According to the US Census Bureau, there are 97.2 males for every 100 female in the USA.
In general Western states have the highest male to female ratios, while states in the Mid Atlantic and Deep South have more women than men. 39 states have more females than males, while 10 have more males. California is the only state with exactly one male for every female. Illinois exactly matches the national average with 97.2 males for every 100 female.
There are only 89.7 males for every 100 females in the District of Columbia this is far lower than any state. Rhode Island and Maryland both have 93.8 men for every 100 women, the fewest of any states.
At the other extreme, Alaska has 108 males for every female, the most of any state. Nevada comes in second with 103.8 males for every female.
Yes, he said there are 108 males to every female in Alaska. That's very hard to believe but I've never actually been to Alaska so I'll just over that one. But I HAVE been to Nevada. Lots of times -- And although I haven't had occasion to count, I can tell you that there are NOT 103.8 males for every female!
-- Edited by dqm either on Thursday 20th of September 2012 04:53:30 AM
I don't know who Bristol is but do you think he/she is happy they named a poop chart after him/her? I don't think I would want to be remembered for that. If it was between having a poop chart named for me or everyone forgetting me I would choose everyone forgetting me.
My curiousity was up, so I googled it, thinking for some reason the chart was a joke thought up by a plumbing company. Turns out it is a medical tool. From Wikipedia:
The Bristol stool scale or Bristol stool chart is a medical aid designed to classify the form of human faeces into seven categories. Sometimes referred to in the UK as the "Meyers scale",[1] it was developed by Dr. Ken Heaton at the University of Bristol and was first published in the Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology in 1997.[2] The authors of that paper concluded that the form of the stool is a useful surrogate measure of colon transit time. That conclusion has since been challenged as having limited validity, and only in types 1 and 2 when the subject is not constipated.[3] However, it remains in use as a research tool to evaluate the effectiveness of treatments for various diseases of the bowel, as well as a clinical communication aid
I was interested enough to go to the sources cited on Wiki and read them too. It would be a lot easier for most people to say to the doctor "Um, mine is usually a 4" than to have to describe it in detail.
I believe the stool chart is named after the University of Bristol, where it was developed.
Perhaps the individuals who created this chart, er, preferred to let the university take the honor of having a poop chart named after it.
I admit I have wondered about the reason for Bristol Palin's name, but then I'm always puzzled b naming girl babies after places. And why Bristol or Brooklyn but not, say, Liverpool or Omaha?
I haven't come across boys named after places but I am in the less fashionable Midwest so no doubt behind the times.
no offense taken even in the slightest. Now I'm wondering why you thought I was offended LOL!
Here are some boys that I know who have place names:
Mitchell (SD) his sister's name is Madison (SD) Austin (TX) Chad (Africa) Paris (France also from Mythology) I know both a boy and a girl with this name Orlando (FL) -I don't know him personally but I'm thinking Orlando Bloom Syndey (Australia) Israel -- Chandler (TX?) Jackson (MS) Lincoln (NE) Eugene (OR)
I also like the name Dutch for a boy although I don't personally know anyone with that name but I liked it from the original Predator movie.
dqm, I didn't think you were offended but didn't want you to think I disapprove of place names for girls, often they are very pretty names.
Other than Paris, I've met little boys with all the names you listed, but never thought of them as -place- names, though obviously they really are! Silly me
A funny note to this thread is that I was looking for male/female ratios the other day because of a conversation about Chinese birth rates. Some folks were positing that Chinese men would become violent due to a lack of women. But it looks like they got this one covered. Chinese hospitals are evidently providing a free public service to men who don't have women. Or is it to men who don't have hands?
A funny note to this thread is that I was looking for male/female ratios the other day because of a conversation about Chinese birth rates. Some folks were positing that Chinese men would become violent due to a lack of women. But it looks like they got this one covered. Chinese hospitals are evidently providing a free public service to men who don't have women. Or is it to men who don't have hands?
That depends on how much it costs to buy one for home use... I can't think of too many guys that would want to go to the hospital as their ONLY "non-handed" option...
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Today's submission doesn't count as 'weird' but it was too funny to pass up
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Does this look like a dorm room to anyone besides me? I wonder if college kids in "Kenia" know how to spell America. Or if properly educated Americans know the difference between -there- and -their- by the third grade.
LOL if you were going to post your picture on the Internet, while holding that sign, wouldn't you want to make sure all of you spelling is correct. You are talking about a "village idiot" and don't bother to proof read. At least when I screw up here I can take comfort in the fact that no one knows what I look like lol.
I keep wanting to make excuses for her. Maybe that's not a dorm room. I'm looking at the shorts thinking maybe she's at cheer camp but the text/note books on the desk and the amount of crap in the room belies that. But hey, at least she's cute. She has really nice teeth.