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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

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

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-cell anemia: 5.4

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

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

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-sex marriage: 3.12, 3.21

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