Lies, damn lies and statistics

There are a lot of information out there on the net for the data nerd but there are scattered and sometimes hard to find. I’ve just discovered (belatedly) Swivel, which is an interesting tool allowing users to upload their data and play around with others’ (other somehow similar resources I am aware of are Gapminder, Wolfram Alpha, IBM’s Many Eyes). Here are some interesting things I learned today from Swivel:

1. the Turks are the least faithful to their spouses followed by the Danes. The Israelis are the most faithful
2. there is more teenage pregnancy in more religious states in the US.
3. that 47% of Americans would disapprove if their child would want to marry an atheist (the disapproval rate is 33% in the case of a potential spouse who is muslim, 27% for African-Americans and 6% for conservative christians)
4. only 3% of Americans report themselves as atheists, as opposed to 81% of Vietnameses
5. based on data of pensioners from Boeing Aerospace, people who retire at around the age of 50 expect to live to age 86. Those who retire age 65 live to 67 only.
6. That internet users around the world google for the word “sex” far more often than the world “love,” except in the Philippines. But bloggers write far more often about love than about sex.