"Surveys. We've got surveys . . . "

In 2004, according to a Quinnipiac poll, 37 percent of [New York's] residents supported allowing same-sex couples to wed. This year, 58 percent of them did.

The Reality-Based Community

. . . according to a National Opinion Research study, the most representative survey suggests that sixteen per cent of married people have had a sexual partner other than their spouse while married. In any given year just three and a half per cent have had an extra marital partner. [For the arithmetically challenged among us, those percentages mean that 5 out of 6 married people have never cheated and that in any given year 32 out of 33 married people don't cheat.]

"The Public on the Private,"
"The Talk of the Town,"
The New Yorker, June 27, 2011, p. 24

The [Energy Information Administration] has found that fewer than 4 percent of households with central air turn it off during the workday when no one is home.

America: In All Things