Brain Development

From http://www.joeallin.ca/early_years.html

By age 5, which of the following skills is in the least sensitive period? Hearing, Numbers, Emotional Control

Which skills are most sensitive at birth?

Which of the skills has its peak latest?

Credit Card Loyalty

From http://www.creditcardfinder.com.au/australian-consumer-credit-card-banking-survey-2009.html

What percentage of people in this survey had had their credit card from 1-3 years?

Approximately how many people had had their credit card for 11 years or more?

What was the most frequent response?

Snake Oil

 

From  http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ for full-size interactive version.

There is strong evidence that green tea can help with _____________________.

According to this chart, are ginseng or goji worth taking?

For which supplements is there strong evidence that they help with cholesterol?

Asteroid Discoveries

From http://oklo.org/2006/04/

About how many asteroids were discovered in 1985? In 2000?

Why do you think that asteroid discovery might have peaked around the year 2000 and then declined?

Asteroid Distance

From http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/stu/advanced/asteroid.html

About what distance from the Sun in A.U. is the greatest number of asteroids?

Are asteroids evenly distributed?

Approximately how many asteroids are there at 3.0 AU from the Sun?

Earthquake Energy

From http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/06/cbs_pulls_unvetted_story_blami.html

What was the anueal energy release in earthquakes in 1905? 1920? 1980? 2000?

Describe the meaning of the black line and the red areas.

Adult HIV prevalence in Africa between

20%-30%
10%-20%
5%-10%
1%-5%
0%-1%
data unavailable

From http://www.avert.org/history-aids-africa.htm

What trend do you see over time?

Which countries have the greatest rates of HIV infection?

Uganda is one of the only countries that has been able to lower its rate of HIV infection. Can you find it on this map?

Annual Deaths Attributable to Cigarette Smoking—United States, 2000–2004

From http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/health/attrdeaths/index.htm

How many deaths were there in this period from lung cancer?

How many deaths were there from stroke?

What are the leading causes of death for smokers?

Lyme Disease Incidence Rates by State, 2004-2008*

State	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Alabama	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.1
Alaska	0.5	0.6	0.4	1.5	0.9
Arizona	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0
Arkansas	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
California	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2
Colorado	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Connecticut	38.5	51.7	51.0	87.3	78.2
Delaware	40.8	76.7	56.5	82.7	88.4
District of Columbia	2.9	1.7	10.7	19.7	12.0
Florida	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.4
Georgia	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.4
Hawaii	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Idaho	0.4	0.1	0.5	0.6	0.3
Illinois	0.7	1.0	0.9	1.2	0.8
Indiana	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.9	0.7
Iowa	1.7	3.0	3.3	4.1	2.8
Kansas	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.6
Kentucky	0.4	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1
Louisiana	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1
Maine	17.1	18.7	25.6	40.2	59.2
Maryland	16.0	22.1	22.2	45.8	31.0
Massachusetts	23.9	36.3	22.2	46.3	60.9
Michigan	0.3	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.8
Minnesota	20.1	17.9	17.7	23.8	20.0
Mississippi	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
Missouri	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.1
Montana	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.4	0.6
Nebraska	0.1	0.1	0.6	0.4	0.4
Nevada	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.6	0.3
New Hampshire	17.4	20.3	46.9	68.1	92.0
New Jersey	31.0	38.6	27.9	36.1	37.0
New Mexico	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2
New York	26.5	28.8	23.1	21.6	29.5
North Carolina	1.4	0.6	0.4	0.6	0.2
North Dakota	0.0	0.5	1.1	1.9	1.2
Ohio	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.3
Oklahoma	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Oregon	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.5
Pennsylvania	32.1	34.6	26.1	32.1	30.7
Rhode Island	23.0	3.6	28.8	16.7	17.7
South Carolina	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.7	0.3
South Dakota	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.4
Tennessee	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.5	0.1
Texas	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.4	0.4
Utah	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.1
Vermont	8.0	8.7	16.8	22.2	53.1
Virginia	2.9	3.6	4.7	12.4	11.4
Washington	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3
West Virginia	2.1	3.4	1.5	4.6	6.6
Wisconsin	20.8	26.4	26.4	32.4	26.5
Wyoming	0.8	0.6	0.2	0.6	0.2
*incidence=confirmed cases per 100,000 persons, calculated using July 1st population estimates for each year

 From http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/ld_IncidenceRatesbyState20042008.htm

Use a chart or graph to represent some or all of the data. One way to start would be to only use states that had infections higher than 2.0.

Reported Cases of Lyme Disease by Year, United States, 1994-2008

From http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/ld_UpClimbLymeDis.htm

Describe the trend Lyme disease infections have been following.

When were some peaks of lyme disease outbreaks?

2007 Age-Adjusted Estimates of the Percentage of Adults who are Obese

From http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/DDT_STRS2/NationalDiabetesPrevalenceEstimates.aspx?mode=OBS

Which states have the highest rates of obesity?


Which states have the lowest rates of obesity?

Which states have no areas with rates higher than 27%?

Compare this map to yesterday's diabetes map. Where do you see correlation? Where do you see differences?

2007 Age-Adjusted Estimates of the Percentage of Adults with Diagnosed Diabetes

From http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/DDT_STRS2/NationalDiabetesPrevalenceEstimates.aspx?mode=DBT

Which states have the highest rates of diabetes?

Which states have the lowest rates of diabetes?

Compare Colorado to Florida.

Name 2 states that have no areas with rates higher than 8.8%

Deaths and Mortality

Look at the numbers below and make a graph or chart to show as much of the data as you can.

(Data are for the U.S.)

• Number of deaths: 2,426,264
• Death rate: 810.4 deaths per 100,000 population
• Life expectancy: 77.7years
• Infant Mortality rate: 6.69 deaths per 1,000 live births

Number of deaths for leading causes of death:

• Heart disease: 631,636
• Cancer: 559,888
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599
• Diabetes: 72,449
• Alzheimer's disease: 72,432
• Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326
• Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344
• Septicemia: 34,234

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2006, tables B, D, 7, 30

From http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

Chronic Disease Indicators

Go here http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/cdi/ and select two states and a category to compare. See what comes up, then make a graph or chart of the information you get. Here's an example I got comparing California and New York:

California compared with New York

Physical Activity and Nutrition
Indicator	Measure	California	New York
Fruit and vegetable consumption among adults aged >=18 years  - 2007  view definition	Prevalence (CI)	28.9% (27.3-30.5)	27.4% (25.9-28.9)
Fruit and vegetable consumption among youth  - 2007  view definition	Prevalence (CI)	-	-
Obesity among adults aged >= 18 years  - 2007  view definition	Prevalence (CI)	23.3% (21.7-24.9)	25.5% (24.1-26.9)
Overweight or obesity among adults aged >= 18 years  - 2007  view definition	Prevalence (CI)	59.0% (57.2-60.8)	62.0% (60.3-63.7)
Obesity among youth  - 2007  view definition	Prevalence (CI)	-	10.9% (9.9-12.1)
Recommended physical activity among adults aged >=18 years  - 2007  view definition	Prevalence (CI)	50.2% (48.3-52.1)	48.9% (47.2-50.6)
Recommended physical activity among youth  - 2007  view definition	Prevalence (CI)	-	38.0% (35.8-40.2)
Television viewing among youth  - 2007  view definition	Prevalence (CI)	-	35.3% (32.3-38.5)

Cervical Cancer

 

From http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/data/  

Which group has the highest incidence of cervical cancer?

Which group has the highest rate of death from cervical cancer?

Which group has the lowest incidence of cervical cancer?

Births and Natality

Make a graph to represent some or all of the following information:

• Number of births: 4,265,555
• Birth rate: 14.2 per 1,000 population
• Fertility rate: 68.5 births per 1000 women aged 15-44 years
• Percent born low birthweight: 8.3%
• Percent born preterm: 13%
• Percent unmarried: 38.5%
• Mean age at first birth: 25

From http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/births.htm

Prevalence of Arthritis by Age/Race/Gender

Make a graph to represent the following information:

Of persons aged 18–44, 7.9% (8.7 million) report doctor-diagnosed arthritis. Of persons aged 45–64, 29.3% (20.5 million) report doctor-diagnosed arthritis. Of persons aged 65+, 50.0% (17.2 million) report doctor-diagnosed arthritis.


28.3 million women and 18.1 million men report doctor-diagnosed arthritis.

3.1 million Hispanic adults report doctor-diagnosed arthritis.

4.6 million Non-Hispanic Blacks report doctor diagnosed arthritis.
An estimated 294,000 children under age 18 have some form of arthritis or rheumatic condition, this represents approximately 1 in every 250 children.


From http://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/data_statistics/arthritis_related_stats.htm

Prevalence of Specific Types of Arthritis

Make a graph to represent the following information:

The most common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis. Other common rheumatic conditions include gout, fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis.

An estimated 27 million adults had osteoarthritis in 2005.
An estimated 1.3 million adults were affected by rheumatoid arthritis in 2005.

An estimated 3.0 million adults had gout in 2005, and 6.1 million adults have ever had gout.

An estimated 5.0 million adults had fibromyalgia in 2005.

From http://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/data_statistics/arthritis_related_stats.htm

Complete Tooth Loss Declines Among U.S. Adults Aged 65-74

 

From http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nchs_for_you/older_americans.htm  

What trend does this graph show?

In 1971, about what percent of Americans aged 65-74 had lost all of their teeth?

Calories of Grains

From http://www.versagrain.com/whole-grain-list.html

Which grain has the fewest calories?

The most?

How many calories does quinoa have per 1/4 cup?

Houshold Expenses Over Time

 

From http://scienceblogs.com/transcript/2008/08/lets_talk_about_facts_this_ele_2.php  

In 1930, what was the greatest personal expense?

In 2007, what was the greatest personal expense?

In approximately which year did medical expenses overtake food expenses? Clothing and shoes?

Marriage Happiness

 

Percentage Very Happy by Parental and Marital Status

From http://pewsocialtrends.org/charts/?chartid=21&topicid=8

Are the married or unmarried parents generally happier?

Of the unmarried parents, which are the least happy?

Of the married couples, which are most happy?

California Maternal Mortality

Construct a graph to represent the following data from http://californiawatch.org/health-and-welfare/chart-tracking-maternal-mortality-rates

California’s maternal mortality rate has increased over an 11-year-period from 1996 through 2006, the most recent data available. The national maternal mortality rate was 13.3 per 100,000 in 2006.

Year	Rate per 100,000
1996	5.6
1997	9.1
1998	6.7
1999	7.7
2000	10.9
2001	9.7
2002	10.0
2003	14.6
2004	11.7
2005	11.7
2006	16.9

Chefs

 

From http://sanfrancisco.grubstreet.com/2009/07/understanding_french_laundrys.html

Who is in charge of the kitchen?

Who is in charge of cheese in the morning?

Who is Emily Smith's direct supervisor?

How many people does Devin Knell supervise?

H1N1 Mortalities by Age

From http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1FLU/surveillanceqa.htm

In which age group were H1N1 deaths most common?

In which age group were deaths least common?

Which age group made up about a quarter of the deaths?

Allergy Graph

From http://www.understandingfoodadditives.org/pages/Ch5p2-2.htm

What is the most common allergy on this graph?

Out of 1000 people in the UK, how many have sensitivity to food additives according to this graph?

What occurs at a rate of 80/1000?

Sleep Graph

From http://www.knowabouthealth.com/sleep-deprivation-hinders-cognitive-functions/

Who tends to get more sleep? Men or women?

Do more men or women sleep 6 hours per night?

What is the most common number of hours slept per night in this study?

Sleep Apnea

From http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/medicine/sleep-apnea.htm

How many breaths does the average sleeper take per minute?

How many breaths per minute does a person with sleep apnea take?

Which type of sleeper takes deeper breaths?