For Every 100 Girls

Image by nataliej via FlickrFascinating post that someone linked to on Twitter (forgot to write down the source). Well, more of a series of statistics than an article, but well organized. The post is entitled “For Every 100 Girls“. By using a variety of sources, the author determined what the ratio is between males and females across a variety of situations. They put it in a standard form, saying “For every 100 girls that did XXX, there are XXXXX guys that did the same.”

Just a few samples for you:

For every 100 girls diagnosed with a special education disability 217 boys are diagnosed with a special education disability.
For every 100 girls diagnosed with emotional disturbance 324 boys are diagnosed with emotional disturbance
For every 100 girls with multiple disabilities 189 boys have multiple disabilities
For every 100 women enrolled in college there are 77 men enrolled.
For every 100 American women who earn a masterís degree from college 62 American men earn the same degree.
For every 100 females ages 20 to 24 that commit suicide 624 males of the same age kill themselves.
For every 100 women ages 18 to 21 in correctional facilities there are 1430 men behind bars.

Definitely something to chew on. Statistics being what they are, I’m sure someone could pull together an equally shocking report from the opposite perspective, but clearly we need to be diagnosing more women with emotional disturbances and putting them in correction facilities

Seriously though, it does make you wonder how we could address some of these issues in schools and attempt to be more proactive in dealing with them.

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10/29/2008

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Brian Mull
10/29/2008

Thanks for clarifying the problem.

As they say, you can make statistics say anything.

Robert Rowe
10/29/2008

We still teach the genders differently throughout grade/high schools, but with stats like that, you have to wonder if we’re helping or hurting.

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dave kootman
10/31/2008

I love the last line Steve! “clearly we need to be diagnosing more women with emotional disturbances and putting them in correction facilities ”

Did you know that 92% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

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11/3/2008

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