Index Archive

Average SAT score (out of 2400) of students from households with an income below $20,000

: 1322

Number of San Quentin prisoners who could reside in one such apartment, based on their average cell size

: 10

Who find this about applicants unemployed for more than two years

: 44

Percentage increase since 2008 in the portion of Americans who call themselves “lower-class”

: 28

Minimum funds smuggled out of China in the past two decades by officials fleeing the country

: $120,000,000

From households with an income above $200,000

: 1722

Percentage change in the theft of Apple products in New York City since January

: +40

In the portion earning more than $100,000 annually who do

: 20

Chance that a crime committed in New York City in 2012 was one of these thefts

: 1 in 7

Projected percentage increase in the 2012 U.S. GDP attributable to sales of the iPhone 5

: 0.33

Average out-of-state tuition surcharge a resident child of illegal immigrants must pay to attend a Florida public university

: $14,521

Estimated percentage of North American pit-viper litters that are “virgin births”

: 5

Percentage of U.S. children who save their allowance money, according to a survey of American parents

: 1

Ratio of U.S. tax breaks to tax revenue in 2011

: 1:1

Percentage of freshmen at four-year colleges who declare “Roman Catholic” as their religious affiliation

: 26

Percentage change in the likelihood a child will eat an apple from the school cafeteria if the apple has an Elmo sticker on it

: +68

Percentage of British teens who say they are embarrassed to be seen reading

: 17

Who declare “None”

: 25

Number of Washington, D.C., cops arrested in the past four years

: 93

Projected year by which more than half of Americans will be obese

: 2030

Percentage of college students in Iran who are female

: 56

Number of trees that will be cleared so the space shuttle Endeavor can be towed to the California Science Museum

: 400

Number of subjects that Iranian universities have barred undergraduate women from studying

: 77

Average number of times each week U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong patient or body part

: 40

Average salary subjects in a September study offered a fictional woman applying for a U.S. university laboratory position

: $26,508

Number of rental bicycles vandalized in wealthy areas of Paris in September in the name of class warfare

: 50

Rank of preventable medical errors among the leading causes of death in the United States

: 3

Average salary they offered a fictional man with identical credentials

: $30,328

Portion of the National Institutes of Health’s research-chimp population going into retirement in the next year

: 1/5

Percentage change in the past five years in the share of new U.S. cars sold to people between ages 18 and 34

: ???42

Percentage of murders of Pakistani women in 2011 committed by the victim’s husband or brother

: 38

Percentage increase since 2000 in the compensation of full professors at the fifty wealthiest private U.S. universities

: 14

Minimum chance that a Bangladeshi woman’s first experience of sex is rape

: 1 in 4

Portion of New York City taxis driven by women

: 1/100

Percentage of recruiters or hiring managers who find applicants with nonfelony criminal records “very difficult” to place

: 31

Minimum number of miniature liquor bottles stolen by employees at John F. Kennedy International Airport in 2012

: 117,000

Amount Massachusetts has been ordered to pay for the sex-reassignment surgery of an inmate serving life in prison

: $23,000

Minimum square footage of San Francisco apartments allowed under new regulations

: 220

Estimated minimum number of adult male elves who could get drunk off this amount of alcohol

: 60,245

Harper’s Index

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