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Impact of Age on “Women and Children First” Norm During Disasters
In the previous post, In Life and Death Situations Does the Norm “Women and Children First” Hold?, I summarized research indicating women do not have a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters. After reading the study I began to … Continue reading
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Tagged age, disasters, gender, logistic regression, mortality, social norm, survival, women and children first
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The Influence of Educational Attainment, Occupational Status, Sex, Age and Race on Personal Income – Part II
Yesterday I presented a multiple regression analysis of the influence of educational attainment, occupational standing, sex, age and race on total personal income. Today I will summarize the results of a multivariate logistic regression on the probability of earning an above … Continue reading
The Influence of Educational Attainment, Occupational Status, Sex, Age and Race on Personal Income – Part I
Part I -The Influence of Educational Attainment, Occupational Status, Sex, Age and Race on Personal Income What accounts for the variance in personal income? To provide an answer I downloaded the recent IPUMS dataset (2011) with the following variables: personal income, … Continue reading
46.3 Million Americans on Food Stamps! Odds and Probabilities of Receiving Food Stamps
Wow! 46.3 Million People in U.S. Receive Food Stamps! The following graph, depicting 46.3 million people in the U.S. receiving food stamps, motivated my interest to identify odds and probabilities of receiving food stamps. To identify the odds and probabilities … Continue reading
Predicting “Could Not See a Doctor Because of Cost”
Many months ago my wife and I were served our meal in a local restaurant by a woman who was our waitress on several other occasions. It was very noticeable she had acquired a severe limp since we last saw … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Health, Inequality, Socio-economic Status
Tagged age, educational achievement, gender, health, income, inequality
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Happiness – It Helps by Getting Older, Being Female, Having Money, Being Married, Being Healthy, and Being Other than Black or White
During my ‘working years’ I couldn’t help observe the common everyday observation that some people appear to happy while other people appear to be unhappy. You can never be sure of course, but over a sufficient period of time one … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Happiness, Health, Higher Education, Socio-economic Status
Tagged age, education, gender, happiness, health, marriage, race, real personal income, SES, socio-economic status
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Predicting “Sex Frequency = Not at All”
I was working on the computer today with a ‘talk show’ television program acting as noise in the background. One comment from the noise box caught my attention. A statistic was quoted about the relatively high percent of people who … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Higher Education, Secondary Education, Uncategorized
Tagged abstinence, age, education, gender, multinomial logistic regression, race, sex frequency
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The Corrosive Impact of Aging on Income
The relationship between real personal income and age is U-shaped. For the majority of Americans real personal income, adjusted for inflation, rises with age, then levels off and finally falls with each passing year. I ran a regression equation of … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Gender, Higher Education, Secondary Education
Tagged age, education, gender, income, race
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Factors that Influence Adult Exercise: Education, Gender, Age, Drinking, Smoking, Weight and General Health
There’s little doubt about the relationship between exercise and health. But what factors influence one to exercise? To help understand what might influence the positive choice to exercise I downloaded the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) database, an ongoing … Continue reading
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Tagged age, drinking, education, exercise, gender, health, logistic regression, odds, probabilities, smoking, weight
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Who Scores Higher in Self-Assessed Risk-Taking? Males or Females?
There’s a gold mine of data be to be analyzed from the downloaded data (site) I utilized in the post, Odds and Probabilities of Having a Written Will. Recall the survey was limited to people aged 44 to 98 in … Continue reading
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Tagged age, demographic variables, education, gender, race, risk-taking, Social Security
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