Issuepedia:Frequently Arising Questions

This is a place where questions of fact can be asked; as the answers become available, they will be recorded and catalogued (either here or on a separate page linked from here).

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• Sources Needed: facts and quotes to be verified
• Questions about site-related issues can be posted in the Issuepedia:Commons area.

Issues of Fact

Questions

• Why do U.S. schoolbuses stop at every house now? How large is this trend (just here in Durham, the whole U.S., worldwide, or what?)
• Statistics
  • Where to find global statistics about abortion rates vs. legality of abortion? "the rates of abortions in societies where abortions are legal and in societies where they are illegal are almost identical" according to this
  • Where to find statistics about the crime rate? (specifically in the U.S., but also worldwide)
  • Where to find statistics about drug use? (Derek Jennings, Independent Opinion column, 2005-10-19: "Current figures put white drug use at almost 75% of the total, yet black people still make up almost half the prisoners, despite being only around 12% of the general population."),
  • What are the statistics (fatality/injury rate) on the effect of air bags in automobile accidents? Why was it decided to make it illegal for the owner to disable airbags?
• How can it be that it is perfectly safe for a woman to walk alone through a park in Esfahan, Iran (a city of over 2 million) in the dead of night? (see [1])

Sources Found

• data about money in politics:
  • opensecrets.org (found 2006-07-07)
  • PoliticalMoneyLine (found 2006-07-07)
• Media Matters
• NewspaperARCHIVE.com
• Transport Demand Management Encyclopedia at the Victoria (BC, Canada) Transport Policy Institute
• NCFR Journal press releases: not searchable, and all PDFs... but has full text and data of significant family-related studies
• Overlawyered: "Chronicling the high cost of our legal system"
• Free Patents Online: patent database
• Human Security Report 2005: "documents a dramatic, but largely unknown, decline in the number of wars, genocides and human rights abuse over the past decade"
• See also snippets for miscellaneous useful-looking issue-related links
• Bartleby.com: "Great books online", including reference works such as the 2003 World Factbook and the The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, 2000
• Global Land Use Database
• BP Oil (look for "Reports and Publications") has a lot of detailed information on energy production