Sassy and the Random Statistic of the Day

February 13, 2008

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Twenty-nine percent of U.S. workers consider work-life balance and flexibility to be the most important factor in considering job offers. Compensation was the second biggest factor with 23 percent.

February 12, 2008

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Forty percent of workers say they have dated a co-worker at sometime during their careers, with 20 percent admitting to doing it more than twice. Close to 29 percent of workers said they went on to marry the person they dated at work.

February 11, 2008

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Seventy percent of medical laboratories in Pakistan are providing sub-standard medical diagnostic testing services.

February 10, 2008

2008-02-12T21:58:00.001-05:00

China's information industry authority plans to expand broadband service to more than 95 percent of the nation's villages in 2008. China had 210 million Internet users at the end of 2007, and its online population is on course to become the world's largest at the beginning of this year.

February 9, 2008

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Eighty-five percent of all games sold in 2006 were rated "E" for Everyone, "T" for Teen, or "E10 plus" for Everyone 10 and older.

February 8, 2008

2008-02-12T21:56:00.001-05:00

At Brasilia International Airport, the world's worst airport for on-time departures, slightly less than 27 percent of all flights took off within 15 minutes of their scheduled departure time in 2007.

February 7, 2008

2008-02-06T22:38:00.002-05:00

An estimated 25 to 40 percent of dogs in the U.S. (about 17 million) are overweight or obese.

February 6, 2008

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At Brasilia International Airport, the world's worst airport for on-time departures, slightly less than 27 percent of all flights took off within 15 minutes of their scheduled departure time in 2007.

February 5, 2008

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According to the SPCA, 72 percent of owned dogs are spayed or neutered.

February 4, 2008

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Some microbiology students at Clemson University in South Carolina examined the effects of double dipping food using volunteers, wheat crackers and several sample dips. They found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from an eater's mouth to the remaining dip sample.

February 3, 2008

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(Whoops, sorry for this one being so late... forgot to broadcast it last night.)

According to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), 32,453 surgical procedures were carried out on men and women in Britain last year, a 12.2 percent increase on 2006.

February 2, 2008

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In 2007, 24 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.

February 1, 2008

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The book version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reached number one on the book charts in only its second week, and sold over 250,000 copies within three months of its release. To date it has sold over 14 million copies.

January 31, 2008

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Apple's line of MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks combined for nearly 10 percent of all notebook sales at U.S.-based retail stores during the month of March 2007.

January 30, 2008

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In 2006, Tesco.com was the most popular online grocery site in the UK, capturing 66 percent of all online grocery orders, amounting to an average of 30,000 orders per day for total sales of approximately 2.5 million GBP every day. Tesco.com’s closest online competitor was ASDA online, which captured 16 percent of all orders, followed by Sainsbury's online with 14 percent. P.S. Hi Blinky Plinky, have a nice day!

January 29, 2008

2008-01-31T19:48:00.000-05:00

Ninety-nine point nine eight percent of all discharged Iraq and Afghanistan vets have not committed or been charged with homicide.

(Disclaimer: Not an exact statistic, but taken from a blogger's rant about the NYT and found thoroughly amusing by yours truly.)

January 28, 2008

2008-01-31T19:47:00.000-05:00

Babies are glued to television sets these days, with 40 percent of 3-month-olds and 90 percent of 2-year-olds regularly watching TV, according to a University of Washington study.

January 27, 2008

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When asked "Which car is a sign that a man is overcompensating for his fragile ego or physical shortcomings?" fully 30 percent of respondents to a survey titled "Cars & Summer Romance" instantly said the Hummer, 20 percent said the Cadillac Escalade, 18 percent said a Lamborghini, 15 percent said a Ferrari and 10 percent said monster trucks.

January 26, 2008

2008-01-27T00:12:00.001-05:00

Almost one third of companies have employed staff to read or otherwise analyze outbound e-mail, and more than fifteen percent have hired people whose primary function is to spy on outgoing corporate e-mail.

January 25, 2008

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Fifty-seven percent of respondents view spam e-mail as the worst form of junk advertising, close to double the 31 percent that cited postal junk mail. Only 12 percent chose telemarketing.

January 24, 2008

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According to the Entertainment Software Association, average game player is 33 years old and has been playing games for 12 years.

January 23, 2008

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According to data released by the Drug Enforcement Agency's Domestic Cannabis Eradication slash Suppression Program and the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, more than 98 percent of all of the marijuana plants seized by law enforcement in the United States is feral hemp, not cultivated cannabis.

January 22, 2008

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Some 70 percent of child labour worldwide is found in agriculture, with many children engaged in forced and hazardous activities.

January 21, 2008

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Some 35% of all teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online boys, and 54% of wired girls post photos online compared with 40% of online boys.

January 20, 2008

2008-01-20T19:47:00.001-05:00

Only 13 percent of congressional Republicans say they believe that human activity is causing global warming, compared to 95 percent of congressional Democrats.

January 19, 2008

2008-01-18T21:36:00.000-05:00

According to the Entertainment Software Association, 86 percent of game players under the age of 18 report that they get their parents’ permission when renting or buying games, and 91 percent say their parents are present when they buy games.

January 18, 2008

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Hitwise, an online competitive intelligence service, says Google accounted for 64 percent of all Internet searches in the United States for the month of March 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22, 9 and 3 percent respectively.

January 17, 2008

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A study by SupportSoft found that sixty-five percent of Americans spend more time with their computer than their spouse.

January 16, 2008

2008-01-16T23:02:00.000-05:00

According to Kelloggs dot com, twenty-six percent of people snack on cereal at times of the day other than breakfast.

Welcome!

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