• “Cat people” prefer Diet Coke; “dog people” prefer Mountain Dew. [Pets, Opinion] (Civic Science; phone: 412-559-9032)
• Half (50%) of Twitter users view tweets on their mobile devices, and 40% post via mobile. [Social Networking, Telecommunications] (Kleiner Perkins; phone: 650-233-2750)
• On a typical day, children and teens (ages 8-18) spend an hour and 45 minutes doing physical activity and seven hours and 38 minutes using media. [Youth, Mass Media] (Kaiser Family Foundation; phone: 650-854-9400)
• More than half (51%) of school teachers avoid doing certain types of projects with their classes because they dread having to clean up afterwards. [Education] (Procter & Gamble; phone: 513-983-1100)
• 84% of high school students who get good grades (As and Bs) say their homes smell pleasant (clean, lemony, etc.); 34% of students who earn Cs or below say their homes smell unpleasant (urine, mold, etc.). [Youth, Home/Housing] (Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation for The Clorox Company; phone: 312-938-1047)
• 71% of consumers know that their online behavior may be tracked, but only 40% realize that this tracking is anonymous. [Online] (Knowledge Networks; 650-289-2000)
• More than one fifth of married women (21%) earned at least $5,000 more than their husbands in 2010. [Family, Finance] (U.S. Census Bureau; phone: 301-763-3030)
• Patients who stay in hospitals during February are less satisfied with their hospital experience than those who stay at other times of the year. [Healthcare/Medical] (Press Ganey Associates; phone: 574-232-3387)
• More than two thirds of U.S. adults (68%) are overweight or obese. [Diet/Weight Loss/Nutrition] (National Center for Health Statistics; phone: 301-458-4000)
• Fewer than one third of U.S. adults (32%) have been advised by their doctors to lose weight. [Diet/Weight Loss/Nutrition, Healthcare/Medical] (Harris Interactive; phone: 301-458-4000)
• Americans who live in West Virginia are most likely to be obese (34%); those in Colorado are least likely (20%). [Diet/Weight Loss/Nutrition] (Gallup; phone: 202-715-3030)
• Households that include children spend an average of $138.90 on groceries per week; households without children spend $82.80. [Food/Beverages, Family] (Food Marketing Institute; phone: 202-452-8444)
• The average American will consume 20,000 potatoes over the course of a lifetime. [Food/Beverages] (National Geographic; phone: 202-857-7027)
• U.S. adults spend an average of 75 minutes per day eating and/or drinking; French adults spend more than two hours. [Food/Beverages] (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; phone: 202-785-6323)
• More than half of unmarried African American women (52%) in relationships want to marry their current partners; 42% of African American men want to marry theirs. [Relationships, Emerging Majorities] (Ebony magazine; phone: 312-322-9200)
• 46% of consumers eat chocolate ice cream at least once a month. [Food/Beverages] (Technomic; phone: 312-876-0004)
• The average parent-teacher conference lasts 20 minutes. [Education, Family] (Family Education Network; phone: 617-671-2000)
• 46% of Americans feel that two children is the ideal family size; 26% say three, 9% say four, and 3% say zero. [Family] (Pew Research Center; phone: 202-419-4300)
• 28% of teens have sent text messages while driving; 35% of teens who have their own cars have done so. [Automotive, Youth] (AAA; phone: 516-873-2364)
• Of U.S. residents who have worked for the military in the past five years, 69% are Non-Hispanic White, 14% are Black, 11% are Hispanic, and 3% are Asian. [Workforce/Employment, Emerging Majorities] (Pew Hispanic Center; phone: 202-419-3600; calculations by Research Alert)
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