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Holding steady is the three to two male/female ratio in the GSAS. The male/female ratio is three to one in the natural sciences, while in the humanities the sexes are nearly balanced...
...ideological power. The West may find it "difficult to promote and defend liberty . . .Western nations ((could)) no longer shape either the political agenda, the culture or the direction of the global community." Moreover, Wattenberg writes, the tide of Third World immigrants to the U.S., combined with the lower ratio of white births to domestic black and Hispanic births, may reduce the proportion of European-descended stock in this country from the present 80% to 60% by 2080. The upshot could be social "divisiveness and turmoil." All of which, he believes, raises the key question: "Over time, will Western values prevail...
Most researchers do agree on a few things. During the first several months, babies appear to do best when tended to by one person, ideally a parent. For toddlers in day care, the ratio of children to adults is very important, and should be about 3 to 1. The size of the group may be even more critical. Two- year-olds do poorly in groups of more than...
...about 95% as long as the thigh bone, indicating that the arms dangled to the knees, much as they do in apes. Thus Homo habilis closely resembled Australopithecus afarensis, of which the best-known example is the famed "Lucy" skeleton, which was discovered by Johanson in 1974. Lucy's ratio is 85%; in modern humans, the figure is about...
...Huntington. The main objection raised by the zealous Lang and his supporters: an allegedly specious use of mathematics in Huntington's work to quantify unquantifiable material. For example, Lang cites a passage in the best-known of Huntington's dozen books, Political Order in Changing Societies, in which the ratio of aspiration to % satisfaction was examined in 62 countries. "The overall correlation between frustration and instability," Huntington wrote, "was 0.50." Says Lang: "This is utter nonsense. How does Huntington measure things like social frustration? Does he have a social-frustration meter? I object to the academy's certifying as science...