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Compared with children in Italy, children in the United States are about how likely to be on prescription antipsychotic medications such as Risperdal and Seroquel?
About 90 times as likely...
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What proportion of American kids 12 to 15 years of age meet minimum standards for physical fitness, based on their ability to walk and run?
42%
Over the past decade, rates of obesity have...
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In 1972, 5% of American children and adolescents were obese. In 2020, what proportion of American children and adolescents were obese?
19.7%
For the 1972 data, see Cheryl Fryar and...
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In 2021, what was the approximate female-to-male ratio among students who took the AP exam in Spanish Literature?
20 girls for every 10 boys
To be precise: 14,662 girls took the AP exam...
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Compared with a teenager in Germany, a teenager in the United States is about how likely to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder?
About forty times as likely
See Martin Holtmann and...
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In 1987, 34% of students who took the AP Computer Science exam were girls. What proportion of students who took the AP Computer Science exam in 2021 were girls?
25%
Or to be precise,...
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Compared with a teenager in the United Kingdom, a teenager in the United States is about how likely to be diagnosed with ADHD?
About 14 times as likely
The Centers for Disease Control...
