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Number working in World Trade Center on average working day prior to 9/11: 50,000
Average number of daily visitors: 140,000
Number killed in attack on New York, in the Twin Towers and in aircraft that crashed into them: 2,823
Distance, in miles, from which the burning towers were visible: 20
Maximum heat of fires, in degrees fahrenheit, at World Trade Center site: 2,300
Number of days underground fires at World Trade Center continued to burn: 69
Number of days that workers dug up debris at Ground Zero, searching for body parts: 230
Number of body parts collected: 19,500
Number of bodies discovered intact: 291
Number of victims identified by New York medical examiner: 1,102
Number of death certificates issued without a body at request of victims’ families: 1,616
Number of people still classified as missing from the World Trade Center that day: 105
Number of people who died when American Airlines flight 11 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center: 92
Number of people who died when United Airlines flight 175 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center: 65
Number of people who died when United Airlines flight 93, from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania: 45
Number of people who died when American Airlines flight 77, from Washington to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon: 64
Number of peole killed in the Pentagon: 125
Number of survivors rescued from Ground Zero: 0
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How good are we at estimating other people's drunkenness? (BPS Reseach Digest)
Sloshed, trollied, hammered, plastered. We’ve done a sterling job of inventing words for the inebriated state, but when it comes to judging from their behaviour how much a person has drunk, we could do (a lot) better. That’s according to a review of the literature by US psychologist Steve Rubenzer.
We all have our trusted indices for judging other people’s drunkenness. Perhaps it’s when the eyeballs start floating about as if under the control of a clumsy puppeteer. Or maybe the effusive ‘you know I love you’ delivered with a trickle of dribble. However, the vast majority of studies find that lay people, police officers and bartenders are in fact hopeless at distinguishing a drunk person from a sober one, at least at moderate levels of intoxication. To take just one example, after watching drunk and sober people being interviewed and negotiating a stair case, bartenders rated them as slightly, moderately or very drunk with an accuracy of just 25 per cent…
