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Agricultural, biological, and environmental sciences
Acid rain: 15.22
Beavers: 15.17
Brain weight of mammals: II.11, II.12, II.13, II.14, II.15, II.16
CO2 Emissions: 9.21
Coral reefs: 14.26
Corn: 6.26, 14.34
Deer population: 9.11
Environmental problems: 3.16
Fossils: 14.3, 14.4; 15.1, 15.3, 15.5; 14.21, 15.1, 15.40
Genetics: III.21
Horse pregnancy: 13.17
Lake levels: 11.4; 11.12
Land use: 18.10
Manatees: 14.12, 14.14, 15.11, 15.13
Mice: 14.10, 22.35
Pigs: 21.8, 22.12
Population dynamics: 19.21, 20.17, 20.19
Pythons: 24.13, 24.24
Rats: 15.24
Sharks: IV.25, IV.27
Snakes: II.9, II.10
Soil: 9.25
Toxic releases: 16.11
Water quality: IV.23
Arts and humanities
Authorship and writing style: 11.16, 12.20
Shakespeare: 11.5
Business, economics, finance, and management
Car sales: 9.5
Company failure: 3.39
Currency: 10.20
Discrimination in lending: 24.8
Federal budget: 15.4; 15.46
Fraud: 9.4
Gold: II.23
Higher education: 10.17
Income: 12.9, 12.10, 12.11, 12.16
Insurance: 20.20
Investment strategies: 15, 23; 12.5; 14.31, II.29, III.8
Job applicants: 8.19
Job training: 8.25
Minimum wage: 16.24
Money markets: 10.31
Personal savings: 21.5
Retail prices: 10.15, 10.34, 11.7, 16.12, 16.13, 16.19, 16.22, 16.27, 16.28, 16.39, 16.40, II.21, II.22
Stocks: 9.12, 9.19, 10.8; 9.33, I.25, 11.11, 12.18, 13.32
Wall Street: 3.38
Demographics and population characteristics
Accidental deaths: 10.30
Advertising: 10.6
Age: 9.11, 11.1, 11.2, 11.6; 11.9, 11.20, 11.24, 12.13, 15.28, IV.7
Asians: 11.18
Best place to live: 8.36
Births: 17; 22.32
College majors: 10.16
Color blindness: 23.16
Computer use: 21.6, 22.5, 22.20, 22.23, 22.29
Convention attendance: 3.13
Crime: 21.42
Death rates: 17.3; 14.19, 14.23, 14.25, 18.9
Drug abuse: 10.29
Economic class: 18.8
Education: 14.36, III.10
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Gender and faculty: 24; 24.27
Graduation rates: 24.1; 24.2
Head size: II.6
Height: 13.2; 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.20, 13.21, 13.22, 13.23, 13.34
Household size: 20.1, 20.21
Housing: 14.11, 15.39, II.27
Human pregnancy: 22.4; 13.15
Illegal aliens: 10.28
Immigrants: 12.21, 12.22
Income: 9.14, 12.3, 16.4; 9.28, 9.29, 9.31, 16.2, 16.26, 16.33, II.20, 22.9
Languages: III.13
Marital status: 18.1; 4.11, 9.26, I.26, 10.11, 17.18
Minorities and degrees: 11.10, 12.19
Motor vehicle ownership: 20.3
Murder: 10.14
Obesity: 11.14
Poverty: 9.20, 10.2, 16.32, II.1, II.3, II.5
Race on the census form: 1.2
Response time: 22.36
Salaries: IV.22
Socioeconomic status: 23.12
Telephone survey: 3.11
Television viewing: 22.4
Unemployment: 8.3, 8.10; 3.8, 8.8, 10.23, 21.31, 22.17
Unmarried: 10.7
Education and child development
ACT: 13.3, 13.4; 21.35
Academic good standing: 9.3
Achievement tests: 8.5
Adult literacy: 22.30
Charter schools: 2.8
Child care: 24.26
Classes: 3.5, 9.7
College admissions: 18.25
College rankings: 9; 9.3
College tuition: 11.3; 12.12, 16.9, 16.23, 16.25, 16.38, III.14
Day care: 6.6
Degrees: 10.1, 10.2; 10.19
Dropouts: II.3
Financial aid: 4.28
Foreign language: III.11
Grades: 11.6, 14.37, III.3, III.5, III.6, 24.1, 24.2
Graduation rates: 10.9; 22.19, 22.22, 23.25, 24.15
Improving public education: 5.18
NAEP: 21.7; 3.27
Online learning: 5.1; 4.33, 5.15
Performance: 5.12, 5.13, 5.14, 15.27, 15.31, 15.34, 15.36, 18.13, 19.13, 19.15
Public library use: 3.7
Reading comprehension: 13.8
SAT: 14; 8.2, 8.7, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7; 12.23, 12.27, 12.38, 13.3, 13.26, 13.27, 13.28, 13.29, 15.10, 15.12, II.7, IV.28; 8
Scholarships: 3.14
Teacher engagement: 21.11
Teaching methods: 1.2, 5.1, 5.24, 6.24
Test scores: 9.6
Food science and nutrition
Fruit and vegetable consumption: 21
Hot dogs and calories: 11.19, 12.17, 12.29, 14.13, 14.15
Organic food labeling: 21.29
Seafood: 1.11
Soda consumption: 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 21.5
Taste testing: 22.1, 22.3
Time spent eating/drinking: 22.5
Manufacturing, marketing, and consumer behavior
Advertising: 6.10, 9.10, 10.5; 6.4, 6.5, 9.9, 9.10, 10.12
Best place to work: 8.32
Car color: IV.4
Cell phone returns: 8.10
CD sales: 10.13
Credit card fees: 21.38, 21.40, 22.38
Customer satisfaction: 3.3, 4.13
Earphones: 8.31
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Energy conservation: 5.5; 5.17
Google surveys: 2.30
Nielsen TV ratings and market research: 1.6
Package design: 6.23, 23.15
Popular restaurants: 8.2
Pricing: 6.20
Product specifications: 3.9
Sales: 20.14
Spending: 23.27
Taste tests: 6.21
Tipping: 22.39
Medicine and public health
Acne: 6.10
AIDS and HIV: 7.18, 7.29, 7.30, 7.31, 9.4
Alcohol: 1.20, 3.6, I.22, 21.19, 21.43, IV.2, IV.4, IV.17
Alternative medicine and supplements: 6.15
Anesthetics: 5.29
Appendicitis: I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19
Asbestos: 17.9
Aspirin and heart attacks: 5.11
Astrology: 23.4
Blood pressure: 5.27, 21.3, 21.36
Blood sample: 12.30
Blood types: III.2, III.4, 23.17
Body temperature: 13; 13.1; 22.16
Bone loss: 5.28
Caffeine: 6
Cancer: 17.7; 5.16, 8.18, 22.11
Childhood vaccinations: 3; 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5; 3.18
Cholesterol: 1.19, 13.25
Cirrhosis of the liver: II.8
Confidentiality: 7.19, 7.20, 7.21, 7.24
Crohn’s disease: 5.3
Death rate: 17.30
Depression: 6.9
Diabetes: 22.10
Drug addiction: 24.3, 24.4, 24.5
Effect of treatments: 8.1; 23.14
Emergency personnel: 15.30
Emotional intensity: 1.5, 1.6
Ethics: 7.4; 7.4, 7.28, 7.40
Experiments on animals: 7.45
Fake data: 9.6, 9.8
Flu: 6.18
Health and wealth: 14.2; 15.33
Health care cost: 3.19, 5.20, 21.16, IV.9, IV.14, IV.29
Health care quality: 6.30
Heart disease: 9.13, 24.6; 5.7, 5.8, 5.23, 6.19, 15.15, 15.18, 15.20, 15.29, 15.32, 15.42, II.24
HMO: 21.30
Informed consent: 7.2; 7.2, 7.25, 7.41
Insect repellants: 6.9
Life expectancy: 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Marijuana use: 8.3
Minorities and clinical trials: 6.3
Missing details in published research: 7.1
Obesity: 6.4, 6.8; 5.9, 5.10, 6.12, 8.13, 15.9
Pain: 6.17, 8.17
Placebo effect: 6.2, 7.5, 7.6; 6.16, 6.31
Power lines and leukemia in children: 1.3; 1.17, 1.25
Public health care: 3.15
Pulse rate: 13.6, 13.7, 22.7; II.6
Religion and health: 15.38
Schizophrenia: 23.20
Sickle-
Side effects: 22.31
Sleep: 13.24
Smoking: 5.31, 6.6, 24.11, 24.12, 24.16, 24.21, 24.23, IV.10, IV.12, IV.20
Smoking ban: 3.4
Stress and heart attacks: 24.25
Strokes: 6.13
Sunburn: 6.14
Surgery: 7.27
Teenagers and sexual activity: 7.36
Teenagers and sleep: 1.16
Transplants: 19.5
Treating prostate disease: 1.18, 5.26
Treatment effectiveness: 23.2
Treatment of patients: 5.7, 6.7
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Ulcers: IV.30
Vaccinations: 2.5, 18.3
Weight: 5.25, 15.35, 23.1
Physical sciences
Big bang: 14.1
Buffon’s needle: 19.31
Carbon dating: 22.13
Climate change: 5; 14.18, 14.22, 15.14, 15.41
Lightning: 11.8
Rainfall: 11.23, 14.33
Space shuttle: 17.20
Sunspots: 10.24
Time: 8.9
Psychology, religion, and human behavior
Anxiety: 21.7
Astrology: 24.9, 24.22
Belief in God: 3.32
Blogging: 7.39
Bullying: 5.6; 1.21
Church attendance: 22.8, 22.15, IV.15
Civil disturbances: 10.18
Crime: 9.17
Domestic violence: 7.8
Drugs: 6.8
Effect of wording on response: 4.6, 4.16, 4.17, 4.18
Emotions: 5.19, 5.21
ESP: 20.18, 22.28, 23.13
Ethics: 7; 7.17, 7.26, 7.44
Gender: I.11
Gifts: 22.14
Happiness: 23.10
Honesty: 7.37, 7.38, IV.5, IV.18
Informed consent: 7.13, 7.14, 7.15, 7.16
Institutional review boards: 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 7.42
Intelligence: 8.8; 8.15, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Internet use: 23.26
IQ: 8.6, 8.30; 9.27, 13.12, 13.13, 13.14, 13.19, 13.30, 13.31, 13.35, III.15, III.17, III.19, 21.34, 22.3
Library use: 21.13, 21.28
Parenting: 4.12
Perception: 22.21, 22.24
Perception of chance: 17.4, 17.8; 17.1, 17.28, 17.32, 20.12, 20.13; III.2, III.5
Personality: 8.11; I.23
Personal space: 7.7
Political party affiliation: 22.18
Profiling: 2.25
Promiscuity: 9.22
Race relations: 4.15
Recycling: 1.1; 1.10, 4.1, 9.5
Religion: 10.5
Sexual assault: 5.2
Sexual behavior: 22.40
Smartphones: I.10
Smell: IV.24, IV.26
Social networking: 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 24.7, 24.8
Student attitudes: 22; 23.1; 21.9, 22.34
Suicide: 9.12
Television poll: 23.8
Texting: 13
Time alone: 3.25, 3.26
Trash: 9.13
Truthfulness: 4.24
Public policy and political science
Abortion: 3.33, 4.39
Age discrimination: 19.2
American Community Survey: 4.4
Capital punishment: 1.12, 3.28, 8.14
Census: 1.7
Closed and open questions: 4.23
Confidentiality: 7.23
Crime: 8.27, 8.28, 16.36, III.16, III.18, 21.14, IV.1, IV.3, IV.16
Current Population Survey: 1.5, 4.7; 3.37
Disaster relief: 9.7
Effect of race on response: 4.3
Ethics: 7.22, 7.32, 7.33, 7.34, 7.35, 7.43
Firearm violence: 24.14
Gender gap and political parties: 1.13
General Social Survey: 1.7; 16.35
Guns: 21.12, 21.15, 21.27
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Immigration: 18.20, 18.22
Income gap: 4.22, 4.31
Jury pools: 24.19
Justice department and phone records: 4.5
Legalizing drugs: 1, 2; 1.1, 23.11
Mall interviews: 2.1
Military spending: II.5
Online polls: 4.10; 4
Police: 1.3, 1.4
Political parties: 19.8, 19.10
Presidential election: 15.2; 2.10, 15.16, II.28
Presidents: 18.11, 19.11
Public opinion polls: 1.4; 1.24
Same-
Satisfaction with the economy: 4.21
Taxes: 4.6, 10.3, 10.4, 10.10; 10.1
Telephone surveys: 4; 4.1, 4.2, 4.9; 2.14, 2.15, 4.14, IV.11, IV.13, IV.21, IV.31
Texting survey: 2.23
Voting: 3.6; 3.1, 3.2, 3.10, 3.22, 3.29, 4.25
Wealth: 21.21
Welfare: 1.8, 6.11; IV.8
Sports and leisure
Ann Landers poll: 2.11
Baseball: 4.10, 23.2
Baseball batting: 13.18, 17.27
Baseball home runs: 12.1, 12.2, 12.4; 11.21, 11.22, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.40
Baseball salaries: 16; 12.6, 16.3; 1.9, 11.15, 12.15, 12.24, 16.1, 16.16, 16.21
Baseball stadium food: 14.32, 15.3
Baseball World Series: 17.16
Basketball: 17.23, 17.25, 19.16, 19.17, 20.2, 20.31, III.22, 24.20
Boston Marathon: 10.32
Coin tossing: 23.3
Craps: 19.23
Dear Abby poll: 2.2
Football: 2.9
Football quarterbacks: II.2, II.4
Gambling: 18.4, 18.5; 18.2, 19.20, 20.24, 20.28, 21.1, 21.2; III.1
Golf: 14.38, 16.20
Horse racing: 19
Hot hand: 17.5; 19.29
Jogging: 21.23
Keno: 20.15
Lottery: 20; 17.6, 20.1, 20.2; 10.9, 10.10, 17.22, 17.24, 20.8, 20.9, 20.10, 20.29
M&M’s: 18.18
Poker: 17.14, 17.35, 19.32, III.9
Roulette: 17.29, 18.17, 20.11, IV.6
Soccer salaries: 23.9
Super Bowl: 18; 18.27, 18.29
Television: I.12
Video games: 24.3
Weightlifting: 11.1, 24.10
Transportation
Airplane safety: 18.21, 18.23, 19.22
Airport delays: 9.15
Bike riding: 21.4
Boating safety: 9.30
Car sales: 10.25, 10.26, 10.27
Driver fatigue: 8.1
Drunk driving and traffic fatalities: 5.22, 9.8
Flight delays: 24.18
Gas mileage: 1.8, 11.13, 12.14, 12.28, 12.33, 14.24, 15.19
Gas price: 16.1; I.24, 16.8, 16.10
Highways: 9.24
Highway safety: 8.2, 8.4; 8.37
Lights: 6.11
Medical helicopters: 24.7
Miles driven: 9.16
Motorcycles: 21.22, 21.24
Seatbelts: 8.11
Speeding: 22.33
Traffic accidents and fatalities: 9.23, 17.17, 17.31
Traffic flow: 2.12