in an August report that human smuggling and other illegal activities are playing an increasingly important role as narcotraffickers diversify their activities. "The drug cartels have not confined themselves to selling narcotics," the report said. "They engage in kidnapping for ransom, extortion, human smuggling and other crimes to augment their incomes." Some cartels have come to rely more in recent years on human smuggling. "For the Zetas, it's been one of their main revenue streams for years," Logan said about the vicious cartel, which operates mostly in northeastern Mexico. Cartel involvement has increased the risk for migrants crossing through Mexico to get to the United States, said Mexico's National Commission for Human Rights. An investigation by the commission showed that 9,758 migrants were abducted from September 2008 to February 2009, or about 1,600 per month. No one knows exactly how many people try to make the passage every year. The human rights organization Amnesty International estimates it as tens of thousands. More than 90 percent of them are Central Americans, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, Amnesty International said in a report this year. And the vast majority of these migrants, the rights group said, are headed for the United States. "Their journey is one of the most dangerous in the world," Amnesty International said. "Every year, thousands of migrants are kidnapped, threatened or assaulted by members of criminal gangs," the rights group said. "Extortion and sexual violence are widespread and many migrants go missing or are killed. Few of these abuses are reported and in most cases those responsible are never held to account." An indication of how many people attempt the trip can be found in statistics compiled by Mexico's National Migration Service, which tracks how many migrants are detained and returned to their countries of origin each year. Experts note that these are only the migrants who get caught, and that many -- even most -- are not apprehended. Nonetheless, the Mexican agency said it detained 64,061 migrants last year, 60,383 of whom were from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. About 20 percent of them were females and about 8 percent were under the age of 18. Some were under 10. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/26/mexico.human.trafficking/#fbid=v96fLsfRr0L&wom=true Good thing Obama has the border secured more

Resolved Question: Death Penalty Question?

I'm doing some research on the Death Penalty in the United States. I was looking for statistics on the Death Penalty. More specifically, I was looking for cost statistics on the death penalty. I have read several reports saying it actually costs less for life imprisonment as opposed to the costs associated with the endless appeals process that takes place when someone is given the Death Penalty. If anyone has info on this, please let me know. more

Resolved Question: Please help statistics class!?

Can someone help me with this problem please and possible explain a little bit if you can. I understand it I THINK, but not quite getting it. Can someone help? For each problem below, answer the following 1. State the Ho 2. State the H1 3. Find the critical value 4. Determine the test statistic. Explain 5. State the decision rule 6. Show the decision rule graphically 7. Determine the computed value of the test statistic 8. Determine the p-value 9. What is your decision? 10. Interpret the decision 4. Traditionally, two percent of the citizens of the United States live in a foreign country because they are disenchanted with U.S. politics or social attitudes. In order to test if this proportion has increased since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, U.S. consulates contacted a random sample of 400 of these expatriates. The sample yields 12 people who report they are living overseas because of political or social attitudes. Can you conclude this data shows the proportion of politically motivated expatriates has increased? Use the 0.05 significance level. more

Resolved Question: Various studies for men and women in the USA show more men than women are either Gay or Bi?

The famous Kinsey Institute report often is cited as evidence that 10% of the population is homosexual. In his book, Is It a Choice?: Answers to 300 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gays and Lesbians, Eric Marcus used the Kinsey studies to demonstrate that one in ten people is homosexual (1993). In truth, Kinsey never reported figures that high. The Kinsey Report clearly stated that: “Only about 4 percent of the men [evaluated] were exclusively homosexual throughout their entire lives.... Only 2 or 3 percent of these women were exclusively homosexual their entire lives” (see Reinisch and Beasley, 1990, p. 140). However, there is good reason to believe that the real percentage is not even this high. While no one has carried out a door-to-door census, we do have a fairly accurate estimate. Interestingly, these statistics came to light in an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26, 2003, in the Lawrence vs. Texas case (commonly known as the Texas sodomy case). On page 16 of this legal brief, footnote 42 revealed that 31 homosexual and pro-homosexual groups admitted the following: The most widely accepted study of sexual practices in the United States is the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS). The NHSLS found that 2.8% of the male, and 1.4% of the female population identify themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual (Laumann, et al., 1994). The study also found that only 0.9% of men and 0.4% of women reported having only same-sex partners since age 18—a figure that would represent a total of only 1.4 million Americans as homosexual (based on the last census report, showing roughly 292 million people living in America). The resulting accurate figures demonstrate that significantly less than one percent of the American population claims to be homosexual. The NHSLS results are similar to a survey conducted by the Minnesota Adolescent Health Survey (1986) of public school students. The survey showed that only 0.6% of the boys and 0.2% of the girls identified themselves as “mostly or 100% homosexual.” The 2000 census sheds even more light on the subject. The overall statistics from the 2000 Census Bureau revealed: * The total population of the U.S. is 285,230,516. * The total number of households in the U.S. is 106,741,426. * The total number of unmarried same-sex households is 601,209. Thus, out of a population of 106,741,426 households, homosexuals represent 0.42% of those households. That is less than one half of one percent! There was a BBC poll across many countries and it only received an 8% bisexuality/lesbian from women. A whopping 92% were not. Men fair little better but perhaps most men would not own up to that one in the UKEDUCATIONAL DEAR CHAPDuh some of the sources are cited. I don't know what your problem is go find it yourself and go see my other Questions on page 2 on my profile. And Beaner that only makes for more men who are gay or bi then doesn't it. more

Resolved Question: Addition to "What does chiropractic "treat"?

A health care industry is not rated based upon its merits for its lack of death rates. I fully support a health care arena that embraces the best of everything to the end of benefiting the patient. Now it is said that medicine is more dangerous than chiro. This is merely a numbers game. Chiros do not have life threatening cases present to the office whereas medical/ER does (in great numbers) and in the normal course of life death does occur. What I find intriguing is how the alt med haters will thump the book of scientific literature when referring to alt med and saying it is not "proven" but when this death rate comes up there is no literature in the scientific community that can show us any statistics about the death rate of chiropractic care, but it is clearly published about death rates due to iatrogenic causes and the like. For example, according to a 1996 British Medical Journal report, "Americans were shocked when it was revealed that as many as three million hospital patients are injured or killed each year because of medical accidents and that 30% of all those patients experienced adverse drug reactions." But lets not pull out the death card when comparing our two distinguished professions. Let us compare the merits. It is without a doubt the medical profession is a vital and necessary part of society and culture. At the same time there is room for chiropractic care for those that wish to seek it. Chiro is mainly known for neuro-muscular conditions and it does very well in that arena. The literature says it is as effective if not slightly more effective that interventional medicine ie drugs, surgery, physical therapy. So if you have a health care model that can effectively handle something like lower back pain, which costs the US economy approx $100 million, is the # one reason that people call in sick to work and is the # 2 reason why people visit their doctor, then why dont you let it do it? At every corner and at every avenue there has to be some nurse, or medical doctor screaming how bad chiro care is or minimizing its efficacy! On June 16, 2009, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius submitted a report to Congress, evaluating chiropractic services under Medicare. A survey was conducted of 3,464 people seeking chiro care for pain and/or difficulty walking, whose symptoms were described as severe or very severe, with 2/3 of those patients reporting that their symptoms "interfered considerably" in their usual daily activities. They were treated with chiro adjustments and various physical therapy modalities like EMS, ultrasound, ice and heat.The astonishing results (to those outside chiro, anyway) were as follows: of the approximately 2500 people who responded to the survey, 60% of the respondents got “complete” or “a lot” of symptomatic relief from chiro care, with 87% reporting a satisfaction rating of 8, 9, or 10. The patients who received “moderate” or “complete” relief from treatment by other strategies, like pills, injections, or surgery was 11%. If my math is right, then it’s about five times more likely that a patient suffering from severe neuro-musculo-skeletal symptoms will respond to chiro care than any other discipline. If I was suffering from severe neuro-musculo-skeletal symptoms, I think I’d want to know that. Put aside the likelihood of iatrogenic consequences and side effects, or the cost-effectiveness, let’s just look at these outcomes for a second. If you were hurting, wouldn’t you want the approach that gave five times better results? Dr. Narson comments, “Chiropractic is clearly validated as an effective form of treatment for those with neuro-musculo-skeletal conditions such as back pain, neck pain, hip pain and shoulder pain. It’s time that the medical profession – welcomes chiropractic physicians as partners in the treatment of these conditions for the benefit of the patient." I fully believe in medicine when applied appropriately just like I believe that chiro care should be applied appropriately. I do not agree with the chiros out there who scream and rant that chiro care "cure" or "treat" diseases. I do not agree with the perversion of the medical field that over medicates patients simply because the patients are demanding it. I hope that some of the people who post on this forum who attack alt med can simply put down the pitchfork of hate and ask themselves how does spewing hate and deference help anybody? The power you wield as a person of education and as a nurse or doctor deserves the respect of an open mind. How do you know that something you write may resonate with a person in the public and cause them to make a choice that may not benefit them 100%? You owe it to yourself, your profession and your patients to have a full toolbox at your disposal, not just one that fits your needs. It is not your need but rather the need of the patient that comes first. This @ Rhianna: I emailed you to let you know that you have been unblocked. Are you saying that the report delivered by HHS is invalid? It clearly shows that chiro is nearly 5x more effective for LBP!! The meta-analysis you indicate shows no vast difference?? Lets be reasonable...you compare a meta analysis to a study by HHS? Do you simply discard this study because it doesnt support you? You mention mild neuromusc and soft tissue only. Have you ever had an acute LBP or acute radiculitis that is unresponsive to conventional medicine? If not, there is nothing "mild" about it and it can be debilitating and life altering. I have seen many cases of the sort and have seen patients not only heal, but thrive in a chiropractic setting, drug free. Please be respectful for those that have and are dealing with acute spinal issues. "The interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered"- Dr. William J Mayo more

Voting Question: Stats help! The "w's" of an equation?

Alright so I'm taking an AP Stats course this coming year, and I'm been trying- unsuccessfully, to figure out the summer homework for months. So I decided to ask you ! to please help explain.(: The current chapter I'm working on focuses on understand and identifying the "W's" of Statistics- The Who, What, When, Where,Why & hoW when applicable. I'm going to add a sample problem & if you could please help me identify what is what & explain it would be greatly appreciated ! #3 , Owing to several major ocean oil spills by tank vessels, Congress passed the 1990 Oil Pollution Act, which requires all tankers to be designed with thicker hulls. Further improvement in the structural design of a tank vessel have been proposed since then, each with the objective of reducing the likelihood of an oil spill and decreasing the amount of outflow in the event of a hull puncture. To aid in this development, "Marine Technology" reported on the spillage amount and cause of puncture for 50 recent major oil spills from tankers & carriers. PS , to anybody's who gonna say stuff because I'm asking for homework help , I didn't even use a problem that was included on the assignment. more

Resolved Question: If Obama's deportation rate surpasses numbers from Bush, then why do some people say he's not doing his job?

or that he doesn't care to enforce immigration laws? I've heard some people on here say this, but Obama has deported way more people than Bush ever did, and he's focusing on people with more serious crimes. ========================== Obama's deportation rate surpasses numbers from Bush administration PHOENIX -- The Obama administration is deporting more illegal immigrants than even before, undermining blasts by Republicans, including Gov. Jan Brewer, that it is failing in its duty to deal with the problem. Statistics put together by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University show that more illegal immigrants were removed from the United States during the first nine months of this fiscal year than during the same period in 2008. That is when Republican George W. Bush was in the White House and his administration controlled Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In fact, the number of those ejected from the country between Oct. 1, 2009 and June 30 of this year is nearly twice as much as it was in the same period ending June 30, 2005. The TRAC report also shows that the Obama administration is devoting more of its resources to removing those who have committed serious crimes. Brewer's criticism of the Obama administration has been egged on by others. That includes former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin who said just days ago, "if our own president will not enforce our federal law, more power to Jan Brewer.' Source: http://www.verdenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubsectionID=1189&ArticleID=37678@ how_would, I think you need to re-read the article. I didn't miss a thing! more

Resolved Question: If there are five Immigrant Cities on list of top ten safest cities, why do people want to get rid of and stop?

as many immigrants as they can? The growing Anti-immigration movement is about getting rid of and stopping immigrants from coming to the US. So if there are 5 immigrant cities that are on the list of the top ten safest cities in America, why would anybody want to support the Anti-immigration Movement? ============================ Five Immigrant Cities on List of Top Ten Safest Cities Recently, an independent study listed the top ten safest cities in the United States based on FBI crime statistics in areas with populations over 500,000. Half of the cities that made the list are cities "largely populated by immigrants," and two are border cities. It turns out that if you are looking for a big city low on crime and high on probability of awesome food you might want to consider living in El Paso, Texas; New York, New York; San Jose, California; San Diego, California; or Los Angeles, California. They are safe because of immigration. Multiple studies throughout the past decade show that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans, and that immigration is partially responsible for decreases in homicide and robbery in places with large foreign-born populations. The city rankings come on the heels of another independent study, a recent polling of residents in border communities across Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and California. An overwhelming majority of border residents report feeling safe in their neighborhood, and it's not surprising because crime on the border has also been steadily decreasing. Living along the U.S. side of the border is actually one of the safest places to live. Read more: http://immigration.change.org/blog/view/five_immigrant_cities_on_list_of_top_ten_safest_cities more

Voting Question: Please help me with this statistics problem and explain how you came up with the answer!?

It was reported that a certain population had a mean of 27. To test this claim, you selected a random sample of size 100. The computed sample mean and sample standard deviation were 25 and 7, respectively. At the 0.05 level of significance, you can claim that the average of this population is:So, would the answer be... a. not equal to 25. b. equal to 25. c. not equal to 27. d. equal to 27. I'm thinking c. more

Voting Question: Please help me with this! Statistics!:(?

Suppose that on-the-job injuries in a textile mill occur at the rate of 0.1 per day. The management team of the textile mill needs to declare to the local government the projected number of on-the-job injuries next (5-day) workweek. Occupational Health law requires the declaration to be at least 98.5% accurate. On the other hand, the president of the company wants the management team to keep the declared number as low as possible, because the higher the projected number of on-the-job injuries, the more unnecessary attention from the authorities the mill will get. Given these considerations, what figure should the management team report? Assume that the occurrence of on-thejob injuries in the textile mill follows a Poission distribution. more

Resolved Question: Maths problem - statistics (uni).?

i just need to know what test to use out of: Two sample T test Paired T test F test for part a) and b), here's the question: In a study of twins the lifespan of a person who smokes is compared with that of their non-smoking twin. The results, in order are: smoking twin 62, 69, 70, 71, 74, 79, 83 non smoking twin: 61, 68,74, 73, 77, 80, 85 It is necessary to investigate two aspects of the experiment. a) decide what statistical test is appropriate to find whether smoking has statistically significant effect on lifespan. apply the test and report results. b) now disregard the fact that the measurements are from twins and repeat the process, comment on any differences in results. thnx.oh and if u can just explain why aswell? thnx. more

Resolved Question: What was the "Unintended Consequences" of this Liberal Policy?

http://archives.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/?u=102397-vp-announces-record-homeownership-level.htm http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=51448 Subprime Mortgage began in 1994 October 23, 1997 (From the Clinton Archives) In 1994, President Clinton, along with the National Partners in Homeownership, set a goal for the nation to achieve an all-time high homeownership rate by the year 2000. Today -- a full three years early -- the Census Bureau reported that in the third quarter of 1997 the homeownership rate climbed to its highest level ever. Here are some of the results from the Census report, as well as other housing-sector statistics: --In 1995, at the request of President Clinton, the Administration convened the National Partners in Homeownership to carry out a National Homeownership Strategy -- The Clinton Administration has cut FHA home mortgage insurance premiums four times --In 1999, under pressure from the Clinton administration, Fannie Mae, the nation's largest home mortgage underwriter, relaxed credit requirements on the loans it would purchase from other banks and lenders, hoping that easing these restrictions would result in increased loan availability for minority and low-income buyers. Putting pressure on the GSE's (Government Sponsored Enterprise) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Clinton administration looked to increase their sub-prime portfolios, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development expressing its interest in the GSE's maintaining a 50% portion of their portfolios in loans to low and moderate-income borrowers.[9] Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 1999 — In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. ***** Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring. *** --BUSH REGULATORY OVERHAUL OF FANNIE/FREDDIE BLOCKED BY DEMOCRATS http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html?pagewanted=all New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae By STEPHEN LABATON Published: September 11, 2003 WASHINGTON, Sept. 10— The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago. The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt -- is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors. --Supporters of the companies said efforts to regulate the lenders tightly under those agencies might diminish their ability to finance loans for lower-income families. -- ''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.'' Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed. ''I don't see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,'' Mr. Watt said.@ Wizard.. I know the truth hurts.. but I have provided links to everything. Including the Clinton Archives ! Man up and accept the truth more

Voting Question: Can any one Paraphrase this sentence?

In 1992, a United Nations report called job stress “The 20th century disease.” Similarly the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that it had become a “world wide epidemic.” In the decade since then, ongoing change, mergers, and organizational anorexia due to downsizings and ‘rightsizings’ has produced a workforce that is working harder, less able to balance work and home, more insecure about their future, far more stressed and far less productive. Current statistics explain that over the last 20 years, there has been grown recognition of job stress an important occupational health problem and even bigger problem than we credit it. In western society, work is the primary factor for stress. Although every industry and careers has its own unique set of problems and sources of stress, and each job carries its specific requirements, stress can be reduced. The question arises how do we reduce or overcome stress in our work environment and how do we take care of ourselves in order to cope in stressful environment (Cohen, 2001). It is widely recognized that stress is dynamic, and therefore, within an organizational context it needs to be continually evaluated and reviewed if organizations are to sustain and develop employee health and well being. (Cooper and Cartweright,1997) more

Resolved Question: I need some drinking and driving statistics?

I am doing a drivers ed project and I need some statistics/data for my report? Anything that involves teenage drinking and driving. Also, how is the problem being addrressed? And can you give me a few programs or clubs that are trying to solve the problem?? Thank you. :) more

Voting Question: In Blaming Bush, does Obama take advantage of an ignorant populace?

http://archives.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/?u=102397-vp-announces-record-homeownership-level.htm http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=51448 Subprime Mortgage began in 1994 October 23, 1997 (From the Clinton Archives) In 1994, President Clinton, along with the National Partners in Homeownership, set a goal for the nation to achieve an all-time high homeownership rate by the year 2000. Today -- a full three years early -- the Census Bureau reported that in the third quarter of 1997 the homeownership rate climbed to its highest level ever. Here are some of the results from the Census report, as well as other housing-sector statistics: --In 1995, at the request of President Clinton, the Administration convened the National Partners in Homeownership to carry out a National Homeownership Strategy -- The Clinton Administration has cut FHA home mortgage insurance premiums four times --In 1999, under pressure from the Clinton administration, Fannie Mae, the nation's largest home mortgage underwriter, relaxed credit requirements on the loans it would purchase from other banks and lenders, hoping that easing these restrictions would result in increased loan availability for minority and low-income buyers. Putting pressure on the GSE's (Government Sponsored Enterprise) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Clinton administration looked to increase their sub-prime portfolios, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development expressing its interest in the GSE's maintaining a 50% portion of their portfolios in loans to low and moderate-income borrowers.[9] Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 1999 — In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. ***** Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring. *** --BUSH REGULATORY OVERHAUL OF FANNIE/FREDDIE BLOCKED BY DEMOCRATS http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html?pagewanted=all New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae By STEPHEN LABATON Published: September 11, 2003 WASHINGTON, Sept. 10— The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago. The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt -- is broken. A report by outside investigators in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors. Democrats BLOCKED all attempts in Subcommittee --Supporters of the companies (Fannie/Freddie) said efforts to regulate the lenders tightly under those agencies might diminish their ability to finance loans for lower-income families. -- ''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.'' Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed. ''I don't see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,'' Mr. Watt said.You have either NOT read the above facts, or have chosen to ignore them.However, you are proving my point to perfection. more

Resolved Question: mean Verbal score was 490 with a standard deviation (SD)?

The National Center for Educational Statistics report that in the year ending 2009 some 400,000 students took the Graduate Record Examination. For this set of examinees, the observed mean Verbal score was 490 with a standard deviation (SD) of 90, and the observed mean Quantitative score was 560 with a standard deviation (SD) of 100. Assuming the distribution was normal, answer the following questions regarding both tests: (Show all your computation and use statistical evidence to interpret your answer) (1 point for each item from 1-4) 1.How many students whose scores are below the mean scores. 2. How many students whose scores are above the mean scores. 3. How many students whose scores fall between 1 SD below the mean (-1SD) and 1 SD above the mean (+1SD). 4. How many students whose scores are higher than 2 SD above the mean. more

Voting Question: How to get the z-score?

Resolved Question: Dems want to "reform" the Mortgage Finance Industry- Uh.. haven't we been down this road before?

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/banking-financial-institutions/114873-democrats-face-battle-in-mortgage-finance-overhaul http://archives.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/?u=102397-vp-announces-record-homeownership-level.htm http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=51448 Subprime Mortgage began in 1994 October 23, 1997 (From the Clinton Archives) In 1994, President Clinton, along with the National Partners in Homeownership, set a goal for the nation to achieve an all-time high homeownership rate by the year 2000. Today -- a full three years early -- the Census Bureau reported that in the third quarter of 1997 the homeownership rate climbed to its highest level ever. Here are some of the results from the Census report, as well as other housing-sector statistics: In 1995, at the request of President Clinton, the Administration convened the National Partners in Homeownership to carry out a National Homeownership Strategy Lowered Closing Costs By $1,200 for Qualified First-Time Home Buyers. The Clinton Administration has cut FHA home mortgage insurance premiums four times In 1999, under pressure from the Clinton administration, Fannie Mae, the nation's largest home mortgage underwriter, relaxed credit requirements on the loans it would purchase from other banks and lenders, hoping that easing these restrictions would result in increased loan availability for minority and low-income buyers. Putting pressure on the GSE's (Government Sponsored Enterprise) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Clinton administration looked to increase their sub-prime portfolios, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development expressing its interest in the GSE's maintaining a 50% portion of their portfolios in loans to low and moderate-income borrowers.[9] Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 1999 — In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. ***** Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring. *** (((((New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae))))) By STEPHEN LABATON Published: September 11, 2003 WASHINGTON, Sept. 10— The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago. Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac DEMOCRATS BLOCKED IT ! more

Resolved Question: FOX news! Who would've guessed?

You conservatives can come out of the closet now and admit that FOX is biased. Because today, the FOX news corporation gave a 1 million dollar donation to the Republican Governors Association. Fox also hosts such personalities as Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mike Huckabee. All of these personalities visciously defend the Bush administration. According to Pew Poll, 24% claimed FOX to be unbiased. According to MSNBC, 27% claimed FOX to be unbiased. According to CNN, 33% claimed FOX to be unbiased. According to Rasmussen Reports, 36% claimed FOX to be unbiased. By personal observation, I think the most hilarious thing about FOX news is that whenever there is a debate, the only way that the anchors can be successful is by shouting over the guest, repeating themselves, and outright ignoring the guest. Whenever the guest manages to get a few words in about their bias or politics, they usually say it is time for the guest to leave. If you are one of these statistics, explain why. FOX News,"Fair & Balanced".I do not watch MSNBC because it is as liberal as FOX is conservative. I know that ABC has a slight liberal bias, so I try to watch it and a few slightly conservative stations to give me multiple views to form my opinion on. more

Resolved Question: How painful can the Truth possibly be?

Resolved Question: Shall I fulfil the request by muchardav?

Muchardav, the quote:"If you can find an example of Palestinians paid in the same way as hasbara employees at the Israeli foreign ministry, I'ld love to see it". If you want it so... Then last week it was revealed that J Street, almost uniquely among American Jewish organizations, receives part of its funding from Arab and Muslim donors, along with at least two State Department officials with Saudi and Egyptian connections and a lawyer who once represented the Saudi embassy in Washington. The Arab and Muslim contributors include members of J Street’s own finance committee as well as Muslim student groups; B’Tselem , Adalah, Breaking the Silence received, between 2006 and 2009, $3,086,243, $915,703 and $409,139, respectively, in estimated European government funding, according to NGO-Monitor. In addition, the site reports the following: * Association for Civil Rights in Israel received $642,923 in estimated European government funding during that period; * Ir Amim, which works to prevent the Judaization of eastern, northern and southern Jerusalem, received $1,241,439; * Physicians for Human Rights-Israel - $869,245; and * Machsom Watch - left-wing women monitoring Israeli soldiers at checkpoints - $356,329. And at last, read this Letter of Complaint Filed Against the Americans for Peace Now By Commissioner Mark W. EversonWed Jun 10 2003 June 5, 2003 Commissioner Mark W. Everson Internal Revenue Service Washington, DC 20224 202-622-4115 To see the full text of the complaint and why it was filed against the Peace Now and its American branch Americans for Peace Now, open the link http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1723&q=1 Compared to the sums the Arab and pro- Arab propagandists get, the Israelis in the Foreign Ministry look very poor. Muchardav, thank you for the chance to give this statistics and glad to be of help. more

Resolved Question: Will our Government try to "Fix" the Housing Market again?

Voting Question: Statistics Probability Questions Please help!?

Can someone please help me with the below as I dont understand it! According to a 2008 report, 1 in 5 Australians suffers from at least 1 allergy If 15 Australians are selected at random, what is the probability that: a) Exactly 3 suffer from at least 1 allergy? b) Less than 5 suffer from at least 1 allergy? c) Between 4 and 9 (inclusive) suffer from at least 1 allergy? Can you please let me know how you got your answers and how to work it out. Thanks more

Resolved Question: Why do liberals ignore the cause of our economic fall, and vote for those that caused it.. to fix it?

The Subprime Mortgage Crisis Created our Economic Mess October 23, 1997 (From the Clinton Archives) In 1994, President Clinton, along with the National Partners in Homeownership, set a goal for the nation to achieve an all-time high homeownership rate by the year 2000. Today -- a full three years early -- the Census Bureau reported that in the third quarter of 1997 the homeownership rate climbed to its highest level ever. Here are some of the results from the Census report, as well as other housing-sector statistics: In 1995, at the request of President Clinton, the Administration convened the National Partners in Homeownership to carry out a National Homeownership Strategy Lowered Closing Costs By $1,200 for Qualified First-Time Home Buyers. The Clinton Administration has cut FHA home mortgage insurance premiums four times http://archives.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/?u=102397-vp-announces-record-homeownership-level.htm In 1999, under pressure from the Clinton administration, Fannie Mae, the nation's largest home mortgage underwriter, relaxed credit requirements on the loans it would purchase from other banks and lenders, hoping that easing these restrictions would result in increased loan availability for minority and low-income buyers. Putting pressure on the GSE's (Government Sponsored Enterprise) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Clinton administration looked to increase their sub-prime portfolios, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development expressing its interest in the GSE's maintaining a 50% portion of their portfolios in loans to low and moderate-income borrowers.[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_lending Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending WASHINGTON, Sept. 29— In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. ***** Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring. *** http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html more

Voting Question: questions about statistics independent variables where none of it is significant?

i need help on my statistics assignment on conclusion and recommendation part... my problem is all the independent variables has no significant differences... i dot know how to write a conclusions and recommendations part of the assignment...i did consult my lecturer yesterday but i cant talk much with him as hes was on his way to a meeting ... all he said is that based on my result it is possible to such result for the independent variables ... and he also told me it is because of he model is weak based on the R square and adjusted R square value.... all i learn in class is there is at least one independent variables that is significant but now i got this results where all the independent variables area all not significant and i don't know how to interpret it... can someone give me some ideas for the conclusion and recommendations part of my assignment? the assignment is about being a consulting firm for an investment holding company. They are thinking of diversifying into growth stocks. Thus, they have appointed your group to investigate the key factors which are significant in driving the performance of companies. In the report, your group is expected to present a summary of your analysis including key statistical results, conclusions and recommendations to those investors who want to make an investment in a company. so the results that i got is ; i)Coefficient of Determination (R2) = 0.3715, 37.15% of total variation in the ROA of the companies can be explained by the variation of the six independent variables. There is about 62.85% of unexplained variation. The model is considered to be a weak model. ii)Adjusted coefficient of Determination (Adj. R2) = -0.1672, 16.72% of total variation in the ROA of the companies can be explained by the variation of the six independent variables after taking into account the sample size and number of independent variables. There is about 83.28% of unexplained variation. The model is considered to be a weak model. ROA of the companies = Return on Assets = 0.111 (Intercept ) -3.963(Net Sales) + 1.405 (Operating Expenses) +1.357 (Cash from Operating Activities) +2.008 (Total Assets) -2.365 (Total of Common Shareholders’ Equity) -1.227 ( Dividends Paid) Hypothesis Testing H0= There is no significant relationship between X1 and ROA Y1 H1 = There is significant relationship between X1 and ROA Y1 X1 = Variable 1-7 Test Statistic Net Sales = 0.671> = 0.05 not significant: do not reject H0 Operating Expenses = 0.959> = 0.05 not significant: do not reject H0 Cash from Operating Activities= 0.648> = 0.05 not significant: do not reject H0 Total Assets = 0.526> = 0.05 not significant: do not reject H0 Total of Common Shareholders’ Equity= 0.475 > = 0.05 not significant: do not reject H0 Dividends Paid= 0.949> = 0.05 not significant: do not reject H0 None of the six independent variables have significant relationship with ROAthe conclusions should be about statistics theory in general not about accounting or anything else....conclusions and recommendationsoh forgot to mentions this is on multiple regression chapter more

Resolved Question: Feminists, in your drive to remove the father from the family home, did you stop to consider?

the law of unintended consequences? 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census) 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control) 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978.) 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools.) 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes (Source: Rainbows for all Gods Children.) 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988) 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992) (Because only a portion of each age group grew up in a fatherless home,) these statistics translate to mean that children from fatherless homes are: 5 times more likely to commit suicide 32 times more likely to run away 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders 14 times more likely to commit rape 9 times more likely to drop out of high school 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances 9 times more likely to end up in a state-operated institution 20 times more likely to end up in prison.Iggy said: "You really shouldn't have posted this question because basically what you are saying is that all these kids are killing themselves because their father left. Therefore he damaged the family unit and their upbringing. " My response: Why do you assume it is men's fault that they are being separated from their children? 70% of no fault divorces are filed by women, not men. Women get custody most of the time in our sexist family courts 75% of divorced men say their ex-wives interfered with visitation with their kids And "40% of custodial mothers admitted to interfering with visitation to punish fathers, according to a recent study by American Journal of Orthopsychiatry." http://www.fathermag.com/902/feminism/Kelly said: "I'm not a feminist, but it strikes me as silly to assert that having no father is the cause of such things. I'd be rather inclined to say that having no GOOD father figure is what plays a greater role in such things." My response: Why are these statistics "silly" again? Because you don't like them I assume? more

Resolved Question: Is Arizona's Governor asking the Gov't to spend unnecessary money and troops by pushing lies?

Jan Brewers claims on beheading and all the so-called violence spilling over have been found to be false and don't add up compared to FBI statistics and what other law enforcement along the border towns report. So is Arizona's Gov. Jan Brewer asking the Gov't to spend money and send troops that aren't really necessary? The U.S. Mexico Border Is Safer Than You Think http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20100812/wl_oneworld/world3694381281622010 With the Crime rate flat in Arizona, Gov. Brewer turns to the mythical "beheading" narrative to attack Latinos http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/crime-rate-flat-arizona-gov-brewer-turn Crime stats test rationale behind Arizona immigration law http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/29/arizona.immigration.crime/index.html?hpt=T2 more

Resolved Question: Is Mexico annexing the U.S. through their so-called “anchor babies?

The widely known but always down-played Reconquista Movement is alive and well and coming to a town near you. Mexico is taking much of this country through very aggressive illegal immigration, as well as an equally aggressive birth rate. The Pew Hispanic Center just announced the results of a recent study which found that of the 4.3 million babies born in the U.S., during 2008, about 340,000 were born to illegal aliens. The study found that children born to illegal aliens account for 7 percent of the total population of people under the age of 18, or 5.1 million children. 79 percent of those children were born in the United States, automatically making them U.S. citizens. The goal of the Reconquista Movement was once designed to takeover the southwestern border states of California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. However, through the exploitation of the 14th Amendment, illegal aliens are now building colonies in every state of the union. The following statistics provided by the U.S. Census Bureau are staggering and frightening: -In 2005, Latinos accounted for half of the U.S. population growth. -The total U.S. population more than doubled from 131.7 million in 1940 to 290.8 million in 2003, the Latino population increased nearly 30 times in that same period. In 1940, the Latino population within the U.S. was 1.4 million, by 2003 it had swelled to 40 million. -Between 2000-2003, the Latino population within the U.S. grew at a rate of 13 percent, while the U.S. non-Latino population grew at a rate of only 0.8 percent during the same period. -Recently, the ethnocentric Latino group known as La Raza proudly reported on their website that 85 percent of the Latino population under 18 were born inside the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 80 percent of our Latino population is age 44 or younger, which means that the vast majority of Latinos in the U.S. are still of child-bearing age. With the unchecked illegal immigration crisis, this country will become another Latin American nation in our lifetime. What will this mean to you?...The disappearance of the English language, the destruction of our traditional American culture, the over-population of our cities, epidemics of once-thought eradicated diseases, crushing poverty, and soaring crime. Considering the fact that illegal aliens already account for 29 percent of this nation's prison population, we can expect that prison building will become the new growth industry. Public schools will only teach English as a second language, and municipal services will be stretched beyond their limits. But the real problem will be that our politics will be controlled by those whose loyalties actually lie with another nation. Once our political system becomes dominated by illegal aliens and their offspring, our resources will no longer be our own, but will be used only to benefit Mexico. If an effort is not made to protect our border with Mexico and we do not soon adopt a sensible immigration policy--the United States as we know it will cease to exist in the near future. http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-35821-Immigration-Reform-Examiner~y2010m8d12-Is-Mexico-annexing-the-US-through-their-socalled-anchor-babies more

Voting Question: statistics report that people usually go with the religion of there parents or environment?

with out giving other religions a fair chance. well most religious people anyway. if your a theist and your born in Pakistan you'd probably be a muslim or if you were born ion india, a hindu. in america, a christian. in Israel, a jew. statistics support this. most the time religion is not a choice. why cant people accept that.china = CTR or Buddhist Japan = Shinto or Buddhist India = Hindu mid east = muslim Europe, USA, S. america = christian more

Resolved Question: I need a GPA estimation (I'm from Quebec and would like to go to university in the USA)?

Those are my last two report cards from Cegep (high school). The numbers will indicate, in order: my grade (%) - the class' average (%) - my z score for that class - credit hours. Phys Ed I: 95-75-1.87-2 Philosophy I: 95-61-2.27-4 Statistics: 84-60-1.22-4 Economy: 90-60-2.73-3 Politics: 81-60-1.27-3 Sociology: 89-65-1.7-3 French I: 93-71-1.9-4 Phys Ed II: 91-66-2.27-2 Calculus I: 89-57-1.48-5 Geography: 91-66-2.36-3 History: 93-61-1.34-3 Philosophy II: 90-71-1.86-3 Psychology: 96-64-1.71-3 French II: 87-60-1.34-4 The point that bugs me is the % to letters (A,B,C) conversion. I just expect an estimation (hopefully from american teachers). more

Voting Question: can anyone help w/ fixing my grammar? im a international student...?

Please help... im a international student. Hewlett-Packard Company is known as world’s largest maker of personal computers and also one of the world's largest information technology companies operates in nearly every country. William R. Hewlett and David Packard found this company in 1939. HP’s Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. They are targeting in variety of fields; households, small to medium sized businesses and as well as online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors. As a world’s largest information technology company, there are still few problems that company is facing. Few of the problems that HP is facing are drop in sales, decline in imaging and printing group avenue, and decline in software revenue. One of the major problem that HP is facing is that drop in sales. HP saw its sales dropped 19 percent to $8.19 billion: PCs, Printers, Servers, and Software. There are some possible reasons why the sale has declined due to possible economic crisis, quality of products, trend of new technologies, and other competitors in the market. By looking at an evidence of constant drops of HP’s sales, there are some possibilities that HP’s sales wouldn’t improve in anytime soon. At this point, serious action must be taken to solve this problem. There are many ways to solve the issues starting from switching the locations/territories, and plan a better advertisement/marketing strategy. But my recommendation to this solution is to improve products and sales by managing the relationship between development and sales team, and catch up with the new trend of the technologies and hit the market with the new product that has same benefit, much more convenient, and more affective compared to PC products. To support my thought of recommendation, besides looking at the formal graph of statistics, we can easily find the mobile phone that has same function as computer. According to Forrester Researcher Report, they have researched and has clearly announced with their back up evidence that PC sales will continue to decline, much as they have for the past several years. Just by planning or making a first step into this industry will have a huge impact of HP’s future. more

Resolved Question: Feminists, why does ze patriarchy conspire to pay women at the top in business more than their male equals?

or is it more likely your organisation is conspiring to mislead you about the nature of reality for their own ends. A Carnegie Mellon University study has concluded that women executives out-earn their male counterparts. The study, which examined 16,000 executives over 14 years, found that women at the top of the business world bring in a bit more than men and are promoted at the same rate, countering the popular notion that women earn less than men for the same work. "That common perception is not borne out by this study," said Robert A. Miller, professor of economics and strategy and one of the authors. "If you're looking for evidence of gender discrimination in executive promotion and compensation, it's not happening there." The study, "Are There Glass Ceilings for Female Executives?," was released last month by Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business but hasn't been published yet. The largest empirical analysis of the top echelons of publicly traded companies determined that women earned about $100,000 more per year than men of the same age, educational background and experience. Unlike some studies that have relied on aggregate statistics to indicate a gender pay gap, this one took multiple variables into account. "Once you control for the position that they're in, that is, their rank, and you control for experience and control for their education, background and turnover, once you do that you find that they earn a little more," said Dr. Miller. The paper does not address why women make more and not the same as men, although one possibility is that women who rise to the top of corporations have some innate qualities that haven't been -- and maybe can't be -- quantified. Female executives on the whole still earn less than male executives, but that's because more women quit before they reach the top, the study says. "At any given level of the career hierarchy, women are paid slightly more than men with the same background, have slightly less income uncertainty and are promoted as quickly," it concludes. "We concluded that the gender pay gap and differences in job rank in this most lucrative occupation is explained by females leaving the market at higher rates than males." Why they quit is harder to explain. Younger women opt out of the work force to have babies, but the average age for executives in the study was 53, beyond the child-bearing years. Yet female executives still retire earlier than men and are more likely to switch careers. The CMU paper offers some possible reasons, including "more unpleasantries, indignities and tougher, unrewarding assignments" at work. The authors also suggest that women over time acquire "more nonmarket human capital" than men -- meaning connections outside the workplace -- that make retirement more attractive. "They're definitely leaving and we don't know why," said Dr. Miller. "That's the variable." He and the other researchers, George-Levi Gayle and Limor Golan, both assistant professors of economics, hope to address that issue in the future by controlling for the rate of retirement. "That is the piece that we want to write next," he said. The study didn't initially seek to analyze gender inequity but rather to look at the role of "human capital" -- skills and knowledge -- in determining promotions at corporations. "But this sort of jumped out and hit us in the face," said Dr. Miller. Some studies had indicated female executives were paid the same as men, but those didn't address the rate of promotion as this one does, he said. More recent studies reached similar conclusions. A report released last month by The Corporate Library, a research firm in Maine, said women corporate directors earn 15 percent more than male counterparts, although they are still outnumbered 8-1 by men on boards. The CMU study compiled data representing 60 different job titles at more than 1,800 companies between 1992 and 2006. In addition to examining promotion rates, the researchers also analyzed total compensation, including benefits, bonuses, retirement packages and stock options in addition to salary. Overall, the study concluded that job turnover and tenure are better indicators of compensation than gender. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08348/934974-28.stm#ixzz0wJjWMXFe http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08348/934974-28.stmSee the book burning mentality?Anara, the wage gap that is there, is there because men spend more time in the work place, women chose fexibility over money. So there is no conspiracy, you will make yourself mentally ill thinking that there is.Once a question is "in voting" you cant access the drop down box that allows you to delete it. If one of my qs was removed "in voting" it was because it was reported for violations of community guidelines. more

Resolved Question: statistics question (help please)?

Hi, I need urgently the solution of this question. If you help, I really appreciate it. Thanks The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was designed to select the top two teams in college football for a final championship game. The teams are selected by a complicated formula. In 2001, the University of Miami Hurricanes and the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers played for the championship. However, many football fans thought that Nebraska should not have played in the game because it was rated only fourth in both major opinion polls. Third-ranked University of Colorado fans were particularly upset because Colorado soundly beat the Cornhuskers late in the season. A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll reports that a majority of fans would prefer a national championship play-off as an alternative to the BCS. The news media polled a random sample of 1019 adults 18 years of age or older. A summary of the results states that 54% prefer the play-off, and the margin of error is 3% for 95% confidence. Question 1) How many adults preferred a play off? Round to the nearest whole number. Questions 2) What is the lower bound of the 95% confidence interval? Round to three decimal places. more

Resolved Question: How the panic over rape was orchestrated - Misleading stats on conviction rates?

"For years the Home Office and the former Lord Chancellor’s Department have misled the media about rape statistics – and allowed the media to misinform the public.". "Rape is the only crime judged by the attrition rate. All others – murder, assault, robbery, and so on – are assessed by their conviction rates. Why? The question is best addressed to Betty Moxon who, in 2000, was head of the Sex Offenders Review Team (SORT) for whom I wrote the minority report." Article tables and graphs here. http://www.straightstatistics.org/article/how-panic-over-rape-was-orchestrated What do you think G/S?In the most recent edition of More or Less, broadcast last Friday and still available as a podcast, Ruth Alexander questioned why rape has been made an exception. Referring to a new report soon to be published by London Metropolitan University she said it claimed that Britain had the worst record in Europe for rape convictions. Over recent years, she said, the report showed that the conviction rate had fallen from 10 per cent to 6.5 per cent. But this is based on the misleading attrition rate. When real conviction rates are calculated on a common basis with other crimes, her report endorses our findings of 2000 (and subsequent years), namely that it is more commonly in the 48-52 per cent bracket. Her latest figure, for 2007, was 47 per cent.Feminist posting as a male. Your answer is nothing other than a false accusation, baseless claims, a plea to emotion and shaming tactics.Aiden , the real hidden victims of sex crimes are victims of female pedophiles and the men that are falsley accused. These politically correct, pathological liers and gender narcissists want some criminals and some crimes to be more equal than others depending on the perp./victim gender configuration. more

Resolved Question: America NEEDS regime change, how long can we last without it?

Tom Blumer writes at PajamasMedia today "The Two-Tiered Economy": Anything resembling normalcy ended when the POR [Pelosi-Obama-Reid] economy kicked in. Since then, downward disappointments have happened so often that the word “unexpectedly” associated with bad news has become a running joke in the center-right blogosphere. This is occurring because so many small businesses are either out of business, seriously contracting, or treading water. For the most part, they’re not hiring. Understandably, it takes the statisticians a while to figure this out. A prime example of disappointment occurred when the Bureau of Labor Statistics adjusted its originally reported job losses for calendar 2009 in its January 2010 report. All of a sudden, the number of people employed fell by over 600,000. The worst example of a subsequent statistical meltdown occurred with GDP during the third quarter of 2008. That quarter also “just happened” to be the first quarter of the POR economy and of the recession as normal people define it. At the end of its initial round of reports, the government thought the economy had contracted by an annualized 0.5%. Subsequent comprehensive revisions took that number first to -2.1%, then to -2.7%. The government’s July 30 GDP report whacked it down to an annualized -4.0% — eight times worse than originally thought. The cratering occurred because businesses large and small, entrepreneurs, and investors saw the regime uncertainty that was coming (some call it “utter lawlessness“) and battened down the hatches. Since then, though some of their behavior smacks of trying to be the last guy who gets eaten by the alligator, large firms, thanks to the special advantages cited above, have sort of figured out how to cope. Small businesses without crony connections in the ruling class aren’t as fortunate. As a result, neither are the rest of us, especially those who don’t already have jobs. This situation doesn’t seem likely to improve significantly until the current atmosphere of regime uncertainty ends. I’m afraid that won’t occur until there is regime change.The Democrats under Pelosi and Reid took over both houses of Congress in the November elections of 2006. Thus the the POR economy began in In January 2007.Okay, I have a better explanation. The first quarter of 2007 was the first quarter of the "P-R" economy. Obama was not yet a big player. But by the early fall of 2008 it was clear that McCain was weakening and that Obama was the likely winner of the November election, and thus the 3rd quarter of 2008 really marked in business and the economy the arrival of the three horsemen of America's Apocalypse: the destructive and calamitous forces of Pelosi and Reid were joined by the lead rider of Doom -- Obama. more

Resolved Question: Why is domestic violence against men ignored?

Don't say it doesn't happen and is only perpetrated by violent, aggressive men because it is not true. Every year, 1,510,455 women and 834,732 men are victims of physical violence by an intimate. This is according to a Nov. 1998 Department of Justice report on the National Violence Against Women Survey. Clearly there is more women being victims of domestic violence and that is a huge issue, but more than half of the above statistics is MEN as victims, this coming from the US department of justice. So don't say 99% of batterers are men or any bullshit without a source. I understand that men can and usually do leave more physical damage and the efforts to help women are great and should be continued and aided even further but why do we have to do so at the expense of men? Why can't we acknowledge both and educate the public on both so we have EQUALITY. To many victims go unnoticed because of your lack of compassion to the other sex or even your sex because your head is so far up your feminist ***. Isn't equality what people use to fight for?Is this section of the site that narrow minded? I never said I was in a violent relationship I'm trying to bring light to an issue that's constantly swept under the rug.Is this section of the site that narrow minded? I never said I was in a violent relationship I'm trying to bring light to an issue that's constantly swept under the rug. more

Resolved Question: Has Fox news' plummeting ratings caused them to try reporting the truth about illegal immigrants?

Crime statistics gathered by the FBI show a steady decrease in violent crime over the last three years – in all major metro areas in Arizona. In Phoenix, for example, violent crime went down over 16 percent in the last year. Validating Phoenix as the kidnapping capital of the country is virtually impossible. Many cities across the country do not gather the number of kidnappings that occur within their jurisdiction at all. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/07/threat-border-violence-arizona-appears-overstated-analysts-say/?test=latestnews more

Resolved Question: Why is CNN trying to misrepresent the # of people who lost their job last month by 71,000 instead of 131,000?

Do they think by doing that it will actually help minimize the damage to Obama as exposing his failed economic policies? CNN "Newsroom" anchor Kyra Phillips reported the "breaking news" about July's unemployment data just after 9 a.m. Aug. 6. Misreported would be more accurate. "We begin with the breaking news this morning on a broken economy. We have new evidence of just how feeble the recovery is and how many Americans have nothing to show for it," Phillips said. "The nation's unemployment rate has remained flat at a disheartening 9.5 percent. Just last month 60,000 jobs vanished, the news is bad, but not quite as bad as we expected." Actually, the news was worse than Phillips reported. The U.S. lost more than twice that many jobs in July: 131,000 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS also revised June data after finding an additional 96,000 lost jobs (June's total losses 221,000). http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2010/20100806102029.aspx more

Resolved Question: Why are Europeans so irresponsible in letting people drink younger?

Binge Drinking is wrong and I read statistics that Europe has a drinking problem and 15-17 year olds binge drink for fun and parents dont realise the consequences and how it would affect them.Guam has recently raised thier drinking age to 21 because of reports of United States under 21 soldiers going into their drinking age drinking and causing problems as usual.Thje drinking age WORLDWIDE should be 21!right the driving age should be 18 every state more

Resolved Question: Why have Bigfoot sightings skyrocketed since 2008?

Statistics don't lie--dramatic increase in the number of reports? WHy?Yay--1 out of 5 made the connection so far. more