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But unfortunately, I have to inform you that in 2007, a very inspired NYU Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four percent, were non-white.
It's why we have a dropout rate of roughly 25 percent overall and almost 50 percent of our minority population living in low-income areas, because they're not getting the gift of a good start.
It's not as many percent as the number of women we've just elected to Congress, so that's good.
Fifty-six percent of the parliamentarians are women, which is fantastic, and there's also within the national constitution now, you're actually not allowed to say Hutu or Tutsi.
Even people who say they speak English, only 14 percent pass.
Over 85 percent of abusers are men, and domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships, in other words, in families, the last place we would want or expect to find violence, which is one reason domestic abuse is so confusing.
Over 70 percent of domestic violence murders happen after the victim has ended the relationship, after she's gotten out, because then the abuser has nothing left to lose.
And after a team of professional science editors went over this really simple explanation, they'd find fault with almost every word I've used, and they'd have to change anything that wasn't serious enough, and they'd have to change everything that wasn't 100 percent perfect.
If this was a war with two disparate sides, I, by default, fell on team gay, because I certainly wasn't 100 percent straight.
And I basically decided to photograph anyone in this country that was not 100 percent straight, which, if you don't know, is a limitless number of people.
My aim is to take a simple portrait of anyone who's anything other than 100 percent straight or feels like they fall in the LGBTQ spectrum in any way.
At some point I added a question to the release form that asked people to quantify themselves on a scale of one to 100 percent gay.
Once they got over the shock, though, by and large people opted for somewhere between 70 to 95 percent or the 3 to 20 percent marks.
Of course, there were lots of people who opted for a 100 percent one or the other, but I found that a much larger proportion of people identified as something that was much more nuanced.
Women won 17.5 percent of the National Congress in the first elections ever in 52 years.
The average growth of our economy is about 15 percent for the past five years.
The interesting part is that we continue to grow 15 percent every year for the past five years without water.
We import 90 percent of our food, and we only cultivate less than one percent of our land.
To the first question, 63 percent of people said yes, we like it.
Fewer than six percent of women my age have made it beyond high school, and had my family not been so committed to my education, I would be one of them.
In our latest assessment in 2009, we measured 74 school systems that together cover 87 percent of the economy.
Spending per student only explains about, well, less than 20 percent of the performance variation among countries, and Luxembourg, for example, the most expensive system, doesn't do particularly well.
We spent a lot less on education, about 35 percent less on education.
You've seen Finland doing so well on PISA, but what makes Finland so impressive is that only five percent of the performance variation amongst students lies between schools.
And the links represent the shareholding relations, so shareholder A has x percent of the shares in company B.
So you have a periphery and a center which contains about 75 percent of all the players, and in the center, there's this tiny but dominant core which is made up of highly interconnected companies.
36 percent of the TNCs are in the core only, but they make up 95 percent of the total operating revenue of all TNCs.
If you have more than 50 percent of the shares in a company, you get control, but usually, it depends on the relative distribution of shares.
Well, it turns out that the 737 top shareholders have the potential to collectively control 80 percent of the TNCs' value.
Now remember, we started out with 600,000 nodes, so these 737 top players make up a bit more than 0.1 percent.
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