Dispatches from The Bullet Points We Respect Department

• Number of seconds that the average American can wait for an elevator before becoming visibly agitated : 40

• Rank of “Education” among priorities of new parents: 1

• Average number of U.S. Public-schoolchildren per PTA member: 7

• Chance that U.S. parents require that children do their homework before watching TV: 1 in 12

• Rank of “listening to other students” among classroom activities that schoolchildren find the most boring : 1


Source: Harper's Index

Culled this and some other stats for a recent project. I left out all the sourcing here, but Harper's footnotes every stat in case you're not familiar with The Index.