Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Introduction Americans are shoppers. On the typical day, Americans spend an average of 24 minutes purchasing goods and services – a figure that doesn’t include any time spent traveling to a place to shop.[2. numoffset=”2″ American Time Use Survey, available online at: http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/household.htm.] This is more than people spend relaxing and thinking (19 minutes per […]
Worries about the security of the online shopping inhibit the use of cyberspace for shopping transactions
Introduction This section discusses in greater detail some of the major datasets identified by the speakers and their limitations. Problems with these datasets fall into two principal categories: inappropriate and inconsistent definitions; and limitations, bias, and error arising from multiple sources. These problems result in misuse of terms and affect coverage, availability, and reliability of […]
Washington, D.C. In the Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation decision in June 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult for courts to enforce the Establishment Clause’s restrictions on government funding of religion. In Hein, the high court ruled that unless a legislative body has specifically directed funding to a religious organization or […]
The workshop on broadband metrics that is discussed here was held in June 2006, and in light of recent events, was either prescient or instrumental in helping to mobilize wider support for improving the state of our collective public knowledge of broadband networks. In May 2007, Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), with a number […]