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Engineering Unemployment: How to Lie with Statistics

The rate of unemployment among engineers concerns engineers themselves, the engineering colleges, industry and the government. If the rate is low and a passing affair, then no action is needed: the situation will correct itself in a short time. If the rate is high and persists over a period of years, then organized...

Statistics for the People

Did you know that:

..... one $500,000,000 aircraft carrier equals 340 elementary schools.

..... one soldier on the front in Vietnam costs $90,000. That equals eleven teachers' annual salaries.

Statistics for the People

In 1969 major industrial polluters spent one billion dollars to advertise their efforts at pollution control-ten times more than all U.S. companies spent for air pollution control devices in the same period. (The Sciences, 1, no.1, Jan. 1971, New York Academy of Sciences) The U.S. has only 1.5 doctors per 1000...

Statistics for the People

Did you know that: .....It is estimated that one million illegal abortions are performed in the U.S. each year, as compared with 10,000 hospital abortions? (R.E. Hall, M.D., President of the Association for the Study of Abortion and Professor at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons) .....in New York City, no...

Statistics for the People

Did you know that: .....the Sunday edition of the New York Times, which consists mostly of advertising, consumes 150 acres of forest every week.