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Selected Harper’s Index search returns for ‘music’
(For those of you who haven’t yet experienced the magic of searching the Harper’s Index, it goes like this: Enter search term. Get stats.)
- Chances that a harpist has back problems: 3 in 4
- Chances that a member of the thrash-metal band Anthrax lives with his parents: 2 in 5
- Number of the 12 employees at Hawaii’s last ukulele factory who are hearing-impaired: 5
- Pairs of jeans that Frank Sinatra has ever owned in his life: 0
- Number of CAT scans a Minneapolis radiologist performed last year on violins: 10
- Number of Grateful Dead concerts attended by columnist Ann Coulter: 67
- Minimum number of songs sold on Apple’s online music store that consist entirely of silence: 291 (As of 2005)
- Percentage of Britons who cannot name the city that provides the setting for the musical Chicago: 65
- Chances that a hip-hop fan has had five or more sexual partners in the last five years, according to a U.K. study: 2 in 5. Chance that a country-music fan has: 1 in 67
(all stats from Harper’s Index)
Note to self: less Neil Young, more Public Enemy.