Index Archive

Percentage by which Americans are more likely to view the opposing political party as stupid rather than evil

: 23

By which more Democrats aged 25 to 54 watch Tucker Carlson Tonight than The Rachel Maddow Show

: 15

Percentage by which more Russians than average read BBC News in the week Ukraine was invaded

: 245

Date on which Russia restricted access to BBC News

: 3/4/2022

Percentage of U.S. adults who think Russia is a Communist or Socialist country

: 55

Portion of people who are not confident using numbers in their everyday lives

: 2/5

Minimum number of U.S. states that require or plan to require high school courses in financial literacy

: 10

Percentage of U.S. educators who plan to retire earlier than they had expected

: 55

Estimated percentage of Americans who believed the key tenets of QAnon last year

: 16

Percentage of Americans in 1970 who thought the moon landing was worth the use of national resources

: 39

Who did not

: 56

Percentage of Americans who support sending astronauts to Mars

: 53

Who do not

: 19

Number of U.S. cities beneath which Elon Musk’s Boring Company has proposed constructing subterranean tunnels

: 6

Portion of monkeys implanted with Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chips between 2017 and 2020 that have died

: 7/10

Portion of likely U.S. voters who think microchip implants would improve human lives

: 1/10

Who think they would lead to unprecedented totalitarian control

: 3/4

Portion of Americans who say it is sometimes permissible to use violence against the government

: 1/4

Who say it is justified “right now”

: 1/10

Percentage of U.S. workers who received raises in the past year that kept pace with inflation

: 17

Average value this year, to the tooth fairy, of a lost tooth in the United States

: $5.36

Percentage by which this value has increased since the start of the pandemic

: 33

Estimated miles of toilet paper used in the United States each year

: 2,650,000,000

Estimated number of trees this represents

: 31,000,000

Portion of Americans who say they are unable to use the bathroom without their cell phone

: 1/4

Who have texted a nude photo of themselves while in the bathroom

: 1/10

Percentage by which AI-generated faces are regarded as more trustworthy than real ones

: 8

Percentage of Hinge users who say they are more likely to go on a second date with someone who is in therapy

: 86

Percentage by which men with a dog in their dating-app profiles are more likely to want a long-term relationship

: 90

Portion of single Americans who are interested in casual dating

: 1/10

Increase, in years, of the average age of marriage for U.S. adults since 1970

: 7

Percentage change between 2010 and 2020 in the number of marriages in China

: –38

In the number of divorces

: +38

Portion of U.S. men who are stalked at some point in their lives

: 1/6

Of U.S. women

: 1/3

Estimated amount lost by Americans to romance scammers last year

: $1,000,000,000

Factor by which this has increased since 2015

: 5

Average factor by which elderly victims lose more to romance scams than young adult victims

: 12

Portion of Americans aged 55 to 64 who have no children

: 1/5

Percentage of non-parents aged 18 to 49 who say they’re unlikely to ever have children

: 44

Harper’s Index

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