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Vietnam is the latest country to report an alarming skew towards boy babies, one that may lead to vast societal upheaval. This week, the United Nations Population Fund said that some 25,000 expected baby girls went "missing" - were not carried to term - in Vietnam last year. The implication is that some expectant parents are aborting unwanted girls once they learn the sex of the fetus through ultrasound technology. Government statistics and a separate U.N. survey in 2006 put the ratio of newborns at 110 boys to every 100 girls - higher than the "natural" rate of 105 to 107 boys...
...capita basis, MySpace has 4% more women visiting its site than Facebook. Facebook users tend to be more affluent, with its users skewing towards households earning over $60,000 per year, while MySpace users skew toward lower income levels, with 12% more of its users earning under $60,000 per year. Using the psychographic system Mosaic to track U.S. Internet users, it's clear that there's a class distinction between users of the two social networks. Facebook's most predominant group of visitors in Mosaic is "affluent suburbia," a group that Mosaic describes as "the wealthiest households...
...answer depends on what type of "other" search engine a user might gravitate to. There are meta-search properties that combine the search results from other engines - sites like Dogpile.com, MyWebSearch.com and Mamma.com. While the users of these kinds of sites skew female, the typical profile for meta-search engines is a less technically sophisticated user who tends to be 55 or older. Initially meta-search was a favorite of the tech-savvy user - in the early years of search, it wasn't uncommon to find drastically different results on the major sites, and meta-search engines served a very...
...professors situate the Israel lobby as just one lobby among a host of ethnic lobbies—something they did not do in the original article. The authors write that “ethnic lobbies representing Cuban Americans, Irish Americans, Armenian Americans, and Indian Americans have [also] managed to skew U.S. foreign policy in directions they favored...
...interesting facets of celebrity death-watchers is their unique demographic. Who searches for dead celebrities? The answer might surprise you. By examining the visitors to popular dead celebrity sight deadoraliveinfo.com we find that visitors to the site skew to male (71.2%), over 55 years of age (57.7%), living in suburbia (31.4%). Perhaps old guys in the burbs have more time to contemplate mortality...