4/93Ratio of the number of women who deal with depression by eating to the number of men who do: 3:1

Dianne Tice, Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland)

    Ratio of the number of men who deal with depression by drinking or taking drugs to the number of women who do: 5:1

Dianne Tice, Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland)

6/91Percentage of Americans who say they watch “too little” television: 23

Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)

10/91Percentage of American men who say they have fantasized about having sex with a fictional TV character: 30

The Day America Told the Truth by James Patterson and Peter Kim (Prentice Hall, N.Y.C.)

12/94Percentage of American children who say they use flattery to get their parents to buy them things: 16

The Roper Organization (Storrs, Conn.)

    Percentage who say they “act depressed”: 10

The Roper Organization (Storrs, Conn.)

11/00Year in which anxiety eclipsed depression among the most common mental-health problems in the United States: 1984

National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, Md.)