Monday, Jun. 04, 2001
Numbers
By Ann Marie Bonardi, Amanda Bower, Lina Lofaro, Ellin Martens, Sora Song, Heather Won Tesoriero, Josh Tyrangiel and Rebecca Winters
100 Million Americans consult the Internet for health information
70 Percentage who say the information they find influences treatment decisions
34 Percentage of American parents who do not know all three pieces of the following information about their children: height, weight and eye color
358,600 Children are abducted each year, 4,600 of them by nonfamily members
80 Number of points potentially lost on a student's GMAT last year because of an error by the Educational Testing Service
970 Number of individual scores affected by the mistake
21 Percentage of vacationers who will take weekend trips instead of longer summer vacations
28 Percentage who attribute shorter trips to economic slowdown
43 Percentage who say they don't have time to get away this summer
Sources: California HealthCare Foundation; National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; Progressive.com New York Times