Tag Archives: surveys

Gotham: America’s Dirtiest City

So says Travel + Leisure: After ranking a tidier No. 5 last year, NYC has regained its No. 1 spot for grit and grime. Some have argued that littering fines here—up to 10 days in jail—should be tougher, but pollution isn’t always just what you see or smell: New York also won the survey for being the loudest and rudest …

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The Smuttiest Cities In America

According to TIME: The intrepid researchers at Men’s Health took to the Internet for their research, adding up the number of DVDs purchased, rented, or streamed (courtesy AdultDVDEmpire.com); adult entertainment stores per city (StorErotica.net); rate of porn searches (Google Insights); and percentage of Cinemax-subscribing households (SimplyMap) to get an overall picture of municipal smuttiness. They then collated the information and …

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Millennials Are Increasingly “Unchurched”

Pollsters call the youngest generation “millennials.” Friendly Atheist points us to a new survey: “Not only are Catholicism and Christianity losing ground, the study says that ‘one-quarter (25%) of Millennials identify as religiously unaffiliated.’ Not only that, since only 11% of Millennials were raised without faith, more than half of unaffiliated Millennials left their childhood faith.”

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What’s Important To Voters

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A Survey For Your Mother

Ask your mom if she wants to fill out a survey that will be part of an exhibit at the Museum Of Motherhood.

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EU Launches LGBT Survey

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights has commissioned Gallup Europe for a survey of the LGBT residents of the EU. Besides occasional news reports about discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people, there is very little comparable data collected across the EU about the everyday experiences of LGBT people with respect to discrimination. Based on the survey …

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SURVEY: 33 Is The Happiest Age

A British survey of people over 40 revealed that more people named 33 as their happiest age than any other time in their lives. 70% of people over 40 picked that age as their happiest. Just 6% said they were content during their college years, the site reported. And only 16% pined for their childhood years. One in three surveyed …

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LGBT Cancer Survey

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SURVEY: Half Of Gay Men Would Give Up One Year Of Life For The Perfect Body

According to a British survey, almost half of gay men say they would sacrifice one year of their life in return for having the perfect body. The research also said 10% of gay men would agree to die more than 11 years earlier if they could have their ideal body now. Nine in ten gay men admit they enforce “unrealistic” …

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What’s Important To Catholics

I’m betting that the Archbishop of New York isn’t thrilled with these results.

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Religion Poll On Marriage Support

Baylor University’s annual survey on religion reports the above levels of support for marriage equality. Unsurprisingly, the “unchurched” are far and away our best allies.

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Comfort Levels Around Pozzers

Andrew Sullivan points out an updated survey just published by Kaiser. Even in 2011, more than half of the respondents say they aren’t comfortable having their food handled by HIV+ people. Embiggen for details.

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Identity Gap

The Wall Street Journal looks at recent estimates of the size of the LGBT community in the United States and why some consider such figures to be inherently unreliable.

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Out Magazine Releases Sex Survey

Out Magazine has issued its first-ever sex survey of its readers. The sample size is small, 1000 people, and the results are only indicative of folks who read Out, not the LGBT population as a whole. Still, there’s some interesting factoids such as the above.

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SURVEY: The Family Research Council Wants To Know What You Think Of Them

Well, what are you waiting for? Go tell them. I’ve given you a few keywords that may help you craft your response.

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New Survey: 8% Gay, 7% Lesbian

In what they are calling the “largest nationally representative study of sexual and sexual-health behaviors ever fielded,” a just-released survey commissioned by Indiana University says that 8% of adult American men self-identify as gay or bisexual, with 7% of women identifying as lesbian or bisexual. Those numbers are almost triple the percentages claimed by some anti-gay groups. ABC News takes …

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Atheists Know The Most About Religion

A survey testing Americans’ knowledge about the religions of the world showed that atheists and agnostics know more than professed believers. Interestingly, some of the questions most frequently answered incorrectly were about the responders’ own religions. Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn’t know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy …

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The Limit Of Happiness: $75,000

According to a Gallup survey mentioned in the Wall Street Journal, once you are making $75K/year, any further increases in your wealth don’t make you any happier. The study, which analyzed Gallup surveys of 450,000 Americans in 2008 and 2009, suggested that there were two forms of happiness: day-to-day contentment (emotional well-being) and overall “life assessment,” which means broader satisfaction …

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Most Gay-Friendly Colleges

An outfit called Campus Pride has issued their annual Campus Climate Index rating over 200 colleges for their friendliness to LGBT students. This year 19 schools received full five-star ratings. Note that only the schools that voluntarily returned their surveys were rated. In development since 2001, the Index has become a staple in student and faculty research, campus organizing efforts …

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Everywhere But Here

The percentage of people saying homosexuality is “never justifiable” is diving in all the countries surveyed. Including here, until starting around 2000, thanks to Karl Rove and the Bush II years. Still, I suppose we should at least by heartened by the overall change since the survey began. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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