Monday, April 16, 2007

An interesting number

Evidently, Nevada ranks a solid and definite last-place in terms of the percentage of the population that volunteers time in some way, at 17.5%. Our neighbors to the East rank first, with just under 46%. It is likely that Nevada's number is inflated slightly by the resident Mormon population.

There could be some other interesting trends, but I want to pick over the full report before I leap to any conclusions.

3 comments:

Steve and Katrina said...

I am interested to find out what things they count as volunteer hours. Thanks for giving me something to read during class.

-Dave said...

You're welcome. Anything I can do to provide diversions. Side-note: how are things on the Purdue campus since the Virginia Tech shootings? Are people going about their business, or is it more subdued?

Steve and Katrina said...

It is being talked about but I think things are fairly subdued. The professor that I TA for knows the parents of one of the dead students so we talked about it a little bit.

It is crazy what happened. I have talked to my Korean friends about it and they hope that they don't get singled out because the shooter was Korean. I think most people will realize this.