The Census publishes a module on disability reaching back to 1850. During the 1800’s, the categories of disability included deaf and dumb, idiotic, and insane–labels that have since given way to contemporary categories such as cognitive difficulty and independent living difficulty. According to the Census description, insanity means: The term Insanity applies to individuals who […]
Month: January 2021
Glassdoor.com is a website for prospective employees to look for jobs as well as a portal for finding reviews of companies. It also includes a section for interviewees to comment on the interview process and report on the interview questions they were asked during the interview. I focused on collecting all the interview questions for […]
Indeed.com is a portal for finding jobs and employee evaluations of what it is like to work for a particular company. I examined three years worth of reviews for Target in New York City, New York. I analyzed 118 total reviews–covering the time period between February 12, 2018 to December 19, 2020. The reviews for […]
The Covid pandeminc spread to Hawaii in March 2020. The timeline of the response to Covid began with a refusal to allow a cruise ship disembark on March 19, 2020. On that same day, the mayor of Honolulu announced the closure of parks and instituted a 15-day ban of dining-in at restaurants and bars. On […]
This post begins with a simple graph that shows that the percent of people, particularly teens, who have texted or e-mailed while driving increases with age. Chart 1, below, shows the trend line. At the ages of 14 and 15, when most teens begin acquiring learner’s permits and restricted licenses, the percent of them who […]