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...fundamentalist Christians. But in the U.S. today, the average number of children per mom is about 2, compared with 2.5 in the 1970s. While 34.3% of married women ages 40 to 44 had four or more children in 1976, only 11.5% did in 2004, according to the Current Population Survey. Though factoring in affluence can be statistically tricky, an analysis by Steven Martin, associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, shows that the proportion of affluent families with four or more kids increased from 7% in 1991-96 to 11% in 1998-2004. Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor...
Nearly half of doctors may be more likely to protect their colleagues than their patients, according to a recent survey by researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital...
...study—funded by the Columbia-affiliated Institute on Medicine as a Profession—is the first national survey exploring attitudes and conduct related to medical professionalism, according to the authors...
...Institute of Politics (IOP) released the results of its 13th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service yesterday, revealing that presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani are the preferred candidates among the 18-24 age group. The online survey, which sought the opinions of 2,526 U.S. citizens, also reported that 36 percent of likely Republican voters and 18 percent of likely Democratic voters said they were “dissatisfied” with the choice of candidates for their party’s nomination. Thirty-seven percent...
...College, social science professor, paleontologist and, of course, the person responsible for squashing UC party grants. But for all the self-righteous outrage in the fallout of Pilbeam’s controversial decision earlier this fall, can Harvard students pick him out of a lineup? A recent survey says maybe, but don’t put your money on it. In a super-scientific poll conducted among 40 Harvard students in Annenberg Hall and Lamont Library Café, students were asked to choose from four photographs to identify the dean. After a grueling but fair selection process, Pilbeam?...