Stats Attack 2

Stuff I liked from numeric life recently:

• Women's brains respond 20% faster to erotic images than to other images.
• Women buy 68% of all books. Wow, girl power.
• 70% of the time, women correctly predict whether a man likes children just by looking at his face.
• 59% of brides-to-be expect to have sex on their wedding night; 28% plan to just sleep; 16% plan to get pregnant.
• Romantic love lasts an average of 12-18 months.
• 48% of an individual's propensity to become self-employed is genetic.
• In 2005, credit card companies spent $6 billion on advertising. The average American receives 6 unsolicited credit card offers per month.
• 9.3% of Americans have diabetes which makes them 42% more likely to have diabetes than Canadians.
• 56% of women would rather be thinner than smarter.
• 3 is the optimal group size for problem-solving.
• Kids in the U.S. spend 2 hours per day watching TV.
• 80% of women report foot pain, and 74% of those women wear high heals.
• The average conversation contains 0.3 inaccurate statements per minute. Men fib to make themselves look better, women fib to make others feel better.
• Since September 2005 the U.S. national debt has increased an average of $2.44 billion per day.